North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Volume 69Nichols & Gorman, book and job printers, 1873 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. |
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... error . It is said in support of his Honor's ruling that the statute should be construed as if it read , all suits upon official bonds or against executors and administrators upon their bonds shall be brought in the county where the ...
... error . It is said in support of his Honor's ruling that the statute should be construed as if it read , all suits upon official bonds or against executors and administrators upon their bonds shall be brought in the county where the ...
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... error . PER CURIAM . Judgment reversed . " HOWELL MITCHELL and wife et al . v . R. M. SLOAN , Ex'r , et al . A Judge of the Superior Court has no power to make an order authorizing a person who has been permitted to sue in forma ...
... error . PER CURIAM . Judgment reversed . " HOWELL MITCHELL and wife et al . v . R. M. SLOAN , Ex'r , et al . A Judge of the Superior Court has no power to make an order authorizing a person who has been permitted to sue in forma ...
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... error of which the defendant has a right to complain . The petition states a particular description by “ metes and bounds , " so as clearly to identify the land . The order to the commissioners is to divide the land mentioned in the ...
... error of which the defendant has a right to complain . The petition states a particular description by “ metes and bounds , " so as clearly to identify the land . The order to the commissioners is to divide the land mentioned in the ...
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... error , and it was ordered that the opinion should be certified to the Superior Court of the county of CRAVEN from which the appeal was taken . After an argument by the Attorney General for the State and Haughton for the prisoner , the ...
... error , and it was ordered that the opinion should be certified to the Superior Court of the county of CRAVEN from which the appeal was taken . After an argument by the Attorney General for the State and Haughton for the prisoner , the ...
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... error which may have escaped our attention . 2. The defendant moved in arrest of judgment " because of the uncertainty , informality and insufficiency , " of the indictment , without specifying in what the uncertainty , in- formality ...
... error which may have escaped our attention . 2. The defendant moved in arrest of judgment " because of the uncertainty , informality and insufficiency , " of the indictment , without specifying in what the uncertainty , in- formality ...
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Page 333 - The plaintiff may unite in the same complaint several causes of action whether they be such as have been heretofore denominated legal or equitable, or both, where they all arise out of, 1. The same transaction, or transactions connected with the same subject of action.
Page 502 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 500 - Laws shall be passed, taxing, by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise ; and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money...
Page 466 - ... but no suit at law or in equity shall in any case be maintainable by or against such assignee...
Page 459 - The distinction between actions at law and suits in equity, and the forms of all such actions and suits, heretofore existing, are abolished...
Page 506 - The attempt to use it on the means employed by the government of the Union in pursuance of the constitution is itself an abuse, because it is the usurpation of a power which the people of a single state cannot give.
Page 237 - In this state of discrepancy between the decided cases we think it is, at all events, a safe rule to adopt, that where the misdescription, although not proceeding from fraud, is in a material and substantial point, so far affecting the subject-matter of the contract that it may reasonably be supposed, that, but for such misdescription, the purchaser might never have entered into the contract at all, in snch case the contract is avoided altogether, and the purchaser is not bound to resort to the clause...
Page 44 - The answer of the defendant must contain: 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief. 2. A statement of any new matter constituting a defense or counterclaim, in ordinary and concise language without repetition.
Page 506 - ... they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent on the states.
Page 466 - ... no suit at law or in equity shall, in any case, be maintainable by or against such assignee, or by or against any person claiming an adverse interest, touching the property and rights of property aforesaid, in any court whatsoever, unless the same shall be brought within two years after the declaration and decree of bankruptcy, or after the cause of suit shall first have accrued.