Ruling Cases, Volume 25Robert Campbell Stevens, 1901 - Annotations and citations (Law) |
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... Parliament ; it is our duty to construe it , and then to apply it to the circumstances of the case brought under our consideration . The object of this Act clearly was to create powers of sale in many cases in which previously no power ...
... Parliament ; it is our duty to construe it , and then to apply it to the circumstances of the case brought under our consideration . The object of this Act clearly was to create powers of sale in many cases in which previously no power ...
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... Parliament for that purpose . In the present case the testator appears to have had an estate encumbered to the extent of between £ 80,000 and £ 90,000 , and producing an income of something between £ 4000 and £ 5000 . He devises the ...
... Parliament for that purpose . In the present case the testator appears to have had an estate encumbered to the extent of between £ 80,000 and £ 90,000 , and producing an income of something between £ 4000 and £ 5000 . He devises the ...
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... Parliament . I think , therefore , assuming even that Colonel Grey would not be entitled under the 2nd section ( and I am disposed to think that he would ) to exercise the power of sale , he is clearly entitled to exercise it under sect ...
... Parliament . I think , therefore , assuming even that Colonel Grey would not be entitled under the 2nd section ( and I am disposed to think that he would ) to exercise the power of sale , he is clearly entitled to exercise it under sect ...
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... Parliament , but you must look at the settlement which gives him his title . Looking at that , I think he comes strictly within the words of the Act , and it appears to me , therefore , that he has the power given by the Act to a tenant ...
... Parliament , but you must look at the settlement which gives him his title . Looking at that , I think he comes strictly within the words of the Act , and it appears to me , therefore , that he has the power given by the Act to a tenant ...
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... Parliament a narrow construction , and certainly I have never attempted to put a narrow construction on this Act . From this decision Mr. H. B. T. Strangways appealed . The appeal was heard on the 19th of November , 1886 . Cookson ...
... Parliament a narrow construction , and certainly I have never attempted to put a narrow construction on this Act . From this decision Mr. H. B. T. Strangways appealed . The appeal was heard on the 19th of November , 1886 . Cookson ...
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Page 271 - ... upon terms of paying the then value (exclusive of any allowance for past or future profits of the undertaking, or any compensation for compulsory sale, or other consideration whatsoever) of the tramway; and all lands, buildings, works, materials, and plant of the promoters suitable to and used by them for the purposes of their undertaking...
Page 454 - ... shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 202 - A man is not to sell his own goods under the pretense that they are the goods of another man; he cannot be permitted to practice such a deception, nor to use the means which contribute to that end. He cannot, therefore, be allowed to use names, marks, letters, or other indicia, by which he may induce purchasers to believe that the goods which he is selling are the manufacture of another person.
Page 675 - I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Sarah Barry for and during the term of her natural life...
Page 463 - ... and I give all the rest of my household furniture, books, linen, and china (except as hereinafter mentioned), goods, chattels, estate, and effects, of what nature or kind soever, and wheresoever the same shall be at the time of my decease, unto the said /•' and C., their executors, administrators, and assigns...
Page 396 - For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein...
Page 247 - A word or words having no direct reference to the character or quality of the goods, and not being according to its ordinary signification a geographical name or a surname; 5.
Page 337 - Hilary term, 1823, a verdict was found for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion of the court upon the following case...
Page 244 - ... some persons only ; which expositions have always been founded upon the intent of the legislature, which they have collected sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of the legislature, which they have always taken according to the necessity of the matter and according to that which is consonant to reason and good discretion.
Page 660 - To the use of the said Lionel Colmore and his assigns, for and during the term of his natural life...