Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Volume 37E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1860 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... ground , that said proceed- ings were in other respects informal , irregular , and illegal ; which exception to said transcript as evidence in the cause , showing authority on the part of said Anderson , administrator as aforesaid , to ...
... ground , that said proceed- ings were in other respects informal , irregular , and illegal ; which exception to said transcript as evidence in the cause , showing authority on the part of said Anderson , administrator as aforesaid , to ...
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... ground of error assigned proceeds on the assump- tion that this proceeding is to be regulated , at least to some extent , by the Act of 1822 , Hutch . Code , p . 580. This is a mistake , we think . The proceeding is under the provisions ...
... ground of error assigned proceeds on the assump- tion that this proceeding is to be regulated , at least to some extent , by the Act of 1822 , Hutch . Code , p . 580. This is a mistake , we think . The proceeding is under the provisions ...
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... ground upon which it is contended that that instruction was correct is , that it was necessary , to give the Pro- bate Court jurisdiction to order the sale of the real estate upon the representation of insolvency of the personal estate ...
... ground upon which it is contended that that instruction was correct is , that it was necessary , to give the Pro- bate Court jurisdiction to order the sale of the real estate upon the representation of insolvency of the personal estate ...
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... ground for issuing process , requiring the parties interested to show cause , not that the court shall not order the process upon other sufficient evidence , showing to the satisfaction of the court that the personal estate is ...
... ground for issuing process , requiring the parties interested to show cause , not that the court shall not order the process upon other sufficient evidence , showing to the satisfaction of the court that the personal estate is ...
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... ground that he acted innocently , without notice , and under an authority apparently valid . There are two propositions relied on to support the payment of legacies after notice that the heir has commenced proceedings to invalidate the ...
... ground that he acted innocently , without notice , and under an authority apparently valid . There are two propositions relied on to support the payment of legacies after notice that the heir has commenced proceedings to invalidate the ...
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Page 267 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.
Page 249 - States legal tender notes. And when any of said notes may be redeemed or be received into the Treasury under any law from any source whatever and shall belong to the United States, they shall not be retired...
Page 230 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 49 - ... public trial by an impartial jury. He shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, but by due course of law.
Page 267 - ... in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.
Page 324 - And these may be reduced to three principal or primary articles ; the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty and the right of private property...
Page 53 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings which shall not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party, and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 230 - In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument.
Page 238 - International Law, as understood among civilized nations, may be defined as consisting of those rules of conduct which reason deduces, as consonant to justice, from the nature of the society existing among independent nations ; with such definitions and modifications as may be established by general consent.
Page 30 - The granting the license to sell is an adjudication upon all the facts necessary to give jurisdiction, and whether they existed or not, is wholly immaterial, if no appeal is taken ; the rule is the same whether the law gives an appeal or not: if none is given from the final decree, it is conclusive on all whom it concerns.