Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Cottenham, with a Few in the Time of the Lords Commissioners, and of Sir C. C. Pepys, Master of the Rolls, Volume 4

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Page xix - Lord (a), or at any time afterwards, or over which the said CD on the said day of (a), or at any time afterwards, had any disposing power, which he might, without the assent of any other person, exercise for his own benefit...
Page xviii - Court, and according to the statute in such case made and provided, chose to be delivered to him all the goods and chattels of the said CD in your bailiwick, except his oxen and beasts of the plough, and also all such lands, tenements, rectories, tithes, rents, and hereditaments...
Page x - VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith. To the Sheriff of greeting. WE COMMAND you that of the goods and chattels of CD in your bailiwick, you cause to be made the sum of...
Page ix - Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith. To the Sheriff of , greeting. We command you that of the goods and chattels of CD, in your bailiwick, you cause to be made the sum of...
Page xix - AB, by a reasonable price and extent, all the goods and chattels of the said CD in your bailiwick, except his oxen and beasts of the plough...
Page xiii - CD on the said day of or at any time afterwards had any disposing power which he might without the assent of any other person exercise for his own benefit, to hold to him the said goods and chattels as his proper goods and chattels, and to hold the said lands, tenements, rectories, tithes, rents, and hereditaments respectively, according to the nature and tenure thereof, to him and to his assigns, until the said two several sums of /. and /., together with interest upon the said sum of /., at the...
Page xii - ... and required to do in this behalf, and in what manner you shall have executed this our writ, make appear to us in our said court immediately after the execution thereof, and have there then this writ.
Page ix - ... and that you have that money and interest before us in our said Court immediately after the execution hereof, to be paid to the said AB, in pursuance of the said judgment [or order, as the case may be].
Page x - And in what manner you shall have executed this our writ make appear to us in our Court aforesaid, immediately after the execution...
Page 142 - I think it the duty of this court to adapt its practice and course of proceeding to the existing state of society, and not by too strict an adherence to forms and rules, established under different circumstances, to decline to administer justice, and to enforce rights, for which there is no other remedy.

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