A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and Comments, Τόμος 5Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1824 |
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... penalty or forfeiture . § 2. It is stated in the English books , that escheat depends on the corruption of blood , whereby descent is wholly ob- structed . There may be a forfeiture where there is no es- cheat ; as where a new felony is ...
... penalty or forfeiture . § 2. It is stated in the English books , that escheat depends on the corruption of blood , whereby descent is wholly ob- structed . There may be a forfeiture where there is no es- cheat ; as where a new felony is ...
Σελίδα 11
... Penalties , in the nature of liquidated damages , by some called forfeitures , are not properly such ; but mere sums of money , agreed on by the parties , to be paid by the one to the other , on failure to perform a contract . See ...
... Penalties , in the nature of liquidated damages , by some called forfeitures , are not properly such ; but mere sums of money , agreed on by the parties , to be paid by the one to the other , on failure to perform a contract . See ...
Σελίδα 58
... penalty was a for- feiture of the engine , used in taking the fish , as to which the court could not give judgment ; and this was a material cir- cumstance , as stated in Downe's case . This was a complaint against one , as the father ...
... penalty was a for- feiture of the engine , used in taking the fish , as to which the court could not give judgment ; and this was a material cir- cumstance , as stated in Downe's case . This was a complaint against one , as the father ...
Σελίδα 63
... penalty to an informer , where 13 Mass . R. there was none - on error reversed as to this third , and the whole of it adjudged to the Commonwealth . 221 , 223 . § 8. Mill act . So , this writ of error has been sustained 1 Mass . R. on ...
... penalty to an informer , where 13 Mass . R. there was none - on error reversed as to this third , and the whole of it adjudged to the Commonwealth . 221 , 223 . § 8. Mill act . So , this writ of error has been sustained 1 Mass . R. on ...
Σελίδα 77
... penalty in the said section ex- pressed , as by his declaration aforesaid he has demanded , it is considered , & c . " Held , in this case , that a field - driver , from whom neat cattle are rescued , cannot recover the pe- nalty given ...
... penalty in the said section ex- pressed , as by his declaration aforesaid he has demanded , it is considered , & c . " Held , in this case , that a field - driver , from whom neat cattle are rescued , cannot recover the pe- nalty given ...
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Σελίδα 214 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Σελίδα 214 - Judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Σελίδα 495 - States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, viz.
Σελίδα 284 - Suit thereupon in his own Name, and the Court where the Action is brought, may by Rule or Rules of the same Court, give such Relief to the Plaintiff and Defendant in the Original Action, and to the Bail .upon the said Bond, or other Security taken from such Bail, as is agreeable to Justice and Reason, and that such Rule or Rules of the said Court shall have the Nature and Effect of a Defeazance to such Bail-Bond, or other Security for Bail.
Σελίδα 371 - Accordingly, it would seem to be a sound rule of law, that wherever a corporation is acting within the scope of the legitimate purposes of its institution, all parol contracts made by its authorized agents, are express promises of the corporation ; and all duties imposed on them by law, and all benefits conferred at their request, raise implied promises, for the enforcement of which an action may well lie.
Σελίδα 56 - States, shall be abated, arrested, quashed, or reversed for any defect, or want of form; but such court shall proceed and give judgment according as the right of the cause and matter in law shall appear to it, without regarding any such defect, or want of form...
Σελίδα 584 - It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another...
Σελίδα 396 - Here are mutual items of account; and I take it to have been clearly settled, as long as I have any memory of the practice of the courts, that every new item and credit in an account given by one party to the other, is an admission of there being some unsettled account between them, the amount of which is afterwards to be ascertained ; and any act which the jury may consider as an acknowledgment of its being an open account, is sufficient to take the case out of the statute.
Σελίδα 590 - that if any person or persons shall, on purpose and of malice aforethought, by laying in wait, unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue, put out an...
Σελίδα 97 - Whereupon, all and singular, the premises being seen, and by the Court here fully understood, it is considered by the Court that the said Edwards be branded on his left hand, and immediately he is branded in his left hand and is delivered according to the form of the Statute.