Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, at ..., in Law and Equity, Volume 2Budd and Colby, 1841 |
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... authority - the books , both in England and this country , abound with similar cases . It has even been decided in New - York , that plaintiff may answer the plea of transfer , by stating that the suit was instituted for the benefit of ...
... authority - the books , both in England and this country , abound with similar cases . It has even been decided in New - York , that plaintiff may answer the plea of transfer , by stating that the suit was instituted for the benefit of ...
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... authority to alter or change the contract or assignment to the prejudice of the assignee or obligor , without their consent or agreement . These rights , whatever they may be , are vested by the assignment , and pass by the delivery of ...
... authority to alter or change the contract or assignment to the prejudice of the assignee or obligor , without their consent or agreement . These rights , whatever they may be , are vested by the assignment , and pass by the delivery of ...
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... authority has the assignee , without the per- mission or consent of the obligor , to change the nature of his defence at law ? None at all . This , the statute expressly forbids . The moment the assignment is made , the obligor's rights ...
... authority has the assignee , without the per- mission or consent of the obligor , to change the nature of his defence at law ? None at all . This , the statute expressly forbids . The moment the assignment is made , the obligor's rights ...
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... authority is only an emanation of the sovereign will . 3 Blackstone Commentarics 24 , Co. Litt . 260. A court of record is where the acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled in parchment or on paper for a particular memorial and ...
... authority is only an emanation of the sovereign will . 3 Blackstone Commentarics 24 , Co. Litt . 260. A court of record is where the acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled in parchment or on paper for a particular memorial and ...
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... authority , and we will now fully state it . In order to entitle a party to a new trial , on the ground of newly disco- vered evidence since the former trial , the affidavit in the case must prove , 1st , the names of the witnesses ...
... authority , and we will now fully state it . In order to entitle a party to a new trial , on the ground of newly disco- vered evidence since the former trial , the affidavit in the case must prove , 1st , the names of the witnesses ...
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Page 229 - The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone — when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath, administered in a court of justice.
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