Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: With Some Select Cases at Nisi Prius, and in the Circuit Courts, Volumen2J. Campbell, 1871 |
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... brought to impeach his own instrument has been fully answered . It rests on a fallacy , and pre- supposes the note to have been signed by Heister , which is the very fact to be tried . The exception taken on the ground of interest is ...
... brought to impeach his own instrument has been fully answered . It rests on a fallacy , and pre- supposes the note to have been signed by Heister , which is the very fact to be tried . The exception taken on the ground of interest is ...
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... brought does not appear thereby , or when the promissory notes became due . If they were not payable until after Wiggin's bankruptcy , the suit would certainly be maintaina- ble on them . If the plaintiffs had commenced an action as ...
... brought does not appear thereby , or when the promissory notes became due . If they were not payable until after Wiggin's bankruptcy , the suit would certainly be maintaina- ble on them . If the plaintiffs had commenced an action as ...
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... brought his suit on the note many years before , was urged as strong evidence of it . But to put the matter out of all question , they offered in testimony the answer of colonel Antill to interrogato- ries administered to him under a ...
... brought his suit on the note many years before , was urged as strong evidence of it . But to put the matter out of all question , they offered in testimony the answer of colonel Antill to interrogato- ries administered to him under a ...
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... brought against the defendant as collector of the customs of the port of Philadelphia . The plaintiff claimed for his services . as one of the measurers of salt , coals and grain , from Nov- ember 1789 to December 1793 , and insisted ...
... brought against the defendant as collector of the customs of the port of Philadelphia . The plaintiff claimed for his services . as one of the measurers of salt , coals and grain , from Nov- ember 1789 to December 1793 , and insisted ...
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... brought on a deed . If there had been a seal affixed to the instru- ment , the real damages sustained might have been recovered in an action of covenant , though they exceeded the penalty . Here was a contract for the payment and ...
... brought on a deed . If there had been a seal affixed to the instru- ment , the real damages sustained might have been recovered in an action of covenant , though they exceeded the penalty . Here was a contract for the payment and ...
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3d April act of assembly action admitted aforesaid afterwards agreement appeared assumpsit Atky bail Board of Property bond Burr certificate circumstances claim consideration contract conveyance court covenant Cowp creditors Cumberland county Dall debt decease declared deed defendant deputy surveyor devise discharge dollars dower Duncan ejectment entitled equity evidence execution executors fee simple give given granted ground heirs and assigns indorsed Ingersoll intention interest intestate issue James John Penn judgment jury justice legacies lessee lessor M'Kean March marriage matter ment Messrs mortgage Nisi Prius nonsuit opinion paid parties payment Pennsylvania personal estate plaintiff plaintiff in error possession premises pro quer prove purchase question received rent replevin Richard Penn Robert Whitehill rule sheriff sheriff's deed Smith sold Stra suit survey Term Rep testator thereof Thomas Thomas Penn tion tract trial verdict vested warrant wife William witness words Yeates
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Página 164 - Pleas, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
Página 328 - Be the same more or less together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Página 158 - And the said records and 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.
Página 353 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Página 271 - ... for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted...
Página 349 - That if a suit be commenced in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another State...
Página 349 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Página 357 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Página 408 - That it is a rule in law, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail ; that always in such cases (the heirs) are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase...
Página 350 - 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 courts of the United States in cases where they apply.