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He married Elizabeth Anne Sidebotham, daughter of a Middle Temple barrister, who bore him ten children.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...applicability to the case, by declaring that under all the circumstances belonging to it, he thought that the appointment was not revoked by the subsequent marriage, and birth of children. A subsequent The case of Doe v. Lancashiree, was that of a submarriage and the.. birth of a post-sequent marriage, and the birth of a posthumous humous child..,,.,..,. operate u a child, and, the point there was, whether the circurrlstance of the child's being born after the death of the testator, took it out of the rule that marriage and the birth of a child are a revocation of a will. The argument principally relied on against the revocation was this, viz. that at the death of the testator, and before the birth of the child, one of the circumstances which composed a case falling directly within the rule was wanting, and the decision respecting the validity of the will, ought then to be made, as if the question had arisen during the interval between the death of the testator and the birth of his child; the will could not be invalid at the testator's death, and rendered valid by subsequent extrinsic circumstances. Suppose the child had never been born alive, and the marriage and pregnancy had been held to be an implied revocation, all the devises in the will would then have been revoked in favour of a person who never came into esse. The greatest presumption that could be raised from the wife's pregnancy would be an intention to revoke when the child should be born; but a declaration of an intention to revoke a will at a future time was not sufficient even before the statute of frauds; it must be a present intention. T. R. 49, revocation. But this reasoning was completely met by Lord The rule does _ 'not depend so Kenyon's exposition of the principle of the rule, viz. muc...
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He married Elizabeth Anne Sidebotham, daughter of a Middle Temple barrister, who bore him ten children.
William Roberts was taught at Eton, Street Paul"s and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he gained his Bachelor in 1788 and Master of Arts in 1791. He toured the Continent (including Paris) before returning to England and founding a short-lived biweekly journal, The Looker-on (1792-1793) under the pseudonym Review Simon Olive-Branch. Entering the law, he wrote several legal treatises.
From 1811 to 1822 he was editor of the British Review, and London Critical Journal, founded by the evangelical lawyer John Weyland and published by John Hatchard, an evangelical Tory publisher with offices at Piccadilly.
Roberts published his four-volume biography of Hannah More in 1834: its hagiographic tone and editorial inaccuracy drew the scorn of John Gibson Lockhart in the Quarterly but the inclusion of extended extracts from More"s letters has ensured its enduring interest to those interested in More. He retired from the law to Surrey, and later to Street Albans in Hertfordshire.
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