Case of Catharine N. Forrest, Plaintiff, Against Edwin Forrest, Defendant: Containing the Record in the Superior Court of the City of New York, the Opinions in that Court, the Statement and Points for Each Party in the Court of Appeals and the Judgment of the Latter Court ...

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1863 - Divorce suits - 1232 pages
 

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Page 19 - ... he has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof; that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to matters therein stated to be alleged upon information and belief, and that as to those matters he believes it to be true.
Page 667 - When the words are not explicit the intention is to be collected from the context ; from the occasion and necessity of the law; from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed according to what is consonant with reason and good discretion.
Page 23 - On motion of counsel for the plaintiff it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed, and this court by virtue of the power and authority therein vested, and in pursuance of the...
Page 556 - CD, defendant, on the part of the plaintiff (or defendant), and for a failure to attend, you will be deemed "guilty of a contempt of court, and liable to pay all loss and damages sustained thereby to the party aggrieved, and forfeit fifty dollars in addition thereto.
Page 621 - ... he is a resident of, and intends always to reside in the United States, and to become a citizen thereof, as soon as he can be naturalized, and that he has taken such incipient measures as the laws of the United States require to enable him to obtain naturalization...
Page 670 - No person shall be arrested in a civil action, except as prescribed by this act...
Page 671 - ... render himself amenable to the process of the court during the pendency of the action, and such as may be issued to enforce the judgment therein...
Page 661 - If a case shall arise in which an action for the enforcement or protection of a right, or the redress or prevention of a wrong...
Page 667 - It is an established rule in the exposition of statutes that the intention of the lawgiver is to be deduced from a view of the whole and of every part of a statute taken and compared together.
Page 13 - In all cases of a verification of a pleading, the affidavit of the party must state that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters which are therein stated on his information or belief, and as to those matters, that he believes it to be true...

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