The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volumes 23-24West Publishing Company, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. |
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... land , containing near 1,500 acres first - rate land , lying , I believe , in Ellis county , Texas . " At the date of his will , and at the time of his death , the testator was the owner of a head - right certificate for 1,476 acres ...
... land , containing near 1,500 acres first - rate land , lying , I believe , in Ellis county , Texas . " At the date of his will , and at the time of his death , the testator was the owner of a head - right certificate for 1,476 acres ...
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... lands , claiming title thereto under Kerbey , bought with notice of the fraud . Upon the trial of the case the plaintiffs , conceding that the testator at his death owned no land in Ellis county , or elsewhere in Texas , to which said ...
... lands , claiming title thereto under Kerbey , bought with notice of the fraud . Upon the trial of the case the plaintiffs , conceding that the testator at his death owned no land in Ellis county , or elsewhere in Texas , to which said ...
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... lands which , upon the face of the will , are well described . Now , if the testator had two tracts of land answering ... land , which , in some respects , was truly described in the devise , but in other respects not , parol evidence ...
... lands which , upon the face of the will , are well described . Now , if the testator had two tracts of land answering ... land , which , in some respects , was truly described in the devise , but in other respects not , parol evidence ...
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... land at all . There is , therefore , no ambiguity or imperfect description , but simply a mistake of the testator , who un- dertook to devise property of which he supposed himself to be the owner , but was not . The plaintiffs are ...
... land at all . There is , therefore , no ambiguity or imperfect description , but simply a mistake of the testator , who un- dertook to devise property of which he supposed himself to be the owner , but was not . The plaintiffs are ...
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... land for taxes , under the unconstitutional act of 1873 , cannot be sustained as a proceeding under the Code , ( sections 612 et seq . , ) be- cause the two methods of procedure for the sale of lands for taxes are radically different ...
... land for taxes , under the unconstitutional act of 1873 , cannot be sustained as a proceeding under the Code , ( sections 612 et seq . , ) be- cause the two methods of procedure for the sale of lands for taxes are radically different ...
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Page 35 - The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.
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Page 663 - In addition to the seven millions of acres of land thus provided for and bounded, the United States further guarantee to the Cherokee nation a perpetual outlet west and a free and unmolested use of all the country lying west of the western boundary of said seven millions of acres, as far west as the sovereignty of the United States and their right of soil extend.
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