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[[File:WashingtonBeckwithvButler1798v1p224.jpg|link={{file path:WashingtonsReports1798V1BeckwithvButler.pdf}}|thumb|right|300px|First page of the opinion [[Media:WashingtonsReports1798V1BeckwithvButler.pdf|''Beckwith v. Butler'']], in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21560662660003196 ''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia''], by Bushrod Washington. Richmond: T. Nicolson, 1798.]]
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[[File:WashingtonBeckwithvButler1798v1p224.jpg|link={{filepath:WashingtonsReports1798V1BeckwithvButler.pdf}}|thumb|right|300px|First page of the opinion [[Media:WashingtonsReports1798V1BeckwithvButler.pdf|''Beckwith v. Butler'']], in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21560662660003196 ''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia''], by Bushrod Washington. Richmond: T. Nicolson, 1798.]]
 
[[Media:WashingtonsReports1798V1BeckwithvButler.pdf|''Beckwith v. Butler'']], 1 Va. (1 Wash.) 224 (1793),<ref>Bushrod Washington, ''[[Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia]],'' (Richmond: T. Nicolson, 1798), 1:224.</ref> was a case regarding the distribution of a personal estate after the fraudulent acquisition of the estate by one of its heirs.  
 
[[Media:WashingtonsReports1798V1BeckwithvButler.pdf|''Beckwith v. Butler'']], 1 Va. (1 Wash.) 224 (1793),<ref>Bushrod Washington, ''[[Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia]],'' (Richmond: T. Nicolson, 1798), 1:224.</ref> was a case regarding the distribution of a personal estate after the fraudulent acquisition of the estate by one of its heirs.  
  
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===The Court's Decision===
 
===The Court's Decision===
[[Geprge Wythe|Chancellor Wythe]] decreed that Jonathan Beckwith was to pay the respondents an assigned amount out of the estate. The Court of Appeals affirmed the case and remitted to the High Court of Chancery for a hearing because the decree contained a mistake by the clerk.
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[[George Wythe|Chancellor Wythe]] decreed that Jonathan Beckwith was to pay the respondents an assigned amount out of the estate. The Court of Appeals affirmed the case and remitted to the High Court of Chancery for a hearing because the decree contained a mistake by the clerk.
  
 
==See also==
 
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Latest revision as of 14:16, 30 July 2018

First page of the opinion Beckwith v. Butler, in Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, by Bushrod Washington. Richmond: T. Nicolson, 1798.

Beckwith v. Butler, 1 Va. (1 Wash.) 224 (1793),[1] was a case regarding the distribution of a personal estate after the fraudulent acquisition of the estate by one of its heirs.

Background

Lawrence Butler, along with other children and grandchildren of Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, sued Jonathan Beckwith in the High Court of Chancery. The complainant requested the Chancery Court redistribute Sir Marmaduke's personal estate. The respondents alleged that Sir Marmaduke made a fraudulent deed to Jonathan Beckwith for 14 slaves and prayed that the slaves be divided among them.

The Court's Decision

Chancellor Wythe decreed that Jonathan Beckwith was to pay the respondents an assigned amount out of the estate. The Court of Appeals affirmed the case and remitted to the High Court of Chancery for a hearing because the decree contained a mistake by the clerk.

See also

References

  1. Bushrod Washington, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, (Richmond: T. Nicolson, 1798), 1:224.