The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 8Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1889 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... filed his bond as sheriff of the county ; and not July 9 , 1879 , the time the contest for the office was finally judicially determined by the supreme court of appeals . The defendant was appointed to hold the office until his successor ...
... filed his bond as sheriff of the county ; and not July 9 , 1879 , the time the contest for the office was finally judicially determined by the supreme court of appeals . The defendant was appointed to hold the office until his successor ...
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... filed their joint answer to the bill , averring the recovery of the judgment in the name of Ward for their use , and admitting the insolvency of the defendant , and that he had left the state , but denying that the $ 1,055 was due to ...
... filed their joint answer to the bill , averring the recovery of the judgment in the name of Ward for their use , and admitting the insolvency of the defendant , and that he had left the state , but denying that the $ 1,055 was due to ...
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... filing special bail , without a writ or declaration or a cognovit actionem , for $ 5,755.60 collateral security for indorsements then made and thereafter to be made for J. and Z. T. , and for money then due or thereafter to be due ...
... filing special bail , without a writ or declaration or a cognovit actionem , for $ 5,755.60 collateral security for indorsements then made and thereafter to be made for J. and Z. T. , and for money then due or thereafter to be due ...
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... filed his bill and obtained an injunc- tion . The chancellor said : " Under the circumstances of the case , the defendant was not obliged to delay the collection of his debt until he could apply the proceeds of the Jersey prop- erty ...
... filed his bill and obtained an injunc- tion . The chancellor said : " Under the circumstances of the case , the defendant was not obliged to delay the collection of his debt until he could apply the proceeds of the Jersey prop- erty ...
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... Barbour on the fifth day of March , 1881 , a copy of which is filed as an exhibit with the answer of the de- fendants in this cause . " As to the reversal of the decree with costs , 28 [ W. Virginia , HUDKINS v . WARD .
... Barbour on the fifth day of March , 1881 , a copy of which is filed as an exhibit with the answer of the de- fendants in this cause . " As to the reversal of the decree with costs , 28 [ W. Virginia , HUDKINS v . WARD .
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Page 386 - ... aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money or other personal property ever be made by the State or any such public corporation to any church or for any sectarian purpose.
Page 640 - Stock (Sec. 5201). —No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...
Page 672 - ... the southeast quarter of section 29; the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32; the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter...
Page 715 - First — After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath to my two daughters, Mary L.
Page 417 - ... said party of the first part, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns...
Page 257 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 386 - Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever...
Page 279 - Such notes, made payable to the order of the maker thereof, or to the order of a fictitious person, shall, if negotiated by the maker, have the same effect and be of the same validity as against the maker and all persons having knowledge of the facts as if payable to bearer.
Page 81 - The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.
Page 554 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.