Delaware Reports: Containing Cases Decided in the Supreme Court (excepting Appeals from the Chancellor) and the Superior Court and the Orphans Court of the State of Delaware, Τόμος 1David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Watson Harrington, William Henry Boyce, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey Mercantile Print. Company, 1837 |
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Σελίδα 326 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Σελίδα 577 - States declares that no State shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.
Σελίδα 24 - of the bench aforesaid," or in the Exchequer, " of the Exchequer aforesaid,"^ at Westminster aforesaid, more fully and at large appears, which said judgment still remains in full force and effect, not in the least reversed, satisfied...
Σελίδα 353 - ... mortuaries, and reliefs, by such guileful covinous, or fraudulent devices and practices as is aforesaid, are, shall, or might be in any...
Σελίδα 550 - Armyn for life, without impeachment of waste, and in case he should have any issue male, then to such issue male and his heirs for ever...
Σελίδα 469 - it shall be the duty of the prothonotary of any court of record within this commonwealth, on the application of any person being the original holder [or assignee of such holder] of a note, bond, or other instrument of writing in which judgment is confessed, or containing a warrant for an attorney at law or other person to confess judgment, to enter judgment against the person or persons who executed the same for the amount which, from the face of the instrument, may appear to be due...
Σελίδα 40 - I take the rule to be, that if the whole of an averment may be struck out without destroying the plaintiff's right of action, it is not necessary to prove it; but...
Σελίδα 68 - ... and introductive of idleness and immorality, and against the common good and general welfare. It therefore cannot be admitted that the plaintiffs have a right to use an invention for drawing lotteries in this State, merely because they have a patent for it under the United States. A person might with as much propriety claim a right to commit murder with an instrument, because he held a patent for it as a new and useful invention.
Σελίδα 329 - when a great river is the boundary between two nations or states, if the original property is in neither, and there be no convention about it, each holds to the middle of the stream.
Σελίδα 416 - ... to hear and decree all such matters and causes of equity as shall come before them in said courts ; wherein the proceedings shall be by bill and answer, with such other pleadings as are necessary in chancery courts and proper in these parts ; with power also in said justices to force obedience to their decrees in equity as the case may require.