Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 3D. Ferguson, printer, 1835 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... refused . The complai- nants charge that this extension of credit was given to Garner without their knowledge or consent ; that before this contract was entered into by Garner , a judgment at law had been obtained against them , the ...
... refused . The complai- nants charge that this extension of credit was given to Garner without their knowledge or consent ; that before this contract was entered into by Garner , a judgment at law had been obtained against them , the ...
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... refused that The Planter's price , and shipped it to New York in hopes to do better , and Mercht's . and that it neated him only about 7 cents . Mastin , an- B'k of Hunts . ville . other witness , declined also having his cotton sold in ...
... refused that The Planter's price , and shipped it to New York in hopes to do better , and Mercht's . and that it neated him only about 7 cents . Mastin , an- B'k of Hunts . ville . other witness , declined also having his cotton sold in ...
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... refused this instruction , and charg- ed the jury , that if they believed the witness held the note as agent or attorney of the plaintiff , and made an agreement with the defendant to take a note or debt due from him- self in payment of ...
... refused this instruction , and charg- ed the jury , that if they believed the witness held the note as agent or attorney of the plaintiff , and made an agreement with the defendant to take a note or debt due from him- self in payment of ...
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... refusal to pay to the indorser , are rendered unnecessary . By this statute the indorsee may sue the maker and indorser in the same action , whether it be debt , covenant or assumpsit , provided suit be brought to the first Court of the ...
... refusal to pay to the indorser , are rendered unnecessary . By this statute the indorsee may sue the maker and indorser in the same action , whether it be debt , covenant or assumpsit , provided suit be brought to the first Court of the ...
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... refusing to receive part only , C. received the remainder and paid A. for the whole . This amounts to a conversion by A. , for which B. can maintain trover against him . In the Circuit Court of Shelby county , Allen Bullard brought an ...
... refusing to receive part only , C. received the remainder and paid A. for the whole . This amounts to a conversion by A. , for which B. can maintain trover against him . In the Circuit Court of Shelby county , Allen Bullard brought an ...
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Page 218 - And the said records and judicial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 218 - ... the records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state shall be proved or admitted, in any other court within the United States, by attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, as the case may be, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 482 - A party is not to cast himself upon an obstruction which has been made by the fault of another, and avail himself of it, if he do not himself use common and ordinary caution to be in the right.
Page 130 - or other cattle," being looked upon as much too loose to create a capital offence, the act was held to extend to nothing but mere sheep. And therefore, in the next sessions, it was found necessary to make another statute, 15 Geo. II, c. 34, extending the former to bulls, cows, oxen, steers, bullocks, heifers, calves and lambs, by name.
Page 81 - That an alien can take by deed, and can hold until office found, must now be regarded as a positive rule of law, so well established that the reason of the rule is little more than a subject for the antiquary.
Page 198 - Every surveyor shall note in his field book, the true situations of all mines, salt licks, salt springs, and mill seats, which shall come to his knowledge; all water courses, over which the line he runs shall pass; and also the quality of the lands...
Page 416 - I take it to be a clear position, that if a legislative act oppugns a constitutional principle, the former must give way, and be rejected on the score of repugnance. I hold it to be a position equally clear and sound, that in such case, it will be the duty of the Court to adhere to the constitution, and to declare the act null and void.
Page 490 - ... all, and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of action, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts...
Page 218 - The records and judicial proceedings of the. courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with the certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 417 - The powers of the Government of the State of Kentucky shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit : those which are Legislative to one ; those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judiciary to another.