The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869, Volumen8Bancroft-Whitney, 1886 |
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... dollars , which was then paid . The privateer sailed on said cruise on November 11 , 1814 , with defendant on board , and on the fifth of December following put into Ports- mouth on account of the loss of her bowsprit , when the owners ...
... dollars , which was then paid . The privateer sailed on said cruise on November 11 , 1814 , with defendant on board , and on the fifth of December following put into Ports- mouth on account of the loss of her bowsprit , when the owners ...
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... dollars , with in- terest , at any time within three years from that day . The bond was given , pursuant to the agreement , on January 13 , 1813 . Augustus Lund afterwards died , and the defendant , as his ad- ministrator , paid the ...
... dollars , with in- terest , at any time within three years from that day . The bond was given , pursuant to the agreement , on January 13 , 1813 . Augustus Lund afterwards died , and the defendant , as his ad- ministrator , paid the ...
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... dollars and interest , was not made till nearly three months after the deed of October 23 , 1812 , and , therefore , cannot operate as a defeasance of that deed , which took effect by its delivery at the time of its date . In a court of ...
... dollars and interest , was not made till nearly three months after the deed of October 23 , 1812 , and , therefore , cannot operate as a defeasance of that deed , which took effect by its delivery at the time of its date . In a court of ...
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... dollars , subject to the opin- ion of the court upon the facts reported by the judge , which were substantially as follows : The plaintiffs were incorporated by an act dated December 23 , 1808 , and effected an organization May 25 ...
... dollars , subject to the opin- ion of the court upon the facts reported by the judge , which were substantially as follows : The plaintiffs were incorporated by an act dated December 23 , 1808 , and effected an organization May 25 ...
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... dollars , " gave , granted , bargained and sold " his said land to Kimball , to hold to him and his heirs , and received from the said Kimball a similar deed to the other tract . A verdict was taken for the defendant by consent ...
... dollars , " gave , granted , bargained and sold " his said land to Kimball , to hold to him and his heirs , and received from the said Kimball a similar deed to the other tract . A verdict was taken for the defendant by consent ...
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Página 55 - Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people declared in the constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter, rather than the former. They ought to regulate their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental.
Página 48 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Página 661 - In form it is a fiction : in substance, a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use.
Página 54 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only...
Página 54 - ... Legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal ; that the servant is above his master ; that the Representatives of the People are superior to the People themselves ; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.
Página 251 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Página 668 - Accordingly, it would seem to be a sound rule of law, that wherever a corporation is acting within the scope of the legitimate purposes of its institution, all parol contracts made by its authorized agents, are express promises of the corporation ; and all duties imposed on them by law, and all benefits conferred at their request, raise implied promises, for the enforcement of which an action may well lie.
Página 220 - ... be liable on the warranty, because the servant was acting within the general scope of his authority, and the public cannot be supposed to be cognizant of any private conversation between the master and...
Página 331 - ... that the will of the giver according to the form in the deed of gift manifestly expressed shall be from henceforth observed...
Página 577 - England by adopting the treaty ; but after the best consideration which I have been able to give to the subject...