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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... held in trust , on the death of the trustee , at common law passed to his executor ; not as assets . He took not as executor but as a trustee , subject to the same stipulations and conditions under which it was held by the testator ...
... held in trust , on the death of the trustee , at common law passed to his executor ; not as assets . He took not as executor but as a trustee , subject to the same stipulations and conditions under which it was held by the testator ...
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... held for his use . No case can be found , I think , where an action at law has been * sustained against a trustee for the benefit of creditors , upon an [ * 12 ] implied promise arising merely out of the acceptance of the trust to pay ...
... held for his use . No case can be found , I think , where an action at law has been * sustained against a trustee for the benefit of creditors , upon an [ * 12 ] implied promise arising merely out of the acceptance of the trust to pay ...
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... held that the testimony showing that the plaintiff below had a license was sufficient . The answer is , that the facts going to make out the license are not stated as facts found , but only the evidence of them is given ; for in- stance ...
... held that the testimony showing that the plaintiff below had a license was sufficient . The answer is , that the facts going to make out the license are not stated as facts found , but only the evidence of them is given ; for in- stance ...
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... held that these took the case out of the statute ; but they might have proceeded on other grounds . Neither the dates nor other particulars as to the credits are set forth . Beside , I do not see that the point was made before the ...
... held that these took the case out of the statute ; but they might have proceeded on other grounds . Neither the dates nor other particulars as to the credits are set forth . Beside , I do not see that the point was made before the ...
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... held that a slanderer calling the plaintiff , Dr. Smith , and imputing not a want of degree but of qualification as a physician , could not call upon him in an action for the slander to prove his degree , especially as the defend- ant ...
... held that a slanderer calling the plaintiff , Dr. Smith , and imputing not a want of degree but of qualification as a physician , could not call upon him in an action for the slander to prove his degree , especially as the defend- ant ...
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Page 344 - 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 46 - 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 123 - ... 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 202 - 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 556 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life...
Page 202 - In case of a divorce, dissolving the marriage contract for the misconduct of the wife, she shall not be endowed.
Page 91 - 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 605 - 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.
Page 481 - ... for -all debts which shall be due and owing by the company at the time of its dissolution, the persons then composing such company shall be individually responsible to the extent of their respective shares of stock in the said company, and no further...
Page 224 - 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.