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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... sold to them , executed a bond to the plaintiff for the amount due , with warrant of attorney to confess judgment thereon ; that judgment was entered up in the supreme court on the bond the 27th of No- vember , 1819 ; that on the 3d of ...
... sold to them , executed a bond to the plaintiff for the amount due , with warrant of attorney to confess judgment thereon ; that judgment was entered up in the supreme court on the bond the 27th of No- vember , 1819 ; that on the 3d of ...
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... sold or pledged such property in good faith to a resident of another state , and placed him in possession thereof , which he has since retained , though such property was for . warded to him to prevent its recovery in an action of ...
... sold or pledged such property in good faith to a resident of another state , and placed him in possession thereof , which he has since retained , though such property was for . warded to him to prevent its recovery in an action of ...
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... sold it shortly after he got possession of it . This last statement is not sustained by the evidence . Many depositions were taken . They prove the facts before stated herein , and such additional details as are stated in the opinion of ...
... sold it shortly after he got possession of it . This last statement is not sustained by the evidence . Many depositions were taken . They prove the facts before stated herein , and such additional details as are stated in the opinion of ...
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... sold , the vendee claiming an abatement for the loss of land to which he cannot have title , the court will not fix the average price per acre of the entire tract sold as the rule of abatement , but will adopt as the measure of ...
... sold , the vendee claiming an abatement for the loss of land to which he cannot have title , the court will not fix the average price per acre of the entire tract sold as the rule of abatement , but will adopt as the measure of ...
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... sold as de- linquent and forfeited in the county of Lewis by commission- ers of delinquent and forfeited land for said county of Lewis as forfeited in the names of John Davenport and others , as by the plat constituting part of the ...
... sold as de- linquent and forfeited in the county of Lewis by commission- ers of delinquent and forfeited land for said county of Lewis as forfeited in the names of John Davenport and others , as by the plat constituting part of the ...
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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.