Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit, Volume 5Hilliard, Gray, 1831 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... claims as proprietor , in the words following , to wit : - " Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States , for the First Circuit . Volume V. Containing the cases determined in the districts of New ...
... claims as proprietor , in the words following , to wit : - " Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States , for the First Circuit . Volume V. Containing the cases determined in the districts of New ...
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... claim to any money as earned under that contract . The money advanced is more than sufficient to pay all that is due , under the contracts for sections Nos . 11 and 12 ; and therefore we think it must be so applied in point of law , and ...
... claim to any money as earned under that contract . The money advanced is more than sufficient to pay all that is due , under the contracts for sections Nos . 11 and 12 ; and therefore we think it must be so applied in point of law , and ...
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... claiming under them by subsequent convey . ances . Where A. owned the head lot No. 18 , and sold to B. forty acres on the east end of that lot , and afterwards sold to C. by the following description ; " a certain tract or parcel of ...
... claiming under them by subsequent convey . ances . Where A. owned the head lot No. 18 , and sold to B. forty acres on the east end of that lot , and afterwards sold to C. by the following description ; " a certain tract or parcel of ...
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... claims of the parties to the first parcel of land , viz . the south part of the head lot No. 17 , were as follows . In 1788 , Samuel Eddy , under whom the plaintiff claimed the first parcel of land above mentioned , purchased a tract of ...
... claims of the parties to the first parcel of land , viz . the south part of the head lot No. 17 , were as follows . In 1788 , Samuel Eddy , under whom the plaintiff claimed the first parcel of land above mentioned , purchased a tract of ...
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... claim south of the defendant's fence , and of the line between the rock and birch tree , he pro- duced extracts from the proprietors ' records , and the copy of an ancient plat , showing , that lot No. 17 was originally of greater width ...
... claim south of the defendant's fence , and of the line between the rock and birch tree , he pro- duced extracts from the proprietors ' records , and the copy of an ancient plat , showing , that lot No. 17 was originally of greater width ...
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Page 46 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts 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 45 - But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another in any civil action before a circuit or district court...
Page 43 - Supposing however that the Act had said in terms, that though a person sued in the island had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof of nailing up the summons at the Court door; how could that be obligatory upon the subjects of other countries? Can the island of Tobago pass a law to bind the rights of the whole world?
Page 303 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Page 39 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 511 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 578 - States shall be first satisfied, and the priority hereby established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts...
Page 520 - The first act enacts, in § 3, " that all actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, all actions of trespass, detinue, action sur trover, and replevin for taking away of goods and cattle, all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants...
Page 422 - ... agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some note or memorandum thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 451 - ... and license, granted in lieu thereof, shall, within ten days after the arrival of such ship or vessel within the district, to which she belongs, be delivered to the collector of the said district, and be by him cancelled.