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Paternity

pp. 378 et seq.; Sir Harris Nicolas on Adulterine Bastardy. A husband may give evidence that he had never had intercourse with his wife before the marriage (The Poulett Peerage, 1903, AC 395). It becomes a question, … months from the death of the first husband, as to the paternity of the child. Blackstone and Coke say, that if a man dies, and his widow soon after marries again, and a child is born within … paternity of the child. Blackstone and Coke say, that if a man dies, and his widow soon after marries again, and a child is born

Joint-tenancy

join in lending money on mortgage, though they take a joint security, yet equity holds that it could never have been intended that their interests should survive, the fair presumption being that each means to lend his … fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, … the possession of the other or others. Joint-tenants being seised per my et per tout, or, as Coke says, totum conjunctim et nihil per se separatim, enjoy a survivorship (jus accrescendi) which is held to be as

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