Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 3

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Page 349 - ... the institutions for charitable and benevolent purposes, established or to be established in the city of Glasgow or...
Page 217 - Contract or Agreement for Transfer of Property in such Ship or Vessel, shall be made by Bill of Sale or Instrument in Writing, containing such Recital as prescribed by the said recited Act,
Page 335 - Leith, to attach the effects of the debtor, as in the hands of a person out of Scotland, shall not be held to have interpelled such person from paying to the original creditor, unless proof be made that he, or those having authority to act for him, were previously in the knowledge of such arrestment having been so used.
Page 451 - Society shall appoint, and shall pay, out of the Estates, Assets, or Effects of such Person, all Sums of Money remaining due which such Person received by virtue of his or her said Office, before any of his or her other Debts are paid or satisfied; and all such Assets, Estates, and Effects shall be bound to the Payment and Discharge thereof accordingly.
Page 570 - ... and shall not be removed or removable into any court of law, or restrained or restrainable by the injunction of any court of equity...
Page 121 - And bringing the whole grain which shall grow upon the said lands, ' and other stuff and corn they shall happen to grind, to the town of ' Glasgow's milns, and grind the same thereat, seed and horse-corn
Page 454 - ... said proceeds to and for the use of any person or persons I shall name ' by any writing under my hand...
Page 501 - Killigrew his heirs and assigns from time to time to act plays and entertainments of the stage of all sorts peaceably and quietly without the impeachment or impediment of any person or persons whatsoever for the honest recreation of such as shall desire to see the same.
Page 257 - If an action be raised against one co-obligant ' before the lapse of six years, the bill will be sustained against all the ' rest for forty years ; but if not till after the six years have expired, the ' only question will then be whether the debt be proved. By the lapse '' of six years, all the privileges and effects of the bill are lost ; and it is ' the debt, and not the bill, which must be proved by the writ or oath of ' the debtor ; but the writ or oath of each debtor can only affect himself....
Page 336 - ... a bequest to trustees in the widest terms, giving them the largest discretion in distributing certain funds among the charitable and benevolent institutions in the city of Glasgow, was sustained both by the Court of Session and the House of Lords. Lord Balgray said, " The whole case depended on the point, whether it was lawful for a testator to put the disposal of his property at the will and discretion of another ? He thought it was.

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