A Treatise on Fraudulent Conveyances and Creditors' Bills: With a Discussion of Void and Voidable Acts

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Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1884 - 741 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 647 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, whether there shall or shall not be any new consideration for such promise or ratification after full age.
Σελίδα 492 - The provisions of this act shall not be construed in any manner to affect or impair the title of a purchaser for a valuable consideration, unless it shall appear that such purchaser had previous notice of the fraudulent intent of his immediate grantor, or of the fraud rendering void the title of such grantor.
Σελίδα 580 - It matters not that the promise was to pay in a manner not authorized by law. If payments cannot be made in bonds because their issue is ultra vires, it would be sanctioning rank injustice to hold that payment need not be made at all.
Σελίδα 550 - Would the owner of the property, in an action of ejectment brought by the adverse party, founded upon the deed, be required to offer evidence to defeat a recovery? If such proof would be necessary, the cloud would exist; if the proof would be unnecessary, no shade would be cast Dy the presence of the deed.
Σελίδα 504 - Whatever is notice enough to excite attention and put the party on his guard and call for inquiry is notice of everything to which such inquiry might have led. When a person has sufficient information to lead him to a fact he shall be deemed conversant of it.
Σελίδα 395 - They were enacted to prevent frauds; to prevent parties from asserting rights after the lapse of time had destroyed or impaired the evidence which would show that such rights never existed, or had been satisfied, transferred, or extinguished, if they ever did exist. To hold that by concealing a fraud, or by committing a fraud in a manner that it concealed itself until such time as the party committing the fraud could plead the statute of limitations to protect it, is to make the law which was designed...
Σελίδα 250 - A court of equity adapts its relief to the exigencies of the case in hand. It may restrain or compel the defendant, it may appoint a receiver, or order an accounting, it may...
Σελίδα 32 - The conclusion I reach upon this subject is that at the time of the separation of the colonies from the mother country, and at the time of the adoption of the constitution, there was in existence a common law, derived from the common law of England, and modified to suit...
Σελίδα 219 - Long acquiescence and laches by parties out of possession are productive of much hardship and Injustice to others, and cannot be excused but by showing some actual hindrance or Impediment, caused by the fraud or concealment of the parties in possession, which will appeal to the conscience of the chancellor.
Σελίδα 488 - Actual notice embraces all degrees and grades of evidence, from the most direct and positive proof to the slightest circumstance, from which a jury would be warranted in inferring notice. It is a mere question of fact, and is open to every species of legitimate evidence which may tend to strengthen or impair the conclusion.

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