The Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery and Practice in the Master's Office: With an Appendix of Precedents

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Gould and Banks, 1824 - Equity pleading and procedure - 437 pages

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Page 370 - America, to -which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly, and severally, by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this day of , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety . Whereas, lately at the term, AD 189 — , of 'the court of the United States for the...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Page 91 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal; and interest is to be Computed on the balance, as aforesaid.
Page 372 - Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 388 - ... to have and to hold the said premises with all and singular the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever...
Page 388 - Together with all and singular the rights, members, privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining. To have and to hold all and singular...
Page 366 - Pickens, his executors, or assigns : for which payment well and truly to be made We bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seal. Dated the Ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such, that if the above...
Page 115 - The cases cited apply only where there are accounts regularly stated between the parties, in which case there is an implied contract on the part of the debtor to pay ; and all contracts to pay, undoubtedly, give a right to interest from the time when the principal ought to be paid.
Page 388 - In witness whereof, the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Page 402 - Justice wheresoever the said Court shall then be, there to answer to us, as well touching a contempt which he it is alleged hath committed against us, as also such other matters as shall be then and there laid to his charge, and further to perform and abide such order as our said Court shall make in this behalf, and hereof fail not, and bring this writ with you.

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