The Student's Guide to the Law and Practice of the Courts of Probate and Divorce: Especially Designed for the Use of Candidates for the Final and Honours Examinations of the Incorporated Law Society and Forming a Complete Examination Digest of the Subjects to which it Relates |
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Page 96 - Court may from time to time, before making its final decree, make such interim orders, and may make such provision in the final decree, as it may deem just and proper with respect to the custody, maintenance, and education of the children...
Page 6 - ... at, or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be apparent on the face of the will, that the testator intended to give effect, by such his signature, to the writing signed as his will...
Page 96 - The court after a final decree of nullity of marriage or dissolution of marriage may inquire into the existence of ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlements made on the parties whose marriage is the subject of the decree, and may make such orders with reference to the application of the whole or a portion of the property settled either for the benefit of the children of the marriage or of their respective parents as to the court shall seem fit.
Page 12 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 141 - ... days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of such service, you do cause an appearance to be entered for you in our court of...
Page 5 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it 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...
Page 111 - ... no witness in any proceeding, whether a party to the suit or not, shall be liable to be asked or bound to answer any question tending to show that he or she has been guilty of adultery, unless such witness shall have already given evidence in the same proceeding in disproof of his or her alleged adultery.
Page 6 - ... testimonium clause, or of the clause of attestation, or shall follow, or be after or under the clause of attestation...
Page 99 - ... an order to protect any money or property she may acquire by her own lawful industry, and property which she may become possessed of, after such desertion, against her husband or his creditors, or any person claiming under him...
Page 139 - CD executor and residuary legatee in trust [or as the case may be~\. Now I, the said CD, do hereby declare that I have not intermeddled in the personal property of the deceased, and will not hereafter intermeddle therein, with intent to defraud creditors or any person interested in the administration or distribution of the property of the deceased ; and further do hereby expressly renounce all right to probate of the said will...