yelkcub
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Apologies if this strikes members as a cheeky request, and I will quite understand if there are no takers … but I wonder if anyone has access to a good law library? I’m interested in a case reported in the Times (Tuesday, 17 Dec 1861) concerning a suit heard in the Vice-Chancellor’s court (a court of Chancery), Sir WP Wood presiding. The Times report only refers to it as ‘Re Page’. Thomas Page had set up a trust, such that after the death of all three brothers (Charles George, Richard, Henry) the trust fund would be distributed among the children of the brothers. The Petitioners in the case were contesting the legitimacy of Henry Page’s children – but the Times (in an otherwise detailed account) omits the petitioners’ names. It would greatly help my research into this Page family if I could discover the forenames of Henry’s brothers’ children. I phoned the Law Society library: while they could not help me with this small piece of research, recommended that older editions of The Digest (formerly titled English and Empire Digest) should contain details of the case.
If anyone using a law library could, without spending too much valuable time, have a look into the case, I would be more than grateful.
Best wishes from Cornwall
Ian
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