Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Court, And, on Appeal, in the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey, Volume 10MacCrellish & Quigley, 1900 |
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adultery agreement Alexander Gray alleged amount answer appears appointed assignment Assiscunk Creek bank Beav bequest bill brother C. E. Gr Caleb H chancellor charge church claim codicil complainant complainant's contract conveyed court of chancery court of equity covenant creditors daughter death debt deceased decree deed defendant devise easement entitled evidence executed executors fact filed foreclosure gift give given grandchildren granted Harrall heirs held husband injunction intended interest intestate invested issue Jacob James Chadwick James Horner Jersey City John Jones judgment land lease legacies legatee liability Louanstein Ludlum marriage matter ment mortgage Newark orphans court owner paid parties payment personal estate plainant possession premises proof purchase question real estate receiver rents residue respondent Ruckman says secure share sold statute suit Summerbell Swayze tenant testator's testatrix testimony thereof Thomas tion trust wife
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Página 354 - A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.
Página 147 - ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing.
Página 493 - The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the rule of the civil law ; and kindred of the half blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood, in the same degree, unless the inheritance came to the intestate by descent, devise, or gift of some one of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestor shall be excluded from such inheritance.
Página 35 - Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels which shall hereafter be made which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Página 485 - That every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Página 203 - ... the only exception to the rule, is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal. In that particular and special case, the devisee for life will not take an estate in fee, notwitstanding the distinct and naked gift of a power of disposition of the reversion. This distinction is carefully marked and settled in the cases.
Página 65 - Wend. 119, where it is held that a devise to two daughters of land "to be equally divided between them, share and share alike...
Página 66 - Our statute provides that no estate, after the passing of the act (February 4, 1812) shall be considered and adjudged to be an estate in joint tenancy, except it be expressly set forth In the grant or devise creating such estate, that it is the intention of the parties to create an estate in joint tenancy, and not an estate of tenancy in common, any law, usage or decision theretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 152 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Página 38 - In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...