The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869, Volume 99Bancroft-Whitney, 1888 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 56
... give him the privilege to pay either in money or in the articles specified , as he may elect . I shall not attempt an elaborate review of these cases , but shall simply state the objections which have led us to reject their reasoning ...
... give him the privilege to pay either in money or in the articles specified , as he may elect . I shall not attempt an elaborate review of these cases , but shall simply state the objections which have led us to reject their reasoning ...
Page 57
... give , the right to the wheat absolutely . They evidently understood that the positive provisions of the contract for that mode of payment , specifying the time and amounts , would secure that result . But when the vendor gave the ...
... give , the right to the wheat absolutely . They evidently understood that the positive provisions of the contract for that mode of payment , specifying the time and amounts , would secure that result . But when the vendor gave the ...
Page 62
... give it by rescinding the contract . " And Bullis , J. , said in the same case : " When it appeared that the agent had received the money to the plaintiff's use , it was immaterial whether the money was paid on a legal or illegal ...
... give it by rescinding the contract . " And Bullis , J. , said in the same case : " When it appeared that the agent had received the money to the plaintiff's use , it was immaterial whether the money was paid on a legal or illegal ...
Page 65
... give the agent the right to retain money in his hands , which he has collected as the agent of the owner of the goods , and which belongs to the latter : Al- vord v . Latham , 31 Barb . 294 . Surety . If the principal in a bond given ...
... give the agent the right to retain money in his hands , which he has collected as the agent of the owner of the goods , and which belongs to the latter : Al- vord v . Latham , 31 Barb . 294 . Surety . If the principal in a bond given ...
Page 76
... give the plain- tiff a right to no more than nominal damages ; that the actual damage suf- fered will always ultimately measure the damages : Hartford etc. Co. v . Miller , 41 Conn . 112 ; Willson v . Willson , 25 N. H. 229 ; S. C. , 57 ...
... give the plain- tiff a right to no more than nominal damages ; that the actual damage suf- fered will always ultimately measure the damages : Hartford etc. Co. v . Miller , 41 Conn . 112 ; Willson v . Willson , 25 N. H. 229 ; S. C. , 57 ...
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Page 61 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 87 - The principle is that where the owner of two tenements sells one of them, or the owner of an entire estate sells a portion, the purchaser takes the tenement or portion sold, with all the benefits and burdens which appear at the time of the sale, to belong to it, as between it and the property which the vendor retains.
Page 654 - Where, however, the allegation of the claim or defense to which the proof is directed, is unproved, not in some particular or particulars only, but in its general scope and meaning, it is not to be deemed a case of variance, within the last two sections, but a failure of proof.
Page 439 - June, no Writ of Fieri facias, or other Writ of Execution, shall bind the Property of the Goods against whom such Writ of Execution is sued forth, but from the Time that such Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroners, to be executed...
Page 663 - The general rule is that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the state in which it is made; if...
Page 299 - ... provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent a division and distribution of the capital stock of the company, which shall remain after the payment of all its debts, upon the dissolution of the corporation or the expiration of its charter.
Page 343 - ... every such conveyance not so recorded shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real estate or any portion thereof whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded.
Page 632 - On the contrary, although he may be laboring under partial insanity, if he still understands the nature and character of his act, and its consequences; if he has a knowledge that it is wrong and criminal, and a mental power sufficient to apply that knowledge to his own case, and to know that, if he does the act, he will do wrong and receive punishment; such partial insanity is not sufficient to exempt him from responsibility for criminal acts.
Page 153 - ... in all cases where a condition of a bond, recognizance, &c., is possible at the time of the making of the condition, and, before the same can be performed, the condition becomes impossible by the act of God, or of the law, or of the obligee, &c., there, the obligation, Sic., is saved.
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