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Cy-pres
as they should admit of being fairly carried into execution. It is upon this ground tht Courts of Equity constantly hold, in cases of personal legacies, tht a substantial compliance with the condition satisfies it, although not
Damages
jury, or judge if the case be tried without a jury, payable to a successful plaintiff. Courts of Equity long laboured under the infirmity of not being able to award damages by way of compensation for a
Debtor-Executor
Debtor-Executor. At law, if a testator appoints his debtor executor, the debt is released. In equity, however, the executor is accountable for the amount of his debt, as assets of the testator. See Freakley
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Declaratory decree
Declaratory decree, a binding declaration of right in equity without consequential relief, which might be made under the (English) Chancery Procedure Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict.
Decree
decretum, Lat.], an edict, a law. The term was also used for the judgment of a Court of Equity. But by the (English) Judicature Acts, 1873 and 1875, the expression judgment, which was formerly used only in
Demurrer
simply to state that the plaintiff has not made a sufficient case to entitle him to relief in equity', Wood v. Midgley, (1854) 5 De GM&G 44, per Turner, L.J. In civil matters this mode of pleading
Liable
Bound or obliged in law or equity responsible answerable as the surety is liable for the debt of his principal
Cinque Ports
in relation to the administration of justice in actions, suits, or other civil proceedings at law or in equity, but with a saving (s. 10) of his Admiralty jurisdiction and certain other rights. The office of Lord
Charities, or Public Trusts
Ch 237. There are certain uses which, though not within the letter, are yet deemed charitable within the equity of the statute. Such is money given to maintain a preaching minister; to maintain a school master in
Articles, Marriage
writing, see Montacute v. Maxwell, 1 P Wms 618, and Butterfield v. Heath, (1852) 15 Beav 408. In equity the Articles are considered as minutes of agreement and to create executory trusts, and the Court will give
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