Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 76D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1900 - Law reports, digests, etc Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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26 Gratt action Adm'r affirmed alleged amount answer Appeal from decree appellant appellees applied assignment authority bonds C. S. Lee Caskie cause chancery choses in action circuit court claim commissioner complainant contract conveyance conveyed counsel court of equity creditors debt debtor declared deed of trust defendant delivered the opinion demurrer entitled error evidence Ex'or executed executor facts filed fraud fraudulent fund grantor Gratt Hansbrough heirs held hustings court instruction intention interest issue J. G. Brown John John Caskie Judge judgment jurisdiction jury land legislature liable lien matter ment Milly Rice object paid parties payment Penn petition plaintiff possession proceedings provision purchase money question real estate received record rent reversed Richmond rule secured Shenandoah Valley Railroad sold statute statute of limitations suit surety Syllabus-Statement term thereof tion usurious Virginia wife William William Baldwin
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Page 584 - And the said applicant hereby covenants and agrees to and with the said Company that the foregoing is a just, full and true exposition of all the facts and circumstances in regard to the condition, situation, value and risk of the property to be insured, so far as the same are known to the applicant and are material. to the risk...
Page 930 - Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the State, and all property, both real and personal, shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as directed by law. No one species of property, from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of equal value...
Page 929 - The right to take property by devise or descent is the creature of the law, and not a natural right — a privilege, and therefore the authority which confers it may impose conditions upon it.
Page x - There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
Page 145 - There is no doubt that property may be given to a man until he shall become bankrupt. It is equally clear, generally speaking, that if property is given to a man for his life, the donor cannot take away the incidents to a life estate...
Page 145 - A condition, followed by a limitation over to a third person in case the condition be not fulfilled, or there be a breach of it, is termed a conditional limitation.
Page 156 - Now, there is but one case in which it appears to us that this sort of evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise is on the face of it perfect and intelligible, but, from some of the circumstances admitted in proof, an ambiguity arises, as to which of the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express.
Page 464 - It cannot be, then, that when, in a suit between two citizens for the ownership of real estate, one of them has established his right to the possession of the property according to all the forms of judicial procedure, and by the verdict of a jury and the judgment of the court, the wrongful possessor can say successfully to the court, Stop here; I hold by order of the president, and the progress of justice must be stayed.
Page 722 - 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 882 - That whenever a question arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it have a right to resort to any Opinion of the Court.