Maddox v Maddox
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 05 December 1747 |
| Date | 05 December 1747 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 27 E.R. 892
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
maddox v. maddox, Dec. 5, 1747- Party having notice through his agent, of sufficient to make him inquire as to the title, cannot protect himself by procuring the legal estate. Attorney, &c., may object to answer as a witness as to confidential communications.-(See Supplement, p. 48; 2 Gwill. Bac. Ab. 579, 580; 4 Tr. R. 759, and 2 Ves. jun. 189.) Edward Maddox suffered a recovery of an estate in A. descended to him in tail; and afterwards settled all his lands in A. upon his family : a tenement in A. of which he had the reversion after an estate for life, descended to him in tail by the death of the tenant for life ; he suffers a recovery of it, and devises it to his younger son in fee, because the elder had disobliged him : he afterward mortgages it, together with 200 that he had a power to charge on the settled estate, for the securing 200, which he borrowed; and dies. (Note : For the more particular circumstances of the case, the decree, &c., see Supplement, 46, &c.) [62] The mortgagee applies to the elder son for the money; who at first disputed the payment; but afterward submitted thereto, upon the mortgagee's assigning to him that tenement so charged, that he might stand in his place ; to which the mortgagee agreed upon his covenanting to indemnify him from making this assignment: he having heard of the younger son's title. The eldest son mortgaged the tenement to Betton, who had advanced the money for the payment of the former mortgage. The first question was, whether the plaintiff the younger son, had any title to this tenement; Betton insisting that the father had no right to devise it, being comprised within the settled estate. (But see the Supplement, p. 46.) Secondly, supposing he had...
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