Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, New Series, Volume 8Hale and Phelan, printers, 1846 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Clerk of the County Court of Tuskaloosa county , for $ 2,489 70 , besides costs ; for the purpose of sustaining that part of the deed which asserts the existence of a note described in the deed , as due that bank . To this the plaintiff ...
... Clerk of the County Court of Tuskaloosa county , for $ 2,489 70 , besides costs ; for the purpose of sustaining that part of the deed which asserts the existence of a note described in the deed , as due that bank . To this the plaintiff ...
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... Circuit Court of Perry county , con- taining the description of a note by Tarrant & Hopkins to Wi- ley , Lane & Co. , for $ 1,423 04 , dated 15th April , 1840 , due eleven months after date , with current rate of exchange , with- out ...
... Circuit Court of Perry county , con- taining the description of a note by Tarrant & Hopkins to Wi- ley , Lane & Co. , for $ 1,423 04 , dated 15th April , 1840 , due eleven months after date , with current rate of exchange , with- out ...
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... Court , against the other parties to the judgment , and their sureties . Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery . THIS was a proceeding upon the settlement of the estate of Joseph Fitzpatrick . The defendant in error presented a ...
... Court , against the other parties to the judgment , and their sureties . Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery . THIS was a proceeding upon the settlement of the estate of Joseph Fitzpatrick . The defendant in error presented a ...
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... Circuit Court of Sumter . ASSUMPSIT , by Williamson , against the defendant , as the ma- ker of a promissory note . At the trial , upon the general issue , the defendant produced evidence tending to prove , that she and one David Wall ...
... Circuit Court of Sumter . ASSUMPSIT , by Williamson , against the defendant , as the ma- ker of a promissory note . At the trial , upon the general issue , the defendant produced evidence tending to prove , that she and one David Wall ...
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... Court erred in both the charges given to the jury , and its judg- ment is therefore reversed and the cause remanded . Hodges v . The State . the case were such. HODGES v . THE STATE . 1. It is competent for the clerk of a Circuit Court ...
... Court erred in both the charges given to the jury , and its judg- ment is therefore reversed and the cause remanded . Hodges v . The State . the case were such. HODGES v . THE STATE . 1. It is competent for the clerk of a Circuit Court ...
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Page 892 - Mississippi, and the navigable waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free as well to the inhabitants of said State, as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the said State of Iowa.
Page 804 - The party's own admission, whenever made, may be given in evidence against him ; but the admission or declaration of his agent binds him only when it is made during the continuance of the agency in regard to a transaction then depending, et dum fervet opus.
Page 839 - The Judiciary power of every Government looks beyond its own local or municipal laws, and in civil cases lays hold of all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, though the causes of dispute are relative to the laws of the most distant part of the globe.
Page 178 - ... and the same shall be conclusive evidence of itself in favor of such bankrupt, unless the same shall be impeached for some fraud or wilful concealment by him of his property or rights of property, as aforesaid, contrary to the provisions of this act, on prior reasonable notice specifying in writing such fraud or concealment...
Page 383 - If a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money, or other act, is to be performed, an action may be brought for the money, or for not doing such other act before performance; for it appears that the party relied upon his remedy, and did not intend to make the performance a condition precedent...
Page 835 - States; and such discharge and certificate, when duly granted, shall in all courts of justice be deemed a full and complete discharge of all debts, contracts and other engagements of such bankrupt which are provable under this act...
Page 564 - A. is to contribute neither labor nor money, and, to go still further, not to receive any profits. But if he will lend his name as a partner, he becomes, as against all the rest of the world, a partner...
Page 349 - ... from the truth of that intent. In all such cases if the mistake is clearly made out by proofs entirely satisfactory, equity will reform the contract so as to make it conformable to the precise intent of the parties.
Page 135 - The plaintiff was the wife of defendant's brother, but had for some time been a widow, and had several children. In 1840, the plaintiff resided on public land, under a contract of lease, she had held over, and was comfortably settled, and would have attempted to secure the land she lived on. The defendant resided in Talladega county, some sixty, or seventy miles off. On the 10th October, 1840, he wrote to her the following letter: "Dear sister Antillico — Much to my mortification, I heard, that...
Page 223 - We speak familiarly of equitable set-off, as distinguished from the set-off at law ; but it will be found that this equitable set-off exists in cases where the party seeking the benefit of it can show some equitable ground for being protected against his adversary's demand.