American Law Magazine, Volume 2Rothman., 1844 |
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... Common Law , 116 , 389 Equity , Admiralty , · 159 , 416 431 House of Lords , 435 Ecclesiastical ,. 180 Digest of American Cases , English Law Reform , Insanity , Legal Doctrine of , Legare , Hugh S. , Sketch of , · Limitations of ...
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... common law at its ancient foun- tain . " The pursuit of pleasure , " he remarked in the letter from which the last extract was taken , " is the farthest thing from my thoughts in going to England . But the pursuit of knowledge I am ...
... common law at its ancient foun- tain . " The pursuit of pleasure , " he remarked in the letter from which the last extract was taken , " is the farthest thing from my thoughts in going to England . But the pursuit of knowledge I am ...
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... common law . But by act of 11th April , 1799 , all persons not subjects of a power at war with the United States , and who had declared their intention of becoming citizens under the existing act of congress , were permitted to purchase ...
... common law . But by act of 11th April , 1799 , all persons not subjects of a power at war with the United States , and who had declared their intention of becoming citizens under the existing act of congress , were permitted to purchase ...
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... common law always excluded aliens from coming in by act of law . Thus it was decided in the Lessee of Jackson v . Burns , that a British antenatus , could not take lands by descent in Pennsylvania . This case is well and fully reported ...
... common law always excluded aliens from coming in by act of law . Thus it was decided in the Lessee of Jackson v . Burns , that a British antenatus , could not take lands by descent in Pennsylvania . This case is well and fully reported ...
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... common law fulness of signification to the word purchase , which it was argued would embrace his case . It is plain that the decision is put upon this ground , for no other is offered for its support ; and we are thus led to infer ...
... common law fulness of signification to the word purchase , which it was argued would embrace his case . It is plain that the decision is put upon this ground , for no other is offered for its support ; and we are thus led to infer ...
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Page 114 - That in any devise or bequest of real or personal estate, the words <die without issue,' or <die without leaving issue,' or < have no issue,' or any other words which may import either a want cr failure of issue, of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall...
Page 445 - Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.
Page 196 - Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing.
Page 396 - ... goods in the order and disposition of the bankrupt at the time of the bankruptcy, under 6 Geo.
Page 202 - Regulations of this description have always been considered, in every civilized community, as properly belonging to the remedy, to be exercised or not by every sovereignty, according to its own views of policy and humanity.
Page 346 - ALL the several pleas and excuses, which protect the committer of a forbidden act from the punishment which is otherwise annexed thereto, may be reduced to this single consideration, the want or defect of will. An involuntary act, as it has no claim to merit, so neither can it induce any guilt : the concurrence of the will, when it has its choice either to do or to avoid the fact in question, being the only thing that renders human actions either praiseworthy or culpable.
Page 222 - ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence.
Page 201 - If the laws of the State passed afterwards had done nothing more than change the remedy upon contracts of this description, they would be liable to no constitutional objection. For undoubtedly, a State may regulate at pleasure the modes of proceeding in its courts in relation to past contracts as well as future.
Page 356 - What is the law respecting alleged crimes committed by persons afflicted with insane delusion in respect of one or more particular subjects or persons; as, for instance, where at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, the accused knew he was acting contrary to law, but did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or avenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit ?
Page 262 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...