Reports of Cases Civil and Criminal in the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, from 1801 to 1841, Band 6Little, Brown, 1853 |
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Act of Congress administrator affidavit Alex'a Alexandria county arrest assault and battery assumpsit attachment averment bail Bank of Alexandria Bank of Columbia Bank of Washington BILLS AND NOTES bond bound Brent Brown capias charge Chesapeake and Ohio committed common law competent witness continued contract Corp Court creditor damages Davis debt debtor declaration defendant defendant's demand and notice demurrer discharge District of Columbia entitled equity execution executor fieri facias fraud freedom Georgetown give given in evidence guardian Ibid indictment indorser insolvent issue Jones judgment jurisdiction jurors jury justice larceny liable maker Mandeville marshal Maryland Act motion Neale Negro offence party payable payment peace peremptory challenge person plaintiff plea pleaded prisoner promissory note prove quash recover rent replevin Riggs Ringgold scire facias Semmes slave Smith statute of limitations sufficient suit surety Tayloe trial Union Bank United States v. i. unless usury verdict Virginia Washington county Wilson writ
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Seite 166 - It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be determined.
Seite 128 - The defendant may, at any time before the bill is taken for confessed, or afterward with the leave of the court, demur or plead to the whole bill, or to part of it, and he may demur to part, plead to part, and answer as to the residue...
Seite 36 - You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such proceedings be had in said cause as, according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States, ought to be had, the said appeal notwithstanding.
Seite 149 - ... for the purpose of showing a balance against such person, to produce a transcript from the books and proceedings of the treasury, as required in civil cases, under the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to provide more effectually for the Settlement of Accounts between the United States and Receivers of public Money...
Seite 113 - ... when the witness lives at a greater distance from the place of trial than one hundred miles, or is bound on a voyage to sea, or is about to go out of the United States, or out of the district in which the case is to be tried, and to a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of trial, before the time of trial, or when he is ancient and infirm.
Seite 68 - An Act for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes depending in the courts of the United States...
Seite 151 - Thus, in an action by the indorsee against the maker of a promissory note, the defense insisted on was, that the note had been given for hits against the defendant in a lottery insurance.
Seite 24 - ... before a justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law...
Seite 47 - ... with intention to defraud the said corporation or any other body politic or person ; or shall...
Seite 45 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...