Results: 28

• McCormick v Grogan

  23 Apr 1869 LR 4 HL 82, HL

  Subsequent considerations : 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 13.
  WILL — Trust.
  THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord Hatherley) stated the facts, and then said:— It is averred by the Appellant that Mr. Grogan having been so informed of the letter as well as of the will, he acted in such a manner as to bring himself within the operation of the rule which has been long established in Equity, that a person apparently taking property by devise or bequest from a testator with this knowledge of the existence of another instrument, which he actually or impliedly undertakes to carry into effect, will be fixed as trustee with the performance of such instructions and
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  WILL — Trust.

• Secretary Of State For India v W Elphinstone Underwood

  20 May 1870 LR 4 HL 580, HL

  PENSION — Madras civil service fund — Excess
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  PENSION — Madras civil service fund — Excess — Refund — Power of Directors and of Subscribers.

• Dolphin v Aylward

  10 Mar 1870 LR 4 HL 486, HL

  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Life estate — Inheritance
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  ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Life estate — Inheritance — Mortgages — Marshalling.

• Mostyn v Brooke

  23 Jul 1866 LR 4 HL 304, HL

• Gann v Johnson

  24 Jun 1869 LR 4 HL 265, HL

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  LORD CHELMSFORD:— We cannot import into one case facts which appear in another. We can only deal with the facts as they appear within the four corners of the record in each case. LORD CHELMSFORD:— It is precisely the same as that formerly decided in this House, and must follow its fate.
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  PRACTICE

• Collingwood v Stanhope

  09 Mar 1869 LR 4 HL 43, HL

  SETTLEMENT — Shifting clause — “Eldest Son” when ascertained.
  THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord Hatherley):— My Lords, although I ought to regret, and do regret, that I should occasion, by an error committed in my decision in the Court below, inconvenience and expense to the parties concerned in the present appeal, yet I am bound to say that upon hearing the very able arguments which have been addressed to your Lordships on both sides, I have come to the conclusion that upon the second branch of the case I undoubtedly was led into error, by not sufficiently adverting to the distinction which manifestly exists between a case of this description
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  SETTLEMENT — Shifting clause — “Eldest Son” when ascertained.

• In Committee for Privileges, Wiltes Claim of Peerage

  04 May 1869 LR 4 HL 126, HL

  PEERAGE — Limitation — Previous Decision in another Case
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  PEERAGE — Limitation — Previous Decision in another Case — Practice.

• Lister v Perryman

  09 May 1870 LR 4 HL 521, HL

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  EVIDENCE — Reasonable and probable cause.
  THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord Hatherley), having stated the nature of the case, and the general purport of the evidence, His Lordship, referring to the meeting between the Plaintiff Hinton and Robinson, said:— I will read the very words used in the special case. They are these: “According to the evidence of the Plaintiff, Hinton said to Perryman, ‘There is a row about master's gun.’ The Plaintiff asked what it was about, and Hinton said he heard from Robinson he had seen the rifle in Plaintiff's barn. Plaintiff denied that the rifle had been there, and asked Hinton and Robinson to
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  EVIDENCE — Reasonable and probable cause.

• Massy v Rowen

  16 Jul 1869 LR 4 HL 288, HL

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — “sole” — Will
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  WILL — “sole” — Will — Technical Words.

• The Duke Of Newcastle v Robert Morris

  07 Jul 1870 LR 4 HL 661, HL

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  STATUTE — Bankruptcy — Non-Trader
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  STATUTE — Bankruptcy — Non-Trader — Privilege of Parliament.