Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Τόμος 19

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Σελίδα 580 - Folger's claim was not superior, would be to allow him to take advantage of his own wrong — his fraudulent agreement with Doutrick, with knowledge of all the facts concerning Folger's claim to the property.
Σελίδα 347 - It is a clear proposition not only of the law of England, but of every country in the world, where law has the semblance of science, that personal property has no locality. The meaning of that is, not that personal property has no visible locality, but that it is subject to that law which governs the person of the owner.
Σελίδα 194 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision, in trials at common law, in the courte of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Σελίδα 339 - The rule is well settled that several persons contracting together with the same party for one and the same act, shall be regarded as jointly, and not individually or separately liable, in the absence of any words to show that a distinct as well as entire liability was intended to fasten upon the promisors.
Σελίδα 347 - England, but of every country in the world where law has the semblance of science, that personal property has no locality. The meaning of that is, not that personal property has no visible locality, but that it is subject to that law which governs the person of the owner. With respect to the disposition of it, with respect to the transmission of it, either by succession or the act of the party, it follows the law of the person.
Σελίδα 473 - The judicial power of this State shall be vested in one Supreme Court, in Courts of Civil Appeals, in a Court of Criminal Appeals, in District Cour:s, in County Courts, in Commissioners, Courts, in courts of justices of the peace, and in such other courts as may be provided by law.
Σελίδα 59 - An instrument in any form, whether a deed poll or Indenture, if the obvious purpose is not to take place till after the death of the person making It, shall operate as a will.
Σελίδα 412 - ... we then have a clear case of an admission by the defendant, intended to influence the conduct of the man with whom he was dealing, and actually leading him into a line of conduct which must be prejudicial to his interests, unless the defendant be cut off from the power of retraction. This I understood to be the very definition of an estoppel in pais.
Σελίδα 293 - I belie/e it is true, and I have found no case to the contrary, that if a testator in his will refers expressly to any paper already written, and has so described it, that there can be no doubt of the identity, and the will is executed in the presence of three witnesses, that paper, whether executed or not, makes part of the will ; and such reference is the same as if he had incorporated it, because words of relation have a stronger operation than any other.
Σελίδα 791 - to the Baptist Association that for ordinary meets at Philadelphia annually," as " a perpetual fund for the education of youths of the Baptist denomination who shall appear promising for the ministry...

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