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The New Practice of the Court of Chancery Charles Stewart Drewry,Great Britain No preview available - 2016 |
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16 Vict 9 Hare admissible affidavit alleged allowed amend answer application appointed attend Beav bill or claim cause certificate cestuis que trust chambers chief clerk Clerk of Records commenced by bill counsel Court of Chancery creditors cross-examination decree or order defendant defendant's solicitor demurrer direct documents enrolled entitled evidence examination executor facts filed further George James Turner give heard hearing House of Lords infant injunction inquiries interest interrogatories issue judge judge's Lord Chancellor matter mortgagee ne exeat notice of motion obtained office copy oral order of course original paid party pay the costs payment petition of appeal plaintiff plaintiff's solicitor plea proceedings production question receiver Records and Writs reference refused respect Rolls rule security for costs served signed subpoena suit summons taken taxation testator thereof think fit tion trustees usual Vice-Chancellor witness writ of summons
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Page 105 - That on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence...
Page 109 - Act, 1851 («), s. 14 of which enacts that " whenever any book or other document is of such a public nature as to be admissible in evidence on its mere production from the proper custody, and no statute exists which renders its contents provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof, or extract therefrom, shall be admissible in evidence in any court of justice...
Page 353 - ... in the plaintiff's claim mentioned : And it is ordered, that it be referred to the...
Page 238 - ... questions, and the court shall have power to deal with the costs of incompetent, immaterial, or irrelevant depositions, or parts of them, as may be just.
Page 251 - No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a merely declaratory judgment or order is sought thereby, and the court may make binding declarations of right whether any consequential relief is or could be claimed or not.
Page 108 - All proclamations, treaties, and other acts of state of any foreign state or of any British colony, and all judgments, decrees, orders, and other judicial proceedings of any court of justice in any foreign state or in any British colony, and all affidavits, pleadings, and other legal documents filed or deposited in any...
Page 345 - We command you, That within eight 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...
Page 350 - Reasons therein contained], it is ordered, That it be referred to the Master of this Court in rotation to take an Account of the...
Page 105 - ... the parties thereto, and the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other proceeding may be brought or defended, shall, except as hereinafter excepted, be competent and compellable to give evidence, either vivd voce or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on behalf of either or any of the parties to the said suit, action, or other proceeding.
Page 30 - ... in the first and second parts of the first schedule hereto. 2. I object to produce the said documents set forth in the second part of the said first schedule hereto.