Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Volume 5Callaghan, 1876 |
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... owner of the land . The land described in a mortgage is specially ap- propriated by the voluntary act of the parties as security for a certain debt , which equity will preserve and protect , while a 1 Storm vs. Mann , 4 Johnson's ...
... owner of the land . The land described in a mortgage is specially ap- propriated by the voluntary act of the parties as security for a certain debt , which equity will preserve and protect , while a 1 Storm vs. Mann , 4 Johnson's ...
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... or extend to any mortgage thereon lawfully obtained ; but such mortgage or other alien- ation of such land by the owner thereof , if a married man , Pratt vs. Burr . shall not be valid without the 1857. ] 37 WISCONSIN . 3333.
... or extend to any mortgage thereon lawfully obtained ; but such mortgage or other alien- ation of such land by the owner thereof , if a married man , Pratt vs. Burr . shall not be valid without the 1857. ] 37 WISCONSIN . 3333.
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... owners , man- agers , servants , or crews of either , which regularly perform trips at stated periods on a post route , or between two or more * * * 15 U. S. Statutes at Large , 731 , 735 . United States vs. U. S. Express Co. cities ...
... owners , man- agers , servants , or crews of either , which regularly perform trips at stated periods on a post route , or between two or more * * * 15 U. S. Statutes at Large , 731 , 735 . United States vs. U. S. Express Co. cities ...
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... owners , at the time , that it was to be a public square , is a dedication for that purpose . 2. IRREVOCABLE . - A dedication , once made , cannot be recalled ; and the intention of the owners at the time is to be considered - not their ...
... owners , at the time , that it was to be a public square , is a dedication for that purpose . 2. IRREVOCABLE . - A dedication , once made , cannot be recalled ; and the intention of the owners at the time is to be considered - not their ...
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... owners had intended it should be appropriated as a public square , or to any public use , it was easy so to designate it . Is there any evidence in the case to show that the minds of the owners did form a purpose , and that that purpose ...
... owners had intended it should be appropriated as a public square , or to any public use , it was easy so to designate it . Is there any evidence in the case to show that the minds of the owners did form a purpose , and that that purpose ...
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Page 46 - 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...
Page 75 - In all cases where the rules prescribed by this Court, or by the Circuit Court, do not apply, the practice of the Circuit Court shall be regulated by the present practice of the High Court of Chancery in England, so far as the same may reasonably be applied consistently with the local circumstances and local convenience of the district where the 'Court is held, not as positive rules, but as furnishing just analogies to regulate the practice.
Page 400 - When the action is between herself and her husband, she may sue or be sued alone; 3.
Page 502 - ... its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof, made with a view to prevent the application of its assets in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or with a view to the preference of one creditor to another, except in payment of its circulating notes, shall be utterly null and void...
Page 37 - ... shall be exempt from forced sale on execution, or any other final process from a court, for any debt contracted after the adoption of this constitution.
Page 381 - It is true that a statute, containing a prohibition and a penalty, makes the act which it punishes unlawful, and the same may be implied from a penalty without a prohibition ; but it does not follow that the unlawfulness of the act was meant by the legislature to avoid a contract made in contravention of it. When the statute is silent, and contains nothing from which the contrary can be properly inferred, a contract in contravention of it is void.
Page 324 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...
Page 502 - suits, actions, and proceedings by and against any association under this act may be had in any circuit, district, or territorial court of the United States held within the district in which such association may be established.
Page 501 - ... to take any captured vessel, any arms or munitions of war or other material...
Page 448 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas...