Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, Volume 55Soney & Sage, 1898 |
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agreement alleged American Tobacco Co American Tobacco Company amount answer appeal applied appointed assets assignment Bank bill bonds Brennan C. E. Gr certificate chancellor City claim complainant complainant's contract conveyance conveyed corporation counsel court of chancery court of equity creditors debt decree deed defendant demurrer devise Dick enforce entitled execution executor fact filed fraud Giltinan Glen Ridge heirs held holders husband injunction insolvent interest Jersey Jersey City John judgment lands lien Loudenslager Martling ment mortgage mortgagor Newark Newark German orphans court owner paid pany parties payment Perrine plainant premises proof purchase purpose question railway real estate receiver respondent rule rule in Shelley's Scull Sea Isle City sell shares sold statute Steller Stew stockholders suit Taylor testator thereof tion Trenton company trust Vice-Chancellor wife Wilson Woodbury Heights
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Page 202 - 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.
Page 651 - ... the inquiry must always be as to the point or question actually litigated and determined in the original action, not what might have been thus litigated and determined. Only upon such matters is the judgment conclusive in another action.
Page 202 - ... to the Queen's Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, and to be by him appropriated to the benefit and advantage of my beloved country, Great Britain.
Page 803 - ... and enters into some transaction, the legal scope and operation of which he correctly apprehends and understands, for the purpose of affecting such assumed rights, interests or estates...
Page 8 - A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience, or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, 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.
Page 803 - Mistake of law constitutes a mistake, within the meaning of this article, only when it arises from: 1. A misapprehension of the law by all parties, all supposing that they knew and understood it, and all making substantially the same mistake as to the law; or, 2. A misapprehension of the law by one party, of which the others are aware at the time of contracting, but which they do not rectify.
Page 8 - 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. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore from the beginning of this jurisdiction, there was always a limitation to suits in this court.
Page 382 - ... which contracts shall be legal and obligatory, and may be enforced at law or in equity, by or against such married woman, in her own name, apart from her husband...
Page 399 - ... of which I may be possessed at the time of my death...
Page 590 - ... receives and the mortgage which he gives are regarded as one transaction, and no general lien impending over him, whether in the shape of a general mortgage, or judgment, or recognizance, can displace such mortgage for purchase-money.