A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife, as Respects Property: Partly Founded Upon Roper's Treatise, and Comprising Jacob's Notes and Additions Thereto, Volumen1

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Not of term settled to wifes separate
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May appoint to each other
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Effect where contingent remainders interposed between
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Effect of bond to wife where husband disagrees
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BOOK THE FIRST
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If she omit to do so her executor intitled
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Logan v Bell
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Where power applies only to will after marriage
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Mr Jacobs remarks thereon
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Not determination of lease at will to or from wife
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Warrant of attorney to wife
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1 Legacy from husband to wife before marriage
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Cannel v Buckle
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Husbands bond to trustee for wife valid in law
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Whether valid in equity
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Of executor with residuary legatee
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But allowance must be adequate
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Where husbands real estate devised to wife and perso nalty insufficient
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CHAPTER II
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They may take in severalty
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Legacy to husband and wife jointly
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Assignment void where chose in action cannot fall into possession during husbands life 86
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Payment by mistake of wifes debt
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Of the sheriffs return
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Now no damages recoverable beyond six years before
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SECT II
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Old leases must have expired or have been surrendered
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Where postnuptial settlements valid against creditors
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Intitled as administrator where wife mortgagee in
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Widow not dowable of determinable estate semble
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Rent must be reserved to husband and wife and wifes
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Demise by wife and second husband of dower lands
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Effect where two widows dowable
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Receipt by husband or person authorised by
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Widow under old law not dowable of trust estate
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Mr Jacobs opinion
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Hall v Hugonin
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Remedy against excessive assignment by sheriff at law
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Of the effect of decrees in vesting in the husband
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Secus if heir under
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CHAPTER VI
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Payment into Court where husband lunatic
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ii
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But heir on attaining twentyone may have a sci fa
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165
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OF THE RIGHTS OF THE WIFE ON HER HUSBANDS BANKRUPTCY
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On dower and curtesy of estates subject to conditional
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husbands estate held liable after
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Page
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action
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CHAPTER VII
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Fund paid to husband where less than 2001
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Consent not taken where fund in reversion
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Box v Jackson
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CHAPTER VIII
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Wife surviving intitled to term if undisposed of
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No merger of wifes term in husbands reversion in fee
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1 May dispose of wifes legal term
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Tudor v Samyne
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Of acts of the husband other than express aliena
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CHAPTER IX
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OF THE HUSBANDS TITLE TO HIS WIFES FREEHOLD ESTATES
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In
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What seisin necessary of equitable estate
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Of what property the husband may be tenant
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Roberts v Dixwell
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Term in trust to raise portion for wife
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Whether covenant can be enforced by prohibition or injunc
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SECT IV
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Objections to the legality of deeds of separation con
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Wife exonerated though debt paid if other sum bor
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Of leases granted by husband and wife under
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From what period lease commences when not mentioned
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How rents to be reserved where different lands com
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Cannot in general be witness for or against husband ii
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Mr Jacobs observations
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Bond to be sued upon only in event of husbands bankruptcy
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OF THE WIFES EQUITY TO A SETTLEMENT OUT OF HER
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By Lord Cottenham
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But the court can proceed only against the property ii
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CHAPTER XV
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CHAPTER XVI
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As where mortgage and settlement at same time
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Effect of such settlement where settlor insolvent
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CHAPTER XVII
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Instances of widows title to emblements
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Wife surviving intitled only to one years arrears
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Whether intitled to reimbursement out of husbands contingent
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OF THE WIFES INTEREST IN HER HUSBANDS PERSONAL ESTATE
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What are to be considered advancements
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Where purchases of land by freemen will be fraudulent
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Wifes executors not intitled to any arrears semble
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What will be a performance of the husbands
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CHAPTER XIX
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368
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Option to purchase estate
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Mr Jacobs remarks
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Assignee of legal chose in action may sue in name
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Effect of 8 9 Vict c 106
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Mr Jacobs remarks
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Rights of assignee in bankruptcy same as husbands
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Effect of assignment of lands not subject to dower
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Widows tortious conveyances
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Liable to one third of duties to which estate subject
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Damages and costs when lost
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Evidence of marriage in a writ of dower
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Dower usually sued for in equity
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Where act applies to copyholds
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Although reversionary
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What acts of the husband will defeat his wifes
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of parliament
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ii
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Not performance of husbands covenant to pay
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date
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Whether liable for permissive waste
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Mr Ropers remarks thereon
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Instance of intention that wife should have both jointure and provision
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Remedy by 11 Hen 7 c 20
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Power of alienation by widow seised in tail ex provisione viri
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By 32 Hen 8 c 36
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Statutes liberally construed
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Estates derived from husband or his ancestors within statute
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From husbands ancestors
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Where money paid by wifes friends will not take join ture made by husbands ancestors out of statute
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What will be considered purchases
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Estates belonging to wife or derived from her ancestors not within act
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Or where remainder limited to stranger
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Whether widow tenant in tail general ex provisione viri the reversion being in the husbands heir is within act
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Estate in fee simple not within statute
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Lease by widow for life
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Who intitled to enter
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Mr Jacobs remarks
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Effect of 3 4 W 4 c 74
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OF THE VALIDITY OF DEEDS OF SEPARATION AGAINST
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Página 1 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing...
Página 358 - That when a husband shall die, beneficially entitled to any land for an interest which shall not entitle his widow to dower out of the same at law, and such interest, whether wholly equitable, or partly legal and partly equitable, shall be an estate of inheritance in possession, or equal to an estate of inheritance in possession, (other than an estate in joint tenancy,) then his widow shall be entitled in equity to dower out of the same land.
Página 246 - Paige, 386, where there was a conveyance to a feme coeert, to hold for her separate use, during the joint lives of herself and her husband, and...
Página 502 - Villers, covenanted to stand seised of certain lands, to the use of himself for life, remainder to the use of his...
Página 518 - CD and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of waste And from and after the determination of that estate by forfeiture or otherwise...
Página 327 - Therefore, if a man seised in fee-simple hath a son by his first wife, and after marries a second wife, she shall be endowed of his lands ; for her issue might by possibility have been heir on the death of the son by the former wife. But if there be a donee in special tail who holds lands to him and the heirs of his body begotten on Jane his wife : though Jane may be endowed of these lands, yet if Jane dies, and he marries a second wife, that second wife shall never be endowed of the lands entailed;...
Página 440 - RG, were parties, and by a recovery suffered in pursuance thereof, the estates were limited to the use of the husband for life, remainder to the wife...
Página 122 - If land be given to a woman and the heirs male of her body, and she have issue only a daughter...
Página 283 - ... the heirs of their bodies, and for default of such issue to the use of the right heirs of the survivor of A and B.
Página 130 - That a contingent remainder, existing at any time after the 31st day of December, 1844, shall be, and, if created before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to have been capable of taking effect, notwithstanding the determination, by forfeiture, surrender, or merger of any preceding estate of freehold, in the same manner, in all respects, as if such determination had not happened.

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