The Legal Observer, Digest, and Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 38

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Spettigue and Farrance, 1849
 

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Page 90 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say), it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 327 - Act, for the doing of any act, or for any other purpose, the same shall be reckoned...
Page 357 - ... shall receive upon any such security or attachment more than a rateable part of such debt, except in respect of any execution or extent served and levied by seizure upon, or any mortgage of or lien upon any part of the property of such bankrupt, before the bankruptcy...
Page 37 - Viet. c. 99. s. 2. enacts 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 304 - By leaving the same at the usual or last known place of abode of such person as aforesaid, or by forwarding the same by post in a...
Page 356 - ... committed; provided the person or persons so dealing with such bankrupt, or at whose suit or on whose account such execution or attachment shall have issued, had not at the time of such contract, dealing, or transaction, or at the time of executing or levying such execution or attachment, notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...
Page 250 - Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the accountant-general of the court of Chancery...
Page 377 - And be it enacted, that upon any appeal to any court of general or " quarter sessions of the peace the court before whom the same shall be brought may, " if it think fit, order and direct the party or parties against whom the same shall be " decided to pay to the other party or parties such costs and charges as may to such " court appear just and reasonable...
Page 12 - In all cases in which the plaintiff has a joint and several demand against several persons, either as principals or sureties, it shall not be necessary to bring before the Court, as parties to a suit concerning such demand, all the persons liable thereto ; but the plaintiff may proceed against one or more of the persons severally liable.
Page 325 - ... that he had no intent to conceal the state of his affairs or to defeat the law : 10.

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