Judgments Delivered in the Courts of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, Volume 2Little, Brown and Company, 1877 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... refused . They then proved the supposed amount of the debt owed by B. to A. against B.'s estate in bankruptcy . Held , they had no provable debt , and were not creditors of B. at the date of the bankruptcy . Whether the lien which they ...
... refused . They then proved the supposed amount of the debt owed by B. to A. against B.'s estate in bankruptcy . Held , they had no provable debt , and were not creditors of B. at the date of the bankruptcy . Whether the lien which they ...
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... refused to pay the bill , saying , that the master had been dis- placed . The claimants in their answer denied that Captain Grant was master of the vessel at the dates mentioned in the libel , and alleged that the owners were known to ...
... refused to pay the bill , saying , that the master had been dis- placed . The claimants in their answer denied that Captain Grant was master of the vessel at the dates mentioned in the libel , and alleged that the owners were known to ...
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... refused , was the principal dispute of fact ; though the extent of the injury to the rudder was not fully agreed . G. H. Palmer , for the libellant . By the laws of Massachu- setts , the libellant has earned his fee , whether his ...
... refused , was the principal dispute of fact ; though the extent of the injury to the rudder was not fully agreed . G. H. Palmer , for the libellant . By the laws of Massachu- setts , the libellant has earned his fee , whether his ...
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... refused to employ him , alleging that the ship was not fit to be navigated by the power of her sails alone , and that the master had gone on shore for a pilot and a tug ; which was true . The libellant made continual claim , so to speak ...
... refused to employ him , alleging that the ship was not fit to be navigated by the power of her sails alone , and that the master had gone on shore for a pilot and a tug ; which was true . The libellant made continual claim , so to speak ...
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... refused . Libel dismissed without costs . Re JOHN E. DUPEE . APRIL , 1871 . The district court , sitting in bankruptcy , has the power to recall a final decree , grant- ing a discharge to a bankrupt , upon application made during the ...
... refused . Libel dismissed without costs . Re JOHN E. DUPEE . APRIL , 1871 . The district court , sitting in bankruptcy , has the power to recall a final decree , grant- ing a discharge to a bankrupt , upon application made during the ...
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Page 368 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 165 - no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another, in any civil action, * * * and no civil suit • shall be brought * * * against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ.
Page 367 - If, on such hearing, he deems the evidence sufficient to sustain the charge under the provisions of the proper treaty or convention, he shall certify the same, together with a copy of all the testimony taken before him, to the Secretary of State, that a warrant may issue upon the requisition of the proper authorities of such foreign government, for the surrender of such person, according to the stipulations of the treaty or convention; and he shall issue his warrant for the commitment of the person...
Page 257 - Sales, 1st ed. 424, 2d ed. § 568, that " a mere assertion that the party will be unable, or will refuse to perform his contract, is not sufficient ; it must be a distinct and unequivocal absolute refusal to perform the promise, and must be treated and acted upon as such by the party to whom the promise was made ; for, if he afterwards continue to urge or demand a compliance with the contract, it is plain that he does not understand it to be at an end.
Page 501 - if a tenant remain in possession after the expiration of his term, and perform all the conditions of the lease, it amounts to a renewal of the lease from year to year, and I take it he would be entitled to remove fixtures during the year.
Page 256 - But in that case he keeps the contract alive for the benefit of the other party as well as his own; he remains subject to all his own obligations and liabilities under it, and enables the other party, not only to complete the contract, if so advised, notwithstanding his previous repudiation of it. but also to take advantage of any supervening circumstance which would justify him in declining to complete it.
Page 113 - no friend to the almost indiscriminate habit of late years, of setting up particular usages or customs in almost all kinds of business and trade, to control, vary, or annul the general liabilities of parties under the common law, as well as under the commercial law.
Page 267 - Nor shall any person be prosecuted, tried or punished for any misdemeanor or other indictable offense.
Page 530 - ... mode of their performance, to the law of the place of their performance. But the lex fori determines when and how such laws, when foreign, are to be adopted, and, in all cases not specified above, supplies the applicatory law.
Page 460 - It is plain that such a doctrine virtually prevents a trader from mortgaging his stock at any time for any useful purpose ; for if he cannot sell in the ordinary course of trade, or only as the trustee and agent of the mortgagee, he might as well give possession to the mortgagee at once and go out of business. In this case he never could have begun business, for the whole stock was supplied by the defendant. I would refer in this connection to the very able opinions of Judge Dillon in Hughes v. Cory,...