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Knight v Knight (1840) 49 ER 58 is an English trusts law case, embodying a simple statement of the "three certainties" principle. This has the effect of determining whether assets can be disposed of in wills , or whether the wording of the will is too vague to allow beneficiaries to collect what appears on the face of the will to be theirs.
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Hyde v Wrench [1840] EWHC Ch J90 is a leading English contract law case on the issue of counter-offers and their relation to initial offers. It contains Lord Langdale 's ruling that any counter-offer cancels the original offer.
Presumably they did, and predictably in March 1843 the Royal Chancery reopened the case. While the case was continuing, on May 6, 1843 a group of villagers of Detunáta, led by Varga, armed themselves with staffs and axes and marched against the government officials who had begun planting trees on the villagers' lands. In the end no one was ...
The Somers Affair was an incident involving the American brig USS Somers during a training mission in 1842 under Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848). Midshipman Philip Spencer (1823-1842) was accused of plotting to overthrow Mackenzie and use the Somers for piracy.
A woman got a lot more than she bargained for when she stopped to give a treat to a friendly Highland cow at the Natural Bridge State Park in Virginia.
The Rhodes blood libel and the Damascus affair, reported together in The Times, Apr 18, 1840. The Rhodes blood libel was an 1840 event of blood libel against Jews, in which the Greek Orthodox community accused Jews on the island of Rhodes (then part of the Ottoman Empire) of the ritual murder of a Christian boy who disappeared in February of that year.
A car similar to one driven by a wealthy New York couple missing for more than four decades has been found in a south Georgia pond near the hotel where they were last seen, police in Georgia said.