The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869, Volume 52Bancroft-Whitney, 1886 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... amount of mental capacity is sufficient , to enable one to dispose of property by will . The rule laid down by the judge in this case , in summing up to the jury , seems to have been rather a medium one , rather sensible and judicious ...
... amount of mental capacity is sufficient , to enable one to dispose of property by will . The rule laid down by the judge in this case , in summing up to the jury , seems to have been rather a medium one , rather sensible and judicious ...
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... amount he had paid towards the prem- ises , and also the amount due Manly , according to his decrec of foreclosure . Slason and Ormsbee failed to pay Slason's notes , and Manly assigned them to the orator Lathrop . The prayer was for a ...
... amount he had paid towards the prem- ises , and also the amount due Manly , according to his decrec of foreclosure . Slason and Ormsbee failed to pay Slason's notes , and Manly assigned them to the orator Lathrop . The prayer was for a ...
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... amount due on Slason's notes , and in default thereof , that the orators hold the premises absolutely , in satisfaction of so much of the amount due as should be equal to the value of the premises . Defendants appealed from this decree ...
... amount due on Slason's notes , and in default thereof , that the orators hold the premises absolutely , in satisfaction of so much of the amount due as should be equal to the value of the premises . Defendants appealed from this decree ...
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... amount to a waiver of a lien , it must be to some extent inconsistent with the con- tinued existence of such lien , and thus show a virtual under- standing between the parties , that the lien shall be waived . We should not be prepared ...
... amount to a waiver of a lien , it must be to some extent inconsistent with the con- tinued existence of such lien , and thus show a virtual under- standing between the parties , that the lien shall be waived . We should not be prepared ...
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... amount for which it had been pledged , and at the same time denying Lewis Keeler's right to sell or pledge it ; but the defendant refused to accept the sum offered and surrender the writ , because he had been served with process in ...
... amount for which it had been pledged , and at the same time denying Lewis Keeler's right to sell or pledge it ; but the defendant refused to accept the sum offered and surrender the writ , because he had been served with process in ...
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Page 393 - 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 a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 324 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens or acquire those of citizens of the United States, but they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have elected...
Page 324 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.
Page 325 - The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 185 - It is upon the same ground that equity interferes in cases of written agreements where there has been an innocent omission or insertion of a material stipulation contrary to the intention of both parties and under a mutual mistake.
Page 111 - ... have been and are devised and contrived of malice, fraud, covin, collusion, or guile, to the end, purpose, and intent to delay, hinder or defraud creditors and others of their just and lawful actions...
Page 296 - To enable this court then to issue a mandamus, it must be shown to be an exercise of appellate jurisdiction, or to be necessary to enable them to exercise appellate jurisdiction.
Page 731 - It is that state of the case which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 327 - Foreigners who are, or who may hereafter become bona fide residents of this State, shall enjoy the same rights in respect to the possession, enjoyment, and inheritance of property, as native born citizens.
Page 730 - If the jury shall find the defendant guilty, or if the defendant pleads only not guilty by reason of insanity, then the question whether the defendant was sane or insane at the time the offense was committed shall be promptly tried...