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 53
... objected to the ad- mission of the instrument in evidence , but his objection was overruled . He testified that the indorsement was made be- fore the note was signed ; that it was given for a fanning - mill bought by him from the ...
... objected to the ad- mission of the instrument in evidence , but his objection was overruled . He testified that the indorsement was made be- fore the note was signed ; that it was given for a fanning - mill bought by him from the ...
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... objections which have led us to reject their reasoning , and to adopt that of the opposite decisions . In the first place , they take an undue liberty with the lan- guage of contracts , and insert in them provisions which the parties ...
... objections which have led us to reject their reasoning , and to adopt that of the opposite decisions . In the first place , they take an undue liberty with the lan- guage of contracts , and insert in them provisions which the parties ...
Page 61
... objection that a contract is immoral or illegal , as be- tween plaintiff and defendant , sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant . It is not for his sake , however , that the objection is ever allowed ; but it is ...
... objection that a contract is immoral or illegal , as be- tween plaintiff and defendant , sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant . It is not for his sake , however , that the objection is ever allowed ; but it is ...
Page 94
... objected to , but upon what ground is not stated . The objection was sustained , and an exception taken . It is claimed that the object was to prove the team to have been an improper and unsafe one . But if so , the offer was not made ...
... objected to , but upon what ground is not stated . The objection was sustained , and an exception taken . It is claimed that the object was to prove the team to have been an improper and unsafe one . But if so , the offer was not made ...
Page 105
... OBJECTION THAT LAND WAS NOT SOLD IN SEPARATE PARCELS AT EXECU- TION SALE CANNOT BE TAKEN AFTER TIME FOR REDEMPTION HAS EXPIRED , either by the judgment debtor himself , by one holding a mortgage on the land , or by a purchaser under the ...
... OBJECTION THAT LAND WAS NOT SOLD IN SEPARATE PARCELS AT EXECU- TION SALE CANNOT BE TAKEN AFTER TIME FOR REDEMPTION HAS EXPIRED , either by the judgment debtor himself , by one holding a mortgage on the land , or by a purchaser under the ...
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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.
Page 354 - An act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States...