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 34
... owner of the debt , when the de- fendant sets up a discharge by the nominal plaintiff , there is no principle which will permit him to thrust forward the nominal plaintiff , when the de- fendant ultimately prevails in the litigation ...
... owner of the debt , when the de- fendant sets up a discharge by the nominal plaintiff , there is no principle which will permit him to thrust forward the nominal plaintiff , when the de- fendant ultimately prevails in the litigation ...
Page 65
... owner ; that they appointed S. M. Mason , the fourth defendant , special collector to collect the tax so assessed ... owners of real estate , in the city of Utica , was therefore taking the property of one set of New - York , May , 1840 ...
... owner ; that they appointed S. M. Mason , the fourth defendant , special collector to collect the tax so assessed ... owners of real estate , in the city of Utica , was therefore taking the property of one set of New - York , May , 1840 ...
Page 75
... owners of real estate in the city of Utica . The general purpose of raising the money by tax was , therefore , to construct a canal , a public highway , which the legislature believed would be a benefit to the city of Utica as such ...
... owners of real estate in the city of Utica . The general purpose of raising the money by tax was , therefore , to construct a canal , a public highway , which the legislature believed would be a benefit to the city of Utica as such ...
Page 91
... owner , making considerable improvements . All this was public , notorious , and well known to the plaintiff in 1834 , when he took his deed from Wells ; and that deed was taken with the express view to this litigation . It was ...
... owner , making considerable improvements . All this was public , notorious , and well known to the plaintiff in 1834 , when he took his deed from Wells ; and that deed was taken with the express view to this litigation . It was ...
Page 96
... owner of the land to convey , and where the negotiation with him for the sale of the farm was made with- out any request from the maker of the note . A mere moral or conscientious obligation , unconnected with a prior legal or equitable ...
... owner of the land to convey , and where the negotiation with him for the sale of the farm was made with- out any request from the maker of the note . A mere moral or conscientious obligation , unconnected with a prior legal or equitable ...
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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.