Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Brougham and Sir John Leach, Master of the Rolls, Volume 1

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Page 653 - ... such land for the space of twenty-eight days next after a proper deed for making such conveyance shall have been tendered for his execution by, or by an agent duly authorized by, any person entitled to require the same...
Page 159 - ... and give this Act and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this Act...
Page 566 - Smyth have made and duly executed my last will and testament in writing bearing date the 14th day of February 1876.
Page 641 - Ellen (if any) who being a son or sons should attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter or daughters should attain that age or be married, in equal shares as tenants in common, and if there should be but one such child, the whole to be in trust for that one child.
Page 661 - That if any Bankrupt shall, before the issuing of the Commission, have contracted any Debt payable upon a Contingency which shall not have happened before the issuing of such Commission, the Person with whom such Debt has been contracted may, if he think fit, apply to the Commissioners to set a Value upon such Debt, who are hereby required to ascertain the Value thereof, and to admit such Person to prove the Amount so ascertained...
Page 377 - Council, who directed a case to be stated for the opinion of the Court of King's Bench, who refused to receive it in that shape.
Page 526 - ... shall be valid, notwithstanding any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...
Page 102 - If touching matters that come within the ordinary scope of professional employment they receive a communication in their professional capacity, either from a client or on his account, and for his benefit, in the transaction of his business, or which amounts to the same thing, if they commit to paper in the course of their employment on his behalf, matters which they...
Page 690 - Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to...
Page xii - The service of a subpoena shall be effected by delivering, a copy of the writ, and of the indorsement thereon, and at the same time producing the original writ.

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