The Principal Grounds and Maxims: With an Analysis and a Dialogue and Treatise of the Laws of England; and on Tenures, Estates, Hereditaments, and Chattels, Real and Personal; and in What Manner They May Be Recovered and Conveyed
The Principal Grounds and Maxims: With an Analysis and a Dialogue and Treatise of the Laws of England; and on Tenures, Estates, Hereditaments, and Chattels, Real and Personal; and in What Manner They May Be Recovered and Conveyed
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...prtemium pudicitice, the court of Chancery will not compel the party or his executors, to fulfil an agreement to provide for a forsaken kept mistress. Whaley v. Norton, iVern. 483. Thus, a general demurrer was allowed to a bill against the widow and executrix of the testator, to enforce an agreement by him when single, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...prtemium pudicitice, the court of Chancery will not compel the party or his executors, to fulfil an agreement to provide for a forsaken kept mistress. Whaley v. Norton, iVern. 483. Thus, a general demurrer was allowed to a bill against the widow and executrix of the testator, to enforce an agreement by him when single, first by a letter to the plaintiff, and afterwards by a parol agreement with her, to settle an annuity on the plaintiff, who vas separated from her husband, and a deed of separation was executed by them, in which the husband gave up all claim to any property the plaintiff might acquire. After this separation, the plaintiff was induced to live with the testator, and lived with him for sercral years; when he, being about to marry, communicated his intention to a lady, a friend of the plaintiff, requesting her to break the matter to the plaintiff, and expressing an intention to settle upon her 100J. a-year. The testator wrote afterwards to the plaintiff, enclosing her 25(., which he said, " I look upon as a quarter of the annuity I intend securing to yon for your life, which shall be regularly paid at the four usual quarters. I shall send you 501. in the course of a few days, and will send you the same sum at Christmas, to purchase what you may have occasion for to make you comfortable." In consequence of the proposal of the annuity, it was finally agreed between the plaintiff and the testator, that the connection should cease, and that the plaintiff should not in any respect, impede or endeavour to prevent the intended marriage with the defendant; and that the plaintiff should in future live a retired, chaste, and virtuous life, and should so conduct herself, "Where.the first act in the condition is to he performed by the' oblige...
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