Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, Τόμος 23P. Cottom, 1824 |
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Σελίδα 175 - Carroll, then being a poor child under the age of twenty-one years, to wit, of the age of fifteen years...
Σελίδα 155 - ... but upon an action on the case, in the nature of a writ of deceit...
Σελίδα 245 - ... children got by an Englishman upon a Negro woman shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother...
Σελίδα 541 - Is that the best evidence must be given of which the nature of the thing Is capable ; that is, that no evidence shall be received which presupposes greater evidence behind, In the party's possession or power.
Σελίδα 530 - A surety,' to use the language of Sir S. Romilly's reply, 'will be entitled to every remedy which the creditor has against the principal debtor ; to enforce every security and all means of payment ; to stand in the place of the creditor, not only through the medium of contract, but even by means of securities entered into without the knowledge of the surety ; having a right to have those securities transferred to him, though there was no stipulation for that ; and to avail himself of all those securities...
Σελίδα ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Σελίδα 98 - An act for regulating conveyances," it is enacted, " that all conveyances of lands," " and all deeds of settlement upon marriage wherein either lands, slaves, money or other personal thing shall be settled," " and all deeds of trust and mortgages whatsoever," " shall be void as to all creditors and subsequent purchasers, unless they shall be acknowledged, or proved and recorded according to the directions of this act; but the same, as between the parties and their heirs, shall nevertheless be valid...
Σελίδα 86 - It is therefore adjudged and ordered that the said judgment be reversed and annulled, the verdict of the jury set aside, and the cause is remanded to the said circuit court for a new trial to be had in accordance with the views expressed in the said written opinion of the court.
Σελίδα 423 - The jury found a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiff moved...
Σελίδα 102 - ... and a purchaser, on or after that day, held the property subject to the execution upon the judgment in that suit as the defendant would have held it, if no alienation had been made. The Court of Chancery adopted the rule, in analogy to the common law ; but relaxed, in some degree, the severity of the common law.