The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 1Bancroft-Whitney, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... action , and property of every name and nature whatever belonging to him , and which are more particularly and fully enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed , marked schedule A. " Held , that the general words of the deed were limited ...
... action , and property of every name and nature whatever belonging to him , and which are more particularly and fully enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed , marked schedule A. " Held , that the general words of the deed were limited ...
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... action for money had and received , instituted by the appellant against appellees , to recover money received by the latter in payment of a debt due them , alleged to have been assigned to the former by previous assignment of the debtor ...
... action for money had and received , instituted by the appellant against appellees , to recover money received by the latter in payment of a debt due them , alleged to have been assigned to the former by previous assignment of the debtor ...
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... Action against appellant's testator , one Byrd , to recover for services of appellee as real estate broker . Byrd employed appellee to obtain a purchaser for certain real estate . He introduced one Johnson who was willing to purchase ...
... Action against appellant's testator , one Byrd , to recover for services of appellee as real estate broker . Byrd employed appellee to obtain a purchaser for certain real estate . He introduced one Johnson who was willing to purchase ...
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... action upon it in the name of his assignor , yet he has no greater rights than the assignor possessed , and the instrument remains subject to every defense that would have existed if no assignment had taken place . The ordinary rule ...
... action upon it in the name of his assignor , yet he has no greater rights than the assignor possessed , and the instrument remains subject to every defense that would have existed if no assignment had taken place . The ordinary rule ...
Page 73
... action show that the defendant intrusted to Butterick his signature to a blank note , with authority to write over it a note of one hundred dollars for the benefit of one Henry ; that Butterick fraudulently filled up the note now in ...
... action show that the defendant intrusted to Butterick his signature to a blank note , with authority to write over it a note of one hundred dollars for the benefit of one Henry ; that Butterick fraudulently filled up the note now in ...
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Page 475 - It is not mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 59 - The right of a citizen of one State, to pass through or to reside in any other State, for purposes of trade, agriculture, professional pursuits, or otherwise ; to claim the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus ; to institute and maintain actions of any kind in the courts of the State ; to take, hold, and dispose of property, either real or personal ; and an exemption from higher taxes or impositions than are paid by the other citizens of the State...
Page 349 - State authority, at the place where such bank is located and not elsewhere, but not at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State...
Page 572 - ... except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 395 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government, all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws, of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, etc., are component parts of this mass.
Page 131 - There was no evidence in the case tending to show "that the brakeman struck the plaintiff in personal resentment of some insult offered him by the plaintiff...
Page 474 - When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished...
Page 16 - That where any conveyance shall be made of any lands or tenements by which a trust or confidence shall or may arise or result by the implication or construction of law, or be transferred or extinguished by an act...
Page 411 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Page 398 - It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it.