Chancery

She hoped that her brother-in-law would allow her son to go on living there, but instead the estate became the subject of a Chancery case. The family's former wealth is reflected in John Hutchinson's...

Like most of her class, female as well as male, she was often involved in property deals. The year before her third marriage she faced a Chancery suit with the heir of her patrons the...

CMG 's father, Benjamin Grindall , worked as an employee of the Bengal Civil Service and died when she was a young girl, leaving CMG a ward of Chancery . He made his will on...

As a ward of ChanceryCMG would have probably received a basic education in reading and writing under the supervision of the court.

CMG was born into the English professional class, into the defined world of those white people who worked and lived in British India. Her father died while she was still young, and she was...

Elizabeth Lincoln 's son and heir, the Earl of Lincoln , sued his mother in Chancery as guardian of his younger brothers.

Its critique of the position of the poor, notably in the character of Jo the crossing sweep, is coupled with a sharp analysis of the Byzantine operations of the Courts of Chancery . The cast...

AMC 's younger brother, Aubrey St John Clerke , after receiving an education at boarding school and Trinity College , became a Chancery barrister in London.

Times were hard for small landowners, and much harder for Catholics. JB 's niece Mary Staton brought a suit against her in Chancery to force her to pay a debt.