Chancery

Dr Henchman argued that the other side's multiplication of the main issue into innumerable subsidiary points, each requiring many witnesses, ensured the case such longevity that the youngest man here will never live to see...

The initial financial crisis lasted for two years and concerned RMR 's small encumbered (that is to say, debt-ridden) estate, inherited from her father in King's County. Their lawyer, Mr Buswell , misrepresented its...

It seems actually to have appeared by November 1819. A New York edition appeared in 1820, and a French translation in 1821. During this decade RMR and her husband were losing money hand...

It may have been after the couple had separated that SLP 's father died, and her husband brought a suit in Chancery to overthrow the will by which Sarah was to inherit independently of his...

Menella's mother, Mary Smedley, was a great-grand-daughter of George Bellas , a London lawyer and politician of somewhat mixed reputation who died leaving a substantial estate which led to huge family gatherings in Westmorland of...

This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...

His father, Thomas Anthony Trollope , was a barrister in the Court of Chancery until his career was jeopardized by his unacceptably rude behaviour.

AJV 's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane...

Set in the recent past, The Channings details the trials of a devout middle-class family. As the novel opens, they discover that a legacy they had been counting on has been denied them by Chancery