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The Colonial Practice of Saint Vincent; Containing an Abstract of the Court Acts, and the Rules of the Several Courts in the Island: Also

The Colonial Practice of Saint Vincent; Containing an Abstract of the Court Acts, and the Rules of the Several Courts in the Island: Also

Shephard, Charles

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ISBN10: 145886846X
ISBN13: 9781458868466
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 9.02 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...is the only hold the planter has over the European merchant, whose accounts frequently indicate a decided superiority of dictation to the planter; and when they are occasionally subjected to the review of a court of chancery, produce very different results from the original composition. As the charges of interest upon invoices, and upon the account current, besides the commissions and several others, must be disallowed, when interest is charged on the gross sum advanced. The last conveyance to be considered, is a will (a). This requires the same formality in its execution as in England; for, although the legislature of the island of Grenada thought it necessary, by a declaratory act, to confirm the statute of frauds in that colony, it has always, with the rest of the statute book, to 1763 (excepting laws having a local or political operation), been considered as the law of this island (b). And the statute 25 Geo. II. c. 6. (a) App. No. LXXIII. (b) The application of particular statutes in the colonies is well stated in the case of the Attorney General v. Stewart, 2 Merivale, 143. See also State Trials, xx. 289. 8vo edit, and Mr. Gloster's preface to the Laws of Dominica, p. 84. This work was printed in the West Indies in 1818, under the superintendence of the Hon. Archibald Gloster, the chief expressly extends the statute of Charles to all colonies where it has been adopted by an act of the assembly, or received by usage. Wills are proved by affidavit made before the chancellor, as ordinary, by one of the subscribing witnesses, as to the due execution of the instrument, and the disposing mind of the testator: if the witnesses are dead, the proof of the handwriting of the testator is admitted by other means. Upon this, letters testamentary are...

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