Questions at the examination of articled clerks. [Hilary term, 1843] Michaelmas term, 1843

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Page 9 - October, 1838, no warrant of attorney to confess judgment in any personal action, or cognovit actionem, given by any person, shall be of any force, unless there shall be present some attorney of one of the superior courts on behalf of such person, expressly named by him and attending at his request, to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant or cognovit, before the same is executed ; which attorney shall subscribe his name as a witness to the due execution thereof, and thereby declare...
Page 25 - That if any person shall attest the execution of any will to whom or to whose wife or husband any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any real or personal estate...
Page 25 - ... affecting any real or personal estate (other than and except charges and directions for the payment of any debt or debts), shall be thereby given or made, such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will, or the wife or husband of such person, or any person claiming under such person or wife or husband, be utterly null and void...
Page 18 - ... the same shall be assets to be administered in courts of equity for the payment of the just debts of such persons, as well debts due on simple contract as on specialty...
Page 9 - That from and after the time appointed for the commencement of this act no warrant of attorney to confess judgment in any personal action or cognovit actionem, given by any person, shall be of any force unless there shall be present some attorney of one of the superior Courts on behalf of such person, *expressly named by him and attending at his own request, to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant or cognovit, before the same is executed...
Page 24 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after 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 24 - Devise shall be construed to vest in such Trustee the Fee Simple, or other the whole legal Estate which the Testator had Power to dispose of by Will in such Real Estate, and not an Estate determinable when the Purposes of the Trust shall be satisfied . XXXII.
Page 24 - That where any real estate shall be devised to any person without any words of limitation, such devise shall be construed to pass the fee simple, or other the whole estate or interest which the testator had power to dispose of by will in such real estate, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 6 - ... that the plaintiff has good cause of action against the defendant to the amount of fifty pounds or upwards, and that there is...
Page 23 - An estate held in coparcenary is where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises either by common law or particular custom. By common law: as where a person seised in...

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