The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 8Samuel Owen Samuel Owen, 1850 - Law |
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... CORPORATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH , MARGARET WARNER and others . Bill by executors , for the construction of a devise to a religious corporation for a charitable use . Held , that the act of 1784 , under which the corporation ...
... CORPORATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH , MARGARET WARNER and others . Bill by executors , for the construction of a devise to a religious corporation for a charitable use . Held , that the act of 1784 , under which the corporation ...
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... Corporation of the Methodist Church , the questions growing out of the will being intricate , and the decisions respecting them contradictory , the executors who have received and are receiving moneys under it , which they can neither ...
... Corporation of the Methodist Church , the questions growing out of the will being intricate , and the decisions respecting them contradictory , the executors who have received and are receiving moneys under it , which they can neither ...
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... Corporation of the Methodist Church is valid . 1. The corporation intended by the will is confessedly the one whose legal title is " The Trustees for the Corporation of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church in the City of New - York , " and ...
... Corporation of the Methodist Church is valid . 1. The corporation intended by the will is confessedly the one whose legal title is " The Trustees for the Corporation of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church in the City of New - York , " and ...
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... Corporation of the Methodist Church in trust , and to be account- ed for to it by the executors . VI . An injunction is required not only in consequence of the mul- tiplicity of suits threatened at law , but because charities are ...
... Corporation of the Methodist Church in trust , and to be account- ed for to it by the executors . VI . An injunction is required not only in consequence of the mul- tiplicity of suits threatened at law , but because charities are ...
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... corporation itself cannot manifestly hold for its own use , it follows that the heirs at law of the testator are entitled to the estate , with all the accumulations , and to have an account as claimed in their answer . Van Kleeck v ...
... corporation itself cannot manifestly hold for its own use , it follows that the heirs at law of the testator are entitled to the estate , with all the accumulations , and to have an account as claimed in their answer . Van Kleeck v ...
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Page 3 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God...
Page 4 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 153 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 154 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 3 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Page 199 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted. A person, with whom or in whose name, a contract is made for the benefit of another, is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 49 - That the forms of writs, executions and other process, except their style, and the forms and modes of proceeding in suits, in those of common law shall be the same as are now used in the said Courts respectively in pursuance of the Act entitled: "An Act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States...
Page 107 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 107 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Page 260 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.