 | William Cruise - 1824 - 528 էջ
...M«ii«v.Hiif- 29. A father, on a treaty for the marriage of his lT".yiw.cc' '" daughter with the plaintiff, signed a writing comprising the terms of the agreement, and afterwards designing to elude it, directed his daughter to get the plaintiff to deliver it up, and then to marry him, which she did.... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 866 էջ
...Bro. Ch. R. 565. So where the defendant on a treaty of marriage for his daughter with the plaintiff, signed a writing comprising the terms of the agreement, and afterwards designing to elude the force thereof, and get loose from his agreement, ordered his daughter to put on a good humour and get the... | |
 | 1858 - 810 էջ
...but bow ? Ask Lord St. Leonards. Here is a very naughty father and daughter, and a sharp judge: — " Equity will, in some cases, relieve a party on the...of his daughter, signed a writing, comprising the terras of the agreement ; and afterwards designing to elude the force of it, and get loose from Ыз... | |
 | 1858 - 586 էջ
...sometimes relieves the party on the ground of fraud) is enjoined in the following humourous story : " A man of the name " of Halfpenny, upon a treaty for...terms of the agreement, and afterwards, designing to allude the force of it, and get loose from his agreement, ordered his daughter to put on a good humour,... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1877 - 1150 էջ
...it. Thus, where a father, on a treaty for the marriage of his daughter with the plaintiff, executed a writing comprising the terms of the agreement, and afterwards, designing to elude it, directed his daughter to get the plaintiff to deliver it up, and then to marry him, which she did,... | |
 | Charles Edmund Baker - 1882 - 214 էջ
...particular or legal language shall be used. An amusing instance is told in illustration of the above. A man of the name of Halfpenny, upon a treaty for...afterwards, designing to elude the force of it and get free from the agreement, ordered his daughter to put on a good humour, and get the intended husband... | |
 | Raleigh C. Minor - 1908 - 818 էջ
...it. Thus, where a father, on a treaty for the marriage of his daughter with the plaintiff, executed a writing comprising the terms of the agreement, and afterwards, designing to elude it, directed his daughter to get the plaintiff to deliver it up, and then to marry him, which she did,... | |
 | James Williams - 1932 - 342 էջ
...Mallet v. Halfpenny, where the defendant, on a treaty of marriage for his daughter with the plaintiff, signed a writing, comprising the terms of the agreement, and afterwards designing to elude the force thereof, and get loose from his agreement, ordered his daughter to put on a good humour, and get the... | |
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My Lord Chancellor", runs the report of Lord Parker's judgment, "...cited the case of Mallet v. Halfpenny, where the defendant, on a treaty of marriage for his daughter with the plaintiff, signed a writing, comprising the terms of the agreement, and afterwards... 