Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Volume 16

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Edward O. Jenkins, 1855 - Equity
 

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Page 125 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 313 - Such of the said directors, who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act whereby the same was so contracted or created, may respectively exonerate themselves from being so liable, by forthwith...
Page 104 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense in order to convict the offender.
Page 547 - ... forth observed ; so that they to whom the land was given under " such condition shall have no power to aliene the land so given, " but that it shall remain unto the issue of them to whom it was " given after their death, or shall revert unto the giver or his
Page 328 - ... private capacities ; and an action of debt may, in such case, be brought against them, or any of them, their or any of their heirs, executors or administrators, in any court of...
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Page 261 - Those which are legislative to one, those which are executive to another, and those which are judicial to another; and no person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly attached to either of the others, except in the instances herein expressly permitted.
Page 493 - All the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal, and wherever situated...
Page 289 - The total amount of debts which the said corporation shall at any time owe, whether by bond, bill, note, or other contract...
Page 287 - In case of excess, the directors under whose administration it shall happen, shall be liable for the same in their natural and private capacities ; and an action of debt may in such case be brought against them, or any...

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