Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During the Time of Lord Chancellor Sugden

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Página 115 - That it shall and may be lawful for any person entitled to, or claiming under any mortgage of land, being land within the definition contained in the first section of the said Act, to make an entry or bring an action at law or suit in equity to recover such land at any time within Twenty years next after the last payment of any part of the principal money or interest secured by such mortgage, although more than Twenty years may have elapsed since the time at which the right to make such entry, or...
Página 510 - Monypenny for and during the term of his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease, upon trust for the first son of the body of such first son, and the heirs male of his body ; and, in default of such issue...
Página 563 - Bertie, for life, remainder to his first and other sous in tail male, remainder to the plaintiff tor life, remainder to his first and other sons in tail male, with...
Página 362 - I know no case of a remainder or conditional limitation over of a real estate, whether by way of particular estate so as to leave a proper remainder, or to defeat an absolute fee before, by a conditional limitation ; but if the precedent limitation, by what means soever, is out of the case, the subsequent limitation takes place : and I am of opinion, this must be so construed.
Página 115 - ... when the person claiming such land or rent, or the person through whom he claims, shall have become entitled by reason of any forfeiture or breach of condition, then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued when such forfeiture was incurred or such condition was broken.
Página 64 - For, in general, courts of equity, as a matter of public policy, do not incline, on the one hand, to lend their assistance to a person who has obtained an agreement or deed from another in a state of intoxication; and, on the other hand, they are equally unwilling to assist the intoxicated party to get rid of his agreement or deed merely on the ground of his intoxication at the time. They will leave the parties to their ordinary remedies at law, unless there is some fraudulent contrivance or some...
Página 117 - to file a bill of foreclosure, whether the plaintiff's mortgage be a legal or an equitable one, falls within the 24th section of the statute 3 & 4 Will. 4, and the 1 Viet. c. 28 ; and the time is governed by the legal right of the party to bring an action, or, if he have not the legal estate, by the right which he would have had if his estate had been a legal instead of an equitable one." And " it cannot be said that the suit is not to recover the land...
Página 116 - ... no Person claiming any Land or Rent in Equity shall bring any Suit to recover the same but within the Period during which by virtue of the Provisions herein-before contained he might have made an Entry or Distress or brought an Action to recover the same respectively if he had been entitled at Law to such Estate, Interest, or Right in or to the same as he shall claim therein in Equity.
Página 466 - Dublin, or to issue, or who has issued, execution in any suit or proceeding on any recognizance there, to apply by petition to the Court of Chancery, or to the Court of Exchequer at the equity side thereof, for an order that a receiver may be appointed of the rents and profits of the entire, and not of a moiety only, of all lands, tenements, or hereditaments, which he would be entitled to have extended or appraised under a writ of elegit...
Página 420 - But that a very large sum should become immediately payable, in consequence of the non-payment of a very small sum, and that the former should not be considered as a penalty, appears to be a contradiction in terms; the case being precisely that in which courts of equity have always relieved, and against which courts of law have, in modern times, endeavoured to relieve, by directing juries to assess the real damages sustained by the breach of the agreement.

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