Results: 110

• In Re Hodges’ Legacy

  25 Apr 1873 LR 16 Eq 92, Equity

  WILL — Condition Precedent — Non-compliance
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  WILL — Condition Precedent — Non-compliance — Gift over.

• Mckewan v Sanderson (No 2)

  03 Jul 1873 LR 16 Eq 316, Equity

  PRACTICE — Plea overruled — Leave to answer
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  PRACTICE — Plea overruled — Leave to answer — Second Plea with Answer.

• Cooper v Macdonald

  03 Jun 1873 LR 16 Eq 258, Equity

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — Construction — Preferential Trusts
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  WILL — Construction — Preferential Trusts — Rule against Multiplication of Charges — Double Portions — Ademption — Provision for Daughter — Payment to Husband of Daughter — Gift over, on failure of Issue of Child, to other Children then living — Stirpital Construction — “Child then living” held to mean “Child who or whose Issue should be then living.”

• In Re United Ports and General Insurance Co (No 1)

  21 Jun 1873 LR 16 Eq 354, Equity

  COMPANY — Transfer of Business — Novation.
  SIR JAMES BACON, V.C.:— The ground upon which this claim is mainly resisted is, that there was no consideration between the claimant, Mr. Evens, and the United Ports Company; and if that could be established, and if it were necessary to inquire into the consideration — if it was reduced, in short, to the case of a mere nudum pactum, then of course no legal right could be founded upon it. The Statute of Frauds requires that an engagement to pay the debts of another should be in writing, and that the consideration should be stated, but the Mercantile Law
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  COMPANY — Transfer of Business — Novation.

• Bloomer v Union Coal and Iron Co

  09 Jul 1873 LR 16 Eq 383, Equity

  COMPANY — Borrowing Powers — Mortgage of Book Debts.
  SIR JAMES BACON, V.C.:— Book debts are property of the company. The demurrer must be overruled.
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  COMPANY — Borrowing Powers — Mortgage of Book Debts.

• Freke v Lord Carbery

  03 Jul 1873 LR 16 Eq 461, Equity

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  WILL — Trust for Accumulation — Thellusson Act (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 98)
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  WILL — Trust for Accumulation — Thellusson Act (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 98) — Bequest of Leasehold — Foreign Domicil — Lex loci rei sitæ.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Wight’s Mortgage Trust

  18 Apr 1873 LR 16 Eq 41, Equity

  MORTGAGE — Registered and unregistered mortgages — Priority of Charges
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  MORTGAGE — Registered and unregistered mortgages — Priority of Charges — Yorkshire Registry Act (5 Anne, c. 18).

  1 Statute considered

• Baron De Worms v Mellier

  04 Aug 1873 LR 16 Eq 554, Equity

  INJUNCTION — Injunction to restrain action — Contract for Work
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  INJUNCTION — Injunction to restrain action — Contract for Work — Architect's Certificate — Jurisdiction — Similar Defence at Law and in Equity.

• Raine v Wilson

  01 Aug 1873 LR 16 Eq 576, Equity

  PRACTICE — Substituted Service — Lunatic Defendant not so found by Inquisition.
  The VICE-CHANCELLOR allowed substituted service on the medical officer of the asylum.
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  PRACTICE — Substituted Service — Lunatic Defendant not so found by Inquisition.
• Gillam v Taylor

  26 Jun 1873 LR 16 Eq 581, Equity

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 2.
  CHARITY — Perpetuity — Gift to Descendants as they may need
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  CHARITY — Perpetuity — Gift to Descendants as they may need — Solicitor and Client — Costs — Attorney-General.