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Chew and Others against Chew

Maclean & Robinson's Appeal Cases English Reports Cited in 3 Precedent Map Related
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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1691
Date01 January 1691
CourtHigh Court of Chancery

English Reports Citation: 21 E.R. 823

COURT OF CHANCERY

Chew and Others against Chew

NELSON, 190. CHEW AND OTHERS V. CHEW 823 [190] chew and others against chew. Mich. Term, Anno 1691. The Bill was to have Execution of a Trust of a Copyhold Estate. The Case was thus : ff. A Copyholder of the Manor of Painswick, in the County of Glocester, surrender'd the same to one Harding and his Heirs, and declared to him by Parol, that his Wife should have this Copyhold, if she happened to survive him ; and if they both should die, that in such Case it should be sold, and that the Money arising by such Sale should be equally divided amongst the now Plaintiffs, Share and Share alike. He afterwards made a Will, in which he took no Notice of this Copyhold ; and both he and his Wife in a little Time died...

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  • Federal questions and the domestic-relations exception.
    • United States
    • Yale Law Journal Vol. 125 No. 5, March 2016
    • 1 March 2016
    ...the domestic-relations exception applied even in cases raising "weighty question[s] of federal constitutional law." (189) Even Baker v. Nelson, (190) the 1972 summary disposition whose precedential value was extensively debated in the lead-up to Obergefell, (191) was arguably "based upon th......

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