Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida, Volume 4

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Page 153 - The Supreme Court, except in cases otherwise directed in this Constitution, shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which shall be coextensive with the State, under such restrictions and regulations, not repugnant to this Constitution, as, may from time to time be prescribed by law...
Page 366 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 159 - It is the essential criterion of appellate jurisdiction that it revises and corrects the proceedings in a cause already instituted, and does not create that cause.
Page 236 - Court, do not apply, the practice of the circuit courts shall be regulated by the practice of the High Court of Chancery in England.
Page 282 - Houston for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds to him in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents, doth give, grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said...
Page 18 - It is the constant aim of a court of equity to do complete justice by deciding upon and settling the rights of all persons interested in the subject of the suit, so as to make the performance of the order of the court perfectly safe to those who are compelled to obey it, and to prevent future litigation.
Page 220 - And because fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times, it was resolved in this case by the whole court, that all statutes made against fraud should be liberally and beneficially expounded to suppress the fraud : ' Qureritur, ut crescunt tot magna volumina legis In promptu causa est, crescit in orbe dolus.
Page 396 - It is equally indisputable, however, that because an article is depreciated in the market, it does not follow that the owner is not entitled to demand or require a higher price for it before he consents to part with it. He may possess bank notes which to him are of par value in payment of his own debts or in payment of public taxes, and yet their marketable value may be far less.
Page 372 - The party demurring admits the truth of the testimony to which he demurs, and also those conclusions of fact which a jury may fairly draw from that testimony. Forced and violent inferences he does not admit, but the testimony is to be taken most strongly against him, and such conclusions as a jury might justifiably draw the court ought to draw.
Page 63 - An administrator de bonis non is entitled to all "the goods and personal estate, such as terms for years, "household goods, &c., which remain in specie, and were "not administered by the first executor or administrator — "as, also, to all debts due and owing to the testator, or in"testate.

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