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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.
The rule came out of the case of Knight v Knight. [1] The testator, after giving away his personal and real property, added to the end of his will that "I trust to the justice of my successors, in continuing the estates in the male succession, according to the will of the founder of the family".
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 ...
Pages in category "1840 in case law" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Knight v Knight; R. Rex v. Stewart This page was ...
Joseph Knight (fl. 1769–1778) was a man born in Guinea (the general name of West Africa) and there seized into slavery. It appears that the captain of the ship which brought him to Jamaica there sold him to John Wedderburn of Ballindean, Scotland. Wedderburn had Knight serve in his household, and took him along when he returned to Scotland in ...
This is a list of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas. 1840. Republic v. McCullough, Dallam 357 (1840). Hunter v. Oelrich ... Knight v. Huff ...
This isn't the first time Alahverdian has complained about his treatment in jail.
Knight v Knight (1840) [ edit ] In 1836 he launched a lawsuit against his younger brother Thomas Knight (1775–1853) of Papcastle , and others, attempting to recover the estates of his father's first cousin Payne Knight (1750–1824), MP, of Downton Castle , which estates had mostly derived from the family patriarch Richard Knight (1659–1745 ...