The N.Y. Weekly Digest of Cases Decided in the U.S. Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts, Appellate Courts of the Several States, State and City Courts of New York and English Courts, Volume 23

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Page 247 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 134 - ... made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof, made with a view to prevent the application of its assets in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or with a view to the preference of one creditor to another, except in payment of its circulating notes, shall be utterly null and void.
Page 392 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Page 513 - If an attorney dies, is removed or suspended or otherwise becomes disabled to act at any time before judgment in an action, no further proceeding shall be taken in the action against the party for whom he appeared until thirty days after notice to appoint another attorney has been given to that party either personally or in such manner as the court directs.
Page 106 - The same proceedings shall be had in all respects, the referees shall have the same powers, be entitled to the same compensation, and subject to the same control as if the reference had been made in an action in which such court might, by law, direct a reference.
Page 392 - Inventions, claimed or represented by the vendor at the time of sale to be patented, the words 'given for a patent right,' shall be prominently and legibly written or printed on the face of such note or instrument above the signature thereto; and such note or instrument In the hands of any purchaser or holder shall be subject to the same defenses as In the hands of the original owner or holder.
Page 263 - the use of general terms, or anything less than a distinct specific agreement clearly expressed and indorsed on the policy, shall not be construed as a waiver of any printed or written condition or restriction therein.
Page 392 - Whenever any promissory note or other negotiable instrument shall be given, the consideration for which shall consist in whole or in part of the right to make, use or vend any patent invention or inventions, claimed to be patented, the words,
Page 385 - Where it appears, from the complaint, that the plaintiff demands, and is entitled to a judgment against the defendant, restraining the commission or continuance of an act, the commission or continuance of which, during the pendency of the action, would produce injury to the plaintiff, an injunction order may be granted to restrain it.
Page 217 - ... his declarations made at the time of the transaction, and expressive of its character, motive, or object, are regarded as 'verbal acts, indicating a present purpose and intention,' and are therefore admitted in proof like any other material facts.

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