The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 7Samuel Owen Samuel Owen, 1849 - Law |
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... directed to be deemed part of the perso- nal estate , to pay the legacy in question and other legacies . The Court of King's Bench granted the prohibition , because the assets were equitable , and Lord Tenterden added , that the ...
... directed to be deemed part of the perso- nal estate , to pay the legacy in question and other legacies . The Court of King's Bench granted the prohibition , because the assets were equitable , and Lord Tenterden added , that the ...
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... directing the magistrate to send them up , on a mere requisi- tion of the officer allowing the habeas corpus . I have thus taken occasion to express my dissent from the doctrines asserted in the note to 3 Hill's Reports , and more than ...
... directing the magistrate to send them up , on a mere requisi- tion of the officer allowing the habeas corpus . I have thus taken occasion to express my dissent from the doctrines asserted in the note to 3 Hill's Reports , and more than ...
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... directing that they deliver the same to the receiver . The referee in the same order declared , that at the time of the execution of the assign- VOL . VII . 8 N. Y. Supreme Court . - Sheldon and others v THE NEW - YORK LEGAL OBSERVER . 57 :
... directing that they deliver the same to the receiver . The referee in the same order declared , that at the time of the execution of the assign- VOL . VII . 8 N. Y. Supreme Court . - Sheldon and others v THE NEW - YORK LEGAL OBSERVER . 57 :
Page 58
... directed that Nathaniel T. Weeks deliver that sum over to the receiver . A motion is now made on be- half of the defendants , for an order that the referee review his decision . After a careful perusal of the mass of evidence taken upon ...
... directed that Nathaniel T. Weeks deliver that sum over to the receiver . A motion is now made on be- half of the defendants , for an order that the referee review his decision . After a careful perusal of the mass of evidence taken upon ...
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... directed a clause to be inserted excepting such articles as by law would have been exempt from sale or execution against Nathaniel T. Weeks , and the assign- ment was executed with such exception . A motion is now made on behalf of the ...
... directed a clause to be inserted excepting such articles as by law would have been exempt from sale or execution against Nathaniel T. Weeks , and the assign- ment was executed with such exception . A motion is now made on behalf of the ...
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Page 281 - ... and if, after such cause of action shall have accrued, such person shall depart from and reside out of this state, the time of his absence shall not be deemed or taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of such action.
Page 90 - ... to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or...
Page 66 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals ; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.
Page 289 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Page 130 - ... or arrested, doth, under the laws of the state or territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor to the state or territory from which he or she fled.
Page 277 - ... supply plaintiff with certain articles. Breach : that defendant did not nor would, within twelve months from the said day, to wit, the day and year aforesaid, supply the articles.
Page 130 - That when a person held to labour in any of the United States, or in either of the territories on the northwest or south of the river Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape...
Page 87 - No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action.
Page 159 - ... he who bargains in a matter of advantage with a person placing a confidence in him, is bound to show that a reasonable use has been made of that confidence, a rule applying equally to all persons standing in confidential relations with each other.
Page 289 - When the decision of a court of inferior jurisdiction in a special proceeding, shall be brought before the supreme court for review, such proceeding shall, for all purposes of costs, be deemed an action at issue, on a question of law, from the time the same shall be brought into the supreme court, and costs thereon shall be awarded and collected in such manner as the court shall direct, according to the nature of the case.