Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to a Statute Law of the State, Τόμος 34 |
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accord and satisfaction action agent agreed agreement ALDIS alleged appear ASAHEL PECK assumpsit attached auditor authority bill Burlington Burt Canada company Canada line Canada R. R. Canada Railroad Company Central Railroad Company charge charter contract conveyed corporation counsel county court creditor Cree David Hill debt debtor declaration deed defendant defendant excepted defendant's delivered district Dummerston entitled evidence tending execution fact farm forfeiture held highway horse hundred dollars judgment jury Kelsey land lease liable lien listers ment mortgage officer orator owner paid parol parties payment plaintiff plea POLAND possession premises purchase question receipt receiptors recover reference rendered rent road Sandgate selectmen statute suit Sunderland taxes tending to prove tending to show testimony thereof tiff tion town trespass trial trustees Vermont and Canada Vermont Central Company Vermont Central R. R. Vermont Central Railroad warrant
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Σελίδα 287 - A person may without doubt be employed to conduct an application to the legislature as well as to conduct a suit at law, and may contract for and receive pay for his services in preparing and presenting a petition, or other documents, in collecting evidence, in making a statement or exposition of facts, or in preparing...
Σελίδα 625 - To constitute an accord and satisfaction, it is necessary that the money should be offered in satisfaction of the claim, and the offer accompanied with such acts and declarations as amount to a condition that if the money is accepted, it is accepted in satisfaction, and such that the party to whom it is offered is bound to understand therefrom that if he takes it, he takes it subject to such condition.
Σελίδα 320 - The definition of interpleader is not, and cannot, now, be disputed. It is where the plaintiff says, I have a fund in my possession, in which I claim no personal interest, and to which you, the defendants, set up conflicting claims; pay me my costs, and I will bring the fund into Court, and you shall contest it between yourselves.
Σελίδα 327 - ... the premises, without regard to what he may, in fact, have realized as profits from the use of it. The rule is founded in sound policy, for the reason that the particular items of expenditure, in labor or otherwise, as well as the profits received, are wholly within the knowledge of the mortgagee, and, if he is not disposed to render a full and honest account, it would be impossible for the mortgagor to show them, or to establish errors in the mortgagee's account.
Σελίδα 417 - ... that a man who puts his name to a bill of exchange, thereby makes himself personally liable, unless he states upon the face of the bill that he subscribes it for another, or " by procuration of another," which are words of exclusion ; unless he says plainly, " I am the mere scribe,
Σελίδα 22 - ... ten years from the passage of this act, construct, finish, and put in operation onefourth part of the said rail-road or way ; and shall not, within fifteen years from the passage of this act, construct...
Σελίδα 11 - ... the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said...
Σελίδα 112 - ... results a rule, which governs the construction of all contracts, and is capable, from its simplicity, of being applied with great ease and certainty, viz. That Whatever is expected by one side, and known to be so expected by the other, is to be deemed a part or condition of the contract.
Σελίδα 209 - When a tender or offer is thus made, the party to whom it is made has no alternative but to refuse it, or accept it upon such condition. If he takes it, his claim is canceled, and no protest, declaration or denial of his, so long Misc.] Supreme Court, Appellate Term, April, 1898. as the condition is insisted on, can vary the result.
Σελίδα 431 - The limitations hereinbefore prescribed for the commencement of actions, shall apply to the same actions when brought in the name of the people of this state, or in the name of any officer or otherwise, for the benefit of the state, in the same manner as to actions brought by individuals.