Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia: (general Term,) at the April and September Terms of 1873 [to the September Term, 1879, Inclusive], Volume 9W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1877 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... action as in a case where fraud is charged , or relief asked from an unconscientious advantage obtained by the defend- ant , for which the purchase should be set aside . There is no suggestion even in the bill that the defendant did not ...
... action as in a case where fraud is charged , or relief asked from an unconscientious advantage obtained by the defend- ant , for which the purchase should be set aside . There is no suggestion even in the bill that the defendant did not ...
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... action of slander had been commenced against the grantor and his wife , ( now the widow , ) and that the conveyance was executed to defendant to protect the real estate therein from the result of said action at law , upon an agreement ...
... action of slander had been commenced against the grantor and his wife , ( now the widow , ) and that the conveyance was executed to defendant to protect the real estate therein from the result of said action at law , upon an agreement ...
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... action for alleged slander against said John Fletcher , deceased , and your complainant , Bridget , his wife ; said action being No. 10923 at law , as will more fully appear , reference being had to the proceedings in said cause . That ...
... action for alleged slander against said John Fletcher , deceased , and your complainant , Bridget , his wife ; said action being No. 10923 at law , as will more fully appear , reference being had to the proceedings in said cause . That ...
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... action for slander was never brought to trial , but was dismissed by the plaintiff . We are of opinion , however , that this fact is not of itself sufficient to justify the court to set aside a deed which the bill itself avers was made ...
... action for slander was never brought to trial , but was dismissed by the plaintiff . We are of opinion , however , that this fact is not of itself sufficient to justify the court to set aside a deed which the bill itself avers was made ...
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... action is by the husband for the loss of service . The judge instructed the jury that the passenger had a right to presume that the train had stopped , and that the cry of " Washington " was made by the agent of the company . That it ...
... action is by the husband for the loss of service . The judge instructed the jury that the passenger had a right to presume that the train had stopped , and that the cry of " Washington " was made by the agent of the company . That it ...
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Page 407 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
Page 300 - ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence.
Page 106 - Whenever a patent on application is refused, either by the commissioner of patents or by the supreme court of the district of Columbia upon appeal from the commissioner, the applicant may have remedy by bill In equity; and the court having cognizance thereof, on notice to adverse parties and other due proceedings had...
Page 376 - ... setting forth his place of residence, his inability to pay all his debts in full, his willingness to surrender all his estate and effects for the benefit of his creditors...
Page 152 - And the thing invented or produced, for which a patent is given, is that which gives a peculiar or distinctive appearance to the manufacture, or article to which it may be applied, or to which it gives form. The law manifestly contemplates that giving certain new and original appearances to a manufactured article may enhance its salable value, may enlarge the demand for it, and may be a meritorious service to the public.
Page 511 - ... hereafter created against the State under any agreement or contract made without express authority of law; and all such unauthorized agreements or contracts shall be null and void: Provided, the General Assembly may make appropriations for expenditures incurred in suppressing insurrection or repelling invasion.
Page 395 - The High Contracting Parties hereby engage to consider the decision of the Commissioners as absolutely final and conclusive upon each claim decided upon by them, and to give full effect to such decisions without any objection, evasion, or delay whatsoever.
Page 547 - If there be no express promise, but a promise is to be raised by implication of law from the acknowledgment of the party, such acknowledgment ought to contain an unqualified and direct admission of a previous, subsisting debt, which the party is liable and willing to pay. If there be accompanying circumstances, which repel the presumption of a promise or intention to pay; if the expressions be equivocal, vague, and indeterminate, leading to no certain conclusion, but at best to probable inferences,...
Page 26 - Whenever an application is made for a patent which. in the opinion of the commissioner, would interfere with any pending application...
Page 46 - When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, the personal safety of the passengers should not be left to the sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. Any negligence, in such cases, may well deserve the epithet of 'gross.