Chancery

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...

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

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

Issues of money were crucial to the break-up of EJ 's marriage. She describes her husband as miserly, and as frequently leaving his wife and children without means of support while the couple remained technically...

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...