Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, of the Several Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, and of Lord Chancellor Loughborough, from 1778 to 1794, with an Appendix of Contemporary Cases, Volum 1

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Side 6 - THURLOW said, that to set aside a conveyance, there must be an inequality, so strong, gross and manifest, that it must be impossible to state it to a man of common sense without producing an exclamation at the inequality of it (1).
Side 14 - ... determined cases seem to go thus far, that the general engagement of the wife shall operate upon her personal property, shall apply to the rents and profits of her real estate, and that her trustees shall be obliged to apply personal estate, and rents and profits when they arise, to the satisfaction of such general engagement...
Side 93 - Being asthmatical, and the office very hot. she retired to her carriage to execute the will, the witnesses attending her ; after having seen the execution they returned into the office to attest it; and the carriage was put back to the window of the office, through which, it was sworn by a person in the carriage, that the testatrix might see what passed.
Side 17 - And further be it enacted. . . that if any woman child or maiden, being above the age of twelve years and under the age of sixteen years, do at any time consent and agree to such person that so shall make any contract of matrimony contrary to the form and effect of this statute, that then the next of the kin of the same woman child or maid, to whom the inheritance should descend return or come after the decease of the same woman child or maid...

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