Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Τόμος 10Edward O. Jenkins, 1852 |
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Σελίδα 413 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Σελίδα 194 - In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...
Σελίδα 366 - ... knowledge of all the facts, adopts or acquiesces in the acts done under an assumed agency, he cannot be heard afterwards to impeach them, under the pretence that they were done without authority, or even contrary to instructions.
Σελίδα 347 - The true test of the interest of a witness is, that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action.
Σελίδα 382 - the rule for jurisdiction is that nothing shall be intended to be out of the jurisdiction of a superior court but that which specially appears to be so...
Σελίδα 469 - But a mere intruder cannot enter on a person actually seized and eject him, and then question his title or set up an outstanding title in another. The maxim that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's, is applicable to all actions for the recovery of property.
Σελίδα 72 - Parliament, also, it is not, in general, a true line of construction to decide according to the strict letter of the act ; but the Courts will rather consider what is its fair meaning («), and will expound it differently from the letter, in order to preserve the intent (x).
Σελίδα 482 - Court upon a Supplicavit for security of the peace against her husband, and it is necessary, that she should live apart, as incidental to that the Chancellor will allow her separate maintenance : so in the Ecclesiastical Court, if it is necessary for a divorce a mensa et thoro propter scevitiam.
Σελίδα 206 - We may, therefore, assume as the settled doctrine of this Court, that if a patent is absolutely void upon its face, or the issuing thereof was without authority, or was prohibited by statute, or the State had no title, it may be impeached collaterally in a Court of law, in an action of ejectment.
Σελίδα 300 - Their influence has reached the courts of law, and the case of mortgages is one of the most splendid instances in the history of our jurisprudence, of the triumph of equitable principles over technical rules, and of the homage which those principles have received by their adoption in the courts of law.