The Australian Law Times, Volume 29Charles F. Maxwell, 1908 - Law |
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A'BECKETT action affidavit alleged allowed amount appears application appointed assignment bill of lading charge child claim client codicil contract conviction costs counsel County Court Court Act 1890 Court of Petty creditor Cussen debt debtor decision defendant defendant's discretion Duncan McIntyre duty entitled evidence executors fact fee simple Geelong gift give given ground hearing held insolvent intention interest issue judgment judgment debtor jurisdiction jury Justices Act 1890 land learned Judge legacy liability licensed premises Licensing Act 1906 Madden Magistrates Margaret Davies marriage matter meaning Melbourne mens rea ment Nilen notice objection offence opinion order nisi paid parties payment person Petty Sessions plaintiff possession promissory note question reason referred respect rule shares solicitor Stamps Act summons Taxing tenant testator testator's testatrix thereof tion trial trustees Victoria ward of Court words
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Page 76 - Carteret his intended wife lawfully to be begotten ; and for default of such issue, to the use of the right heirs of the said Sir Robert the father for ever.
Page 201 - ... upon such terms (if any) as the justice of the case may require, and any such enlargement may be ordered although the application for the same is not made until after the expiration of the time appointed or allowed 0.
Page 173 - When a testator or settlor directs or permits the subject of his disposition to remain as shares or stocks in a company which has the power either of distributing its profits as dividend or of converting them into capital, and the company validly exercises this power, such exercise of its power is binding on all persons interested under...
Page 200 - Judge may thereupon, unless the defendant by affidavit or otherwise shall satisfy him that he has a good defence to the action on the merits, or disclose such facts as may be deemed sufficient to entitle him to defend, make an order empowering the plaintiff to enter judgment accordingly.
Page 78 - That where a person is summoned before any court in respect of a nuisance arising from a fireplace or furnace which does not consume the smoke arising from the combustible used in such fireplace or furnace, the...
Page 139 - Way, after bequeathing certain specific parts of his personal estate to his widow, devised and bequeathed all his real estate, and the residue of his personal estate, to...
Page 126 - Z and the survivors or survivor of them or other the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my will...
Page 176 - ... the testator or settlor, in the shares ; and consequently what is paid by the company as dividend goes to the tenant for life, and what is paid by the company to the shareholder as capital, or appropriated as an increase of the capital stock in the concern, enures to the benefit of all who are interested in the capital.
Page 126 - Town, for the sum of £500 sterling, to be settled upon the trustee hereinafter named, in manner and upon the trusts, and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same.
Page 184 - The buyer is deemed to have accepted the goods when he intimates to the seller that he has accepted them, or when the goods have been delivered to him, and he does any act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller, or when after the lapse of a reasonable time, he retains the goods without intimating to the seller that he has rejected them.