Notes of Cases in the Ecclesiastical & Maritime Courts: Easter Term 1841 to [Easter Term 1850], Issue 70, Volume 6

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Page 679 - The above instrument, consisting of one sheet, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said 0 ohn Forsythe, as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
Page 620 - So, for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's Predestination, is a most dangerous downfal, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into desperation, or into wretchlessness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation.
Page 555 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the asid Ann Elizabeth Irvine, as and for her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at her request, and in her presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page 678 - Illinois, of the age of sixty-one years, and being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this my last will and testament in the manner following, that is to say...
Page 355 - ... the testament of the dead, and if there be nothing due from him to us, all the chattels shall go to the use of the dead, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares.
Page 240 - What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty...
Page 679 - Testament, in witness whereof I, the said Maurice Baum Senr, have to this my last Will and Testament Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.
Page 358 - ... recover, as executors, the debts due to the said person intestate, in the King's Court, for to administer and dispend for the soul of the dead...
Page 360 - C 202), no doubt was ever suggested, as to the right of the Crown, in case of intestacy. The great doubt was, whether a trust could be raised for the Crown, by implication, and whether the legacies given to the executors, which would have excluded them from taking the residue, in a contest with next of kin, would have the same effect, in a contest with the Crown.
Page 52 - January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and that every will re-executed or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the same shall be so re-executed, republished, or revived...

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