Laws of the State of New York: Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature Held in the Years 1777-1801, Being the First Twenty-four Sessions, Volume 2Weed, Parsons, 1886 - Law |
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... land in America , which lieth and extendeth between a great river called Merrimac , and a certain other river there called Charles river , being the bottom of a bay there called Massachusetts bay , and also all those lands lying within ...
... land in America , which lieth and extendeth between a great river called Merrimac , and a certain other river there called Charles river , being the bottom of a bay there called Massachusetts bay , and also all those lands lying within ...
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... lands , and requiring · all persons interested therein to attend then and there for that purpose , either by themselves or their attornies ; and if no objection to any of the said commissioners be offered in writing to any one of the ...
... lands , and requiring · all persons interested therein to attend then and there for that purpose , either by themselves or their attornies ; and if no objection to any of the said commissioners be offered in writing to any one of the ...
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... lands to be surveyed and run out distinctly and separately from such puted por part as shall be in dispute , and shall make distinct and separate allot- partitioned ments and divisions of the said undisputed and disputed lands in such ...
... lands to be surveyed and run out distinctly and separately from such puted por part as shall be in dispute , and shall make distinct and separate allot- partitioned ments and divisions of the said undisputed and disputed lands in such ...
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... lands set apart to expense of sioners not to pur chase lands . of commis- sioners , such patentee or proprietor , and of all persons holding under him or her ; of which balloting and all the proceedings in such partition , the said ...
... lands set apart to expense of sioners not to pur chase lands . of commis- sioners , such patentee or proprietor , and of all persons holding under him or her ; of which balloting and all the proceedings in such partition , the said ...
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... lands shall upon such partition as aforesaid appertain , issue their precept to the sheriff of the county in which the lands lie , commanding him to sum- mon twelve freeholders having the proper and legal qualifications of jurors to ...
... lands shall upon such partition as aforesaid appertain , issue their precept to the sheriff of the county in which the lands lie , commanding him to sum- mon twelve freeholders having the proper and legal qualifications of jurors to ...
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Page 441 - ... unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 112 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Page 247 - Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York, as together did form the law of the said Colony...
Page 446 - Kent, or the custom of any borough, or any other particular custom, shall be in writing, and signed by the party so devising the same, or by some other person in his presence and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 527 - That the lands given and granted to the governors of the college of the province of New- York, in the city of New- York, in America, by the corporation heretofore styled " the rector and inhabitants of the city of New- York...
Page 22 - Senate shall respectively be sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.
Page 446 - ... or unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same, any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 246 - Action may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence...