A Treatise on the Statute of Frauds: As it Regards Declarations in Trust, Contracts, Surrenders, Conveyances, and the Execution and Proof of Wills and Codicils. To which is Prefixed a Systematic Dissertation Upon the Admissibility of Parol and Extrinsic Evidence, to Explain and Controul Written Instruments |
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... heirs ; upon this fine the judge can- not make a question of any matter of law ; but now the party comes and avers in fact , and says , that A. had two sons , named William , an elder and a younger , and that his intent was to levy the ...
... heirs ; upon this fine the judge can- not make a question of any matter of law ; but now the party comes and avers in fact , and says , that A. had two sons , named William , an elder and a younger , and that his intent was to levy the ...
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... heir at law . After the jury had found that there was no mistake in the name , the question of course lay wholly between Mary Thomas and the heir at law , or , in other words , the only consideration which remained was , whether the ...
... heir at law . After the jury had found that there was no mistake in the name , the question of course lay wholly between Mary Thomas and the heir at law , or , in other words , the only consideration which remained was , whether the ...
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... heirs of his mother's side , for ever ; and the question was , who should be entitled to the residue of the rents and profits ; whether the heir of the mother's father , or the heir of the mother's mother : here the court looked beyond ...
... heirs of his mother's side , for ever ; and the question was , who should be entitled to the residue of the rents and profits ; whether the heir of the mother's father , or the heir of the mother's mother : here the court looked beyond ...
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... heirs of the mother's " side " being a description properly applica- [ 30 ] ble , in the first place , to the heir of the mother's father ; never- theless , as we have seen , the court gave the estate to the heir of the mother's mother ...
... heirs of the mother's " side " being a description properly applica- [ 30 ] ble , in the first place , to the heir of the mother's father ; never- theless , as we have seen , the court gave the estate to the heir of the mother's mother ...
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... heir cannot claim . ( Vide the cases in 2 P. Wms . 174 , note by the editor . ) If Lord Thur- low had rested his decision entirely on that doctrine , independently of the evidence produced to show an act of election in the testator ...
... heir cannot claim . ( Vide the cases in 2 P. Wms . 174 , note by the editor . ) If Lord Thur- low had rested his decision entirely on that doctrine , independently of the evidence produced to show an act of election in the testator ...
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Page 222 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 134 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 91 - June all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 134 - ... or any interest in or concerning them; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Page 250 - That all leases, estates, interests of freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest, of, in, to or out of any messuages, manors, &c. made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parol, and not put in writing, and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorised by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 316 - Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony ; such, for instance, as the general rules of inheritance; and of protection from personal injuries.
Page 134 - g reements (1677) no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 250 - Except nevertheless all leases not exceeding the term of three years from the making thereof, whereupon the rent reserved to the landlord, during such term, shall amount unto two third parts at the least of the full improved value of the thing demised.