Jurisconsult Exercitations Volume 2 (Paperback)

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.1811 Excerpt: ... TWO ARGUMENTS BEFORE LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, j-';. '.:, .'. i IN THE CASE OF I.-Jf.;li.: . I SCOTT AND HIS WIFE AGAINST VERNON, TYLER, AND OTHERS, On Legacy to a Natural Daughter, under Condition of marrying before 21 with Consent of her Natural Mother, j j, The case, in which the two following Arguments were delivered by the Author, is reported in 2. Bro. Cha. Cas. 431. by the name of Scott v. Tyler. T-he two Arguments were delivered before Lord Chancellor'Tliurlow in May and June 1787. They formed a part of the volume of Juridical Arguments, which was published by the author in 1797...i'1-;f "J-i.rt.lj; ii";Y '"ir.:: '.' ': " The case involved various material points. But the author, who was only taken into the cause a short time before its being heard, had it ex plaint to him, that he was not expected to argue any points, except such as related to the effect of the legacy on condition of the legatee's marriage under twenty-one, with consent of her natural-mother, who wa- made the testator's residuary legatee. What was required from the author, as one of the counsel for the assignees under the commission of bankruptcy against the mother, was to insist on the legality of the condition, and on the falling of the legacy into the residuary estate in consequence of the legatee's having married without the consent required. Thus, for the sake of creditors under a commission of bankruptcy, it became the unavoidable duty of the mother's assignees to make it the cause of mother against daughter, with a certainty, that if the mother's right should be established, it was gaining a victory for her creditors against her own child. Such a case had enough in it to affect the sensibilities of the counsel, on whom it fell to support the efficiency of the condition; ...