Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature, and in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors of the State of New York [1828-1841], Volume 24Gould, Banks & Company, 1850 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 342 - The trial by jury in all cases in which it has been heretofore used shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law.
Page 44 - In the following cases every agreement shall be void unless such agreement, or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith : 1 . Every agreement that, by its terms, is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof.
Page 121 - ... unless the same be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and be followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things sold, mortgaged or assigned, shall be presumed to be fraudulent and void, as against the creditors of the vendor, or the creditors of the person making such assignment, or subsequent purchasers in good faith...
Page 200 - I.), c. 34, it was enacted that 'if a wife willingly leave her husband, and go away, and continue with her advouterer, she shall be barred forever of action to demand her dower...
Page 552 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life...
Page 200 - In case of a divorce, dissolving the marriage contract for the misconduct of the wife, she shall not be endowed.
Page 81 - Judgment was entered for the plaintiff, with leave to the defendant to move to enter a verdict for the defendant or for a non-suit.
Page 603 - No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor, was seized or possessed of the premises in question within twenty years before the commencement of such action.
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Page 220 - Where the fundamental law has not limited, either in terms or by necessary implication, the general powers conferred upon the legislature we cannot declare a limitation under the notion of having discovered something in the spirit of the Constitution which is not even mentioned in the instrument.