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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... possession at the time of the action brought with that at the death of her father , and to show , that she had continued in the exercise of her right , and had not waived or abandoned it . It is unnecessary to give a name to the ...
... possession at the time of the action brought with that at the death of her father , and to show , that she had continued in the exercise of her right , and had not waived or abandoned it . It is unnecessary to give a name to the ...
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... possession or otherwise . The judgment of the county court is therefore affirmed . PRECATORY WORDS IN WILLS : See Harrisons v . Harrison's Adm'x , 44 Am . Dec. 365 , and note , where the subject is fully discussed . DEVISE OF ONE ROOM ...
... possession or otherwise . The judgment of the county court is therefore affirmed . PRECATORY WORDS IN WILLS : See Harrisons v . Harrison's Adm'x , 44 Am . Dec. 365 , and note , where the subject is fully discussed . DEVISE OF ONE ROOM ...
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... possession from her . The ground , on which he first claimed to keep possession of the paper , was clearly without any legal or just foundation . Lewis Keeler derived no right , from his mere relation to the plaintiff , to make a sale ...
... possession from her . The ground , on which he first claimed to keep possession of the paper , was clearly without any legal or just foundation . Lewis Keeler derived no right , from his mere relation to the plaintiff , to make a sale ...
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... possession is continued from year to year , and rent is paid semiannually . TENANT AT WILL , BECOMING TENANT FROM YEAR TO YEAR , can not at any time during year , at pleasure , surrender the premises against landlord's consent , and ...
... possession is continued from year to year , and rent is paid semiannually . TENANT AT WILL , BECOMING TENANT FROM YEAR TO YEAR , can not at any time during year , at pleasure , surrender the premises against landlord's consent , and ...
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... possession , under the parol agreement , and the occupancy was continued until the twenty - first or twenty - second of July , 1844 , when the de- fendant quit the possession of the store , and offered to give up the key and the possession ...
... possession , under the parol agreement , and the occupancy was continued until the twenty - first or twenty - second of July , 1844 , when the de- fendant quit the possession of the store , and offered to give up the key and the possession ...
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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...