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Supreme Court of Judicature
from the commencement of that Act (November 1, 1875: see Judicature Act, 1875, s. 2) the court of Chancery of England, the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, the Court of Exchequer, … both these Acts [except ss. 25 (2), 46, 64, 66 of the Judicature Act, 1873], re-enacting them with amendments. The following were the more important provisions of those Acts, in addition to those constituting the High Court
Damages
non-performance of a contract relating to the sale and purchase of realty. This was amended by the (English) Chancery Amendment Act, 1858 (21 & 23 Vict. c. 27), 'Cairns's Act,' which provided that in all cases in which the
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Evidence
on a trial in the Common Law Courts differed from that which was usual in the Court of Chancery. It was oral in the former, and by affidavit in the latter. Now, however, that there is one … Division on applications by motion or summons. See Best, or Roscoe, or Taylor, or Powell on Evidence; Evidence (Amendment) Act, 1915; and for other statutes on the subject, see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Evidence.' (7) it means and includes--
High Court of Justice
the Judicature Act, 1875, the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the following Courts, viz.: '(1) The High Court of Chancery; (2) The Court of King's Bench; (3) The Court of Common Pleas at Westminster; (4) The Court of … High Court of Justice. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, has replaced with amendments the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). The earlier Act abolished the former Superior Courts
Quantum damnificatus, Issue
Chancery to be tried at law to fix the amount of compensation for damage, which prior to the Chancery Amendment Act, 1858 (see that title), could not be awarded in Chancery.
Enrollment
5, c. 5),Sch. 10, every bargain and sale of a freehold interest was required to be enrolled in Chancery within six [lunar] months after its date. No assurance before 1926 by a tenant-in-tail under the (English) Fines … p. 551. By the Statute of Enrolments, 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, now repealed by the (English) L.P. Amendment Act, 1924 (15 Geo. 5, c. 5),Sch. 10, every bargain and sale of a freehold interest was required to
Publication
complied with (ibid., ss. 49 and 59, as amended by the Act of 1932). Publication of evidence in Chancery is no longer practised, as all parties attend the examination of witnesses. Publication of a citation in two … as to defeat registration, provided that the conditions imposed are complied with (ibid., ss. 49 and 59, as amended by the Act of 1932). Publication of evidence in Chancery is no longer practised, as all parties attend
Settled land
28 Vict. c. 45; and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 33), gave large powers to the Court of Chancery, with the concurrence of the parties interested, to direct sales and leases of settled estates, and also enabled … terms of years for securing the same (as to this see the liberating amendment in the L. P. Amendment Act, 1926, ss. 1 and 2), and references in the Act to the settlement shall extend to any compound
Judge
14, replacing s. 14 of the Act of 1873. By (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 4, in the Chancery (English) Division of the High Court there are, in addition to the Lord Chancellor, six judges, and in … Lord Chief Justice, there are nineteen judges, two having been added by the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 1935 (25 Geo. 5, c. 2), s. 1. In the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division there is the
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