Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fourth Circuit; Most of Them Since Chief Justice Waite Came Upon the Bench; and of Selected Cases in Admiralty and Bankruptcy, Decided in the District Courts of that Circuit. With an Appendix to the Second Volume, Containing the Rules in Admiralty and Bankruptcy;, of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Rules of the Circuit Court for that District, Etc., Etc, Volume 1W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1877 - Admiralty |
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... present volumes . I have also incorporated a decision of Chief Justice Ellsworth never before published in permanent form , and two other cases , from François Xavier Martin's Notes of North Carolina Decisions , published in 1797 . This ...
... present volumes . I have also incorporated a decision of Chief Justice Ellsworth never before published in permanent form , and two other cases , from François Xavier Martin's Notes of North Carolina Decisions , published in 1797 . This ...
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... present bill . A fatal objection to this request is that now that the trustees have undertaken by legal means to foreclose this mortgage , no bondholder has a right to proceed in his own name to foreclose . He can ask the aid of a court ...
... present bill . A fatal objection to this request is that now that the trustees have undertaken by legal means to foreclose this mortgage , no bondholder has a right to proceed in his own name to foreclose . He can ask the aid of a court ...
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... presents the principal question in the case for our consideration . The law provides only for the acknowledgment of a deed before a notary public . It does not require , in express terms certainly , that he shall be disinterested . A ...
... presents the principal question in the case for our consideration . The law provides only for the acknowledgment of a deed before a notary public . It does not require , in express terms certainly , that he shall be disinterested . A ...
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... present form , and not knowing that the certifying officer was interested in the conveyance , would cer- tainly be justified in putting it on record . The deed itself did not carry notice to him of the supposed disqualification any more ...
... present form , and not knowing that the certifying officer was interested in the conveyance , would cer- tainly be justified in putting it on record . The deed itself did not carry notice to him of the supposed disqualification any more ...
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... present bill in chancery is brought to impeach the valid- ity of this third deed of trust , made in favor of the State Bank of Virginia , and to set it aside as void under the first clause of the 35th section of the General Bankruptcy ...
... present bill in chancery is brought to impeach the valid- ity of this third deed of trust , made in favor of the State Bank of Virginia , and to set it aside as void under the first clause of the 35th section of the General Bankruptcy ...
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Page 258 - It is agreed that creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 550 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.
Page 427 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
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Page 545 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
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