Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Volume 5W.T. Clarke, 1847 |
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aforesaid alleged Appellant Appellant's appointed attorney Bailiff and Jurats bill Bombay bona vacantia Cape Breton cargo cause Charter circumstances claim Codicil Colonial Bank contract County Palatine Court of Equity Cowie creditor criminal Crown Darlot debt deceased declared decree Defendants Dewar Duchy Dunstone DYKE Earl of Chester Ecclesiastical entitled evidence execution executors Fairclough Godrich GORDON Governor grant Guernsey Horsfall intestate Jamaica John Jones Judge judgment jura regalia Jurats jury Justice King Lancaster lease leave to Appeal Letters Patent lien Lieutenant-Governor Lord Brougham Lordships Lushington ment Messrs Moore's P. C. mortgage Nova Scotia opinion Order in Council Ordinary parties payment Pemberton Leigh person Petition Petitioners Plaintiff prayed premises present Privy Council probate proceedings Queen question receipts respect Respondents Royal Court sold note Statute suit Supreme Court Testator Testatrix thereof tion WALFORD Walker warehouse William witnesses
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Page 130 - 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...
Page 400 - ... by their or either of the.ir order, or for their or either of their use...
Page 519 - ... 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 shall be necessary.
Page 275 - THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE, in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have taken the said Petition into consideration, and do this day agree humbly to report, as their opinion, to Your Majesty, that a Charter may be granted by Your Majesty in terms of the Draft hereunto annexed.
Page 144 - Book, or of anything therein contained, and shall certify in writing under their hands and seals, or the hands and seals of any three of them...
Page 156 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 266 - America, and we do hereby require, and command you to do and execute all things in due manner, that shall belong unto your said command and the trust we have reposed in you, according to the several powers and directions...
Page 6 - Court is bound to give such judgment as the Court below ought to have given.
Page 311 - And be it enacted, that no criminal suit or proceeding against a clerk in holy orders of the united church of England and Ireland for any offence against the laws ecclesiastical shall be instituted in any ecclesiastical court otherwise than is herein-before enacted or provided.
Page 203 - ... delivered in the presence of, and attested by, two or more credible witnesses, or by her last will and testament in writing, or any writing in the nature of or purporting to be her last will and testament, or any codicil or codicils thereto, to be by her signed and published in the presence of...