Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States: 1-351 U.S; 1790- October term, 1955, Bücher 11Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1883 |
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... execution of the contract entered into between Shackleford and Buckner , for the sale and conveyance of the lands in question , would this court grant the relief asked ? Buck ner has neither paid nor tendered payment of the purchase ...
... execution of the contract entered into between Shackleford and Buckner , for the sale and conveyance of the lands in question , would this court grant the relief asked ? Buck ner has neither paid nor tendered payment of the purchase ...
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... execution . The charge against Nixon is , substantially , a fraudulent attempt to convert that into an ab- solute sale which was originally meant , by him- self and the complainant , to be a security for a loan . It is in this view of ...
... execution . The charge against Nixon is , substantially , a fraudulent attempt to convert that into an ab- solute sale which was originally meant , by him- self and the complainant , to be a security for a loan . It is in this view of ...
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... execution of the trust ; that the debts mentioned in the schedule were due from McKnight , the appellant , and John Stew- art who had been trading under the firm of McKnight & Stewart , and that no part of any of them had been paid ...
... execution of the trust ; that the debts mentioned in the schedule were due from McKnight , the appellant , and John Stew- art who had been trading under the firm of McKnight & Stewart , and that no part of any of them had been paid ...
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... execution , which had been levied upon the property of the deceased , and & sale was about to take place ; that among the subjects of said levy were some family negroes , who had been for several generations in the family , whom it ...
... execution , which had been levied upon the property of the deceased , and & sale was about to take place ; that among the subjects of said levy were some family negroes , who had been for several generations in the family , whom it ...
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... execution the decree which he is seeking to reverse in the appellate 286 * ] court , in order to obtain a * decree for a larger sum . But the relief asked for the petition cannot be granted , because there is no case legally in this ...
... execution the decree which he is seeking to reverse in the appellate 286 * ] court , in order to obtain a * decree for a larger sum . But the relief asked for the petition cannot be granted , because there is no case legally in this ...
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Seite 357 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Seite 375 - But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another, in any civil action before a Circuit or District Court. And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Seite 392 - ... the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant...
Seite 376 - Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances, for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men,...
Seite 208 - In making this restriction, I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever ; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce...
Seite 208 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the College shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Seite 423 - States shall have power in the trial of actions at law, on motion and due notice thereof being given, to require the parties to produce books or writings in their possession or power, which contain evidence pertinent to the issue, in cases and under circumstances where they might be compelled to produce the same by the ordinary rules of proceeding in chancery...
Seite 281 - On consideration whereof,. it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said Circuit Court in this cause be, and the same is hereby, reversed, with costs, and...
Seite 426 - ... utterly void, frustrate, and of none Effect ; any Pretence, Colour, feigned Consideration, expressing of Use, or any other Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seite 233 - This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered, adjudged, and decreed by this Court, that the...