Results: 88

• Hawes v Draeger

  17 Mar 1883 23 ChD 173, Ch D

  WILL — Bequest to children of c. equally — Non-access of Husband and Wife
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  WILL — Bequest to children of c. equally — Non-access of Husband and Wife — Illegitimacy — Evidence — Presumption of Legitimacy rebutted.

• In Re William Phillips’ Insurance

  26 Feb 1883 23 ChD 235, CA

  TRUST — Customs annuity and benevolent fund — Power of Subscriber to bequeath Sum assured.
  BACON, V.C.:— The argument on behalf of the Petitioners has been that inasmuch as there was no nomination by this testator in his lifetime, admitted by the directors, therefore the will is inoperative as to this fund. I do not accept that argument. If I rightly understand the policy on which the Act of Parliament proceeded it was this. The Legislature thought it right to encourage a saving by the servants employed in the Customs, and that being so, there is a plain provision that the benefit secured by the insurance shall as to one-third of it go to the
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  TRUST — Customs annuity and benevolent fund — Power of Subscriber to bequeath Sum assured.
• In re Leslie; Leslie v French

  20 Apr 1883 23 ChD 552, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  INSURANCE — Policy of life insurance — Payment of Premiums by Stranger or Part Owner
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  INSURANCE — Policy of life insurance — Payment of Premiums by Stranger or Part Owner — Lien — Salvage.

• In Re Carriage Co-Operative Supply Association, Ex Parte Clemence

  12 Feb 1883 23 ChD 154, Ch D

  COMPANY — Winding-up — Landlord
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  COMPANY — Winding-up — Landlord — Distress for Rent — Companies Act, 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 89), ss. 85, 163 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xiv. pp. 222, 238].

  1 Statute considered

• Mostyn v Lancaster

  09 May 1883 23 ChD 583, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  TENANT FOR LIFE — Leasing Powers — Charge on Inheritance
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  TENANT FOR LIFE — Leasing Powers — Charge on Inheritance — Mortgagor and Mortgagee — Consolidation — Coal Workings — Removal of Pillars — Injunction.

• Robinson v Ommanney

  17 Mar 1883 23 ChD 285, CA

  COVENANT — Covenant not to revoke will — Restraint of Marriage
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  COVENANT — Covenant not to revoke will — Restraint of Marriage — Contingent Liability — Proof in Bankruptcy — Covenant ancillary to Mortgage — Discharge.

• In Re Milford Docks Co

  03 Feb 1883 23 ChD 292, Ch D

  COMPANY — Winding-up — Companies Act, 1862, ss. 80, 82 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xiv. pp. 220, 221]
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  COMPANY — Winding-up — Companies Act, 1862, ss. 80, 82 [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xiv. pp. 220, 221] — Petitioning Creditor's Debt — Lands Act, 1845.

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Byron’s Charity

  06 Apr 1883 23 ChD 171, Ch D

  PRACTICE — Interim Investment — Charity
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  PRACTICE — Interim Investment — Charity — Settled Land Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 38), ss. 21, 32.

  1 Statute considered

• Attorney-General v Vestry Of Bermondsey

  09 Feb 1883 23 ChD 60, CA

  RATING — Vestry — Improper Expenditure of Rates
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  RATING — Vestry — Improper Expenditure of Rates — Injunction — Vestrymen made Parties for purpose of Costs — Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120) [Revised Ed. Statutes, vol. xii. p. 658].

  1 Statute considered

• Wheelwright v Walker

  02 Jun 1883 23 ChD 752, Ch D

  SETTLED LAND — Settled land act, 1882 (45 & 46 vict. c. 38) — Will made in 1834 creating Trust for Sale by Trustees after Death of Tenant for Life
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  SETTLED LAND — Settled land act, 1882 (45 & 46 vict. c. 38) — Will made in 1834 creating Trust for Sale by Trustees after Death of Tenant for Life — Sale of Property by the Reversioner in 1880 — Notice under sect. 45 by Tenant for Life to Trustees of Settlement — Power of Tenant for Life to sell the Fee Simple.

  1 Statute considered