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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... warrant the competency of the witness . There are two leading principles of evidence in the criminal law , the one , that guilt should not be incurred with impunity ; the other , that innocence should not be put in danger from impas ...
... warrant the competency of the witness . There are two leading principles of evidence in the criminal law , the one , that guilt should not be incurred with impunity ; the other , that innocence should not be put in danger from impas ...
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... warrant of attorney was allowed to give testimony . But in more modern times , the line between competency and credibility has been correctly traced , and objections of this kind are now confined to the credit of the witnesses . 1 Term ...
... warrant of attorney was allowed to give testimony . But in more modern times , the line between competency and credibility has been correctly traced , and objections of this kind are now confined to the credit of the witnesses . 1 Term ...
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... by appeal , provided the facts were sufficiently strong to warrant this court's in- terposition . Rule discharged , and judgment for the plaintiff . Lessee of CHRISTIAN FEBIGER , sole trustee of the loan 1796 ] 41 OF PENNSYLVANIA .
... by appeal , provided the facts were sufficiently strong to warrant this court's in- terposition . Rule discharged , and judgment for the plaintiff . Lessee of CHRISTIAN FEBIGER , sole trustee of the loan 1796 ] 41 OF PENNSYLVANIA .
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... warrant it ; but they will not set aside the verdict where it is not manifestly against evidence or the charge of the court . This was a feigned issue to try the validity of the last will of Joseph Douglass deceased , exhibited in the ...
... warrant it ; but they will not set aside the verdict where it is not manifestly against evidence or the charge of the court . This was a feigned issue to try the validity of the last will of Joseph Douglass deceased , exhibited in the ...
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... warrant it ; but in the present instance we do not find ourselves at liberty to set aside the verdict , and the court therefore unanimously discharge the rule , and direct judgment to be entered for the plaintiff . RESPUBLICA against ...
... warrant it ; but in the present instance we do not find ourselves at liberty to set aside the verdict , and the court therefore unanimously discharge the rule , and direct judgment to be entered for the plaintiff . RESPUBLICA against ...
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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 deceased declared deed defendant deputy surveyor devise discharge dollars dower Duncan ejectment entitled equity evidence execution executors fee simple give given granted ground 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 tenant 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.