Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Volume 93H.O. Houghton and Company, 1867 |
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... agreed to discharge a suit in court against the payer upon the latter's paying all legal costs therein , cannot be ... agreed to pay the eighty dollars and " only the taxable costs going to the court , and nothing that went to Bligh's ...
... agreed to discharge a suit in court against the payer upon the latter's paying all legal costs therein , cannot be ... agreed to pay the eighty dollars and " only the taxable costs going to the court , and nothing that went to Bligh's ...
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... agreed in this court that in 1848 the Trustees of the Worcester Academy owned a large tract of land , through which there was a street called Benefit Street , and conveyed to James H. Wall a certain portion of the land on one side of ...
... agreed in this court that in 1848 the Trustees of the Worcester Academy owned a large tract of land , through which there was a street called Benefit Street , and conveyed to James H. Wall a certain portion of the land on one side of ...
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... agreed before the purchase that the sum paid should be considered as a loan from the grantee to such third person ; but the proof upon this point must be full and clear . BILL IN EQUITY , alleging that on the 15th day of January 1862 ...
... agreed before the purchase that the sum paid should be considered as a loan from the grantee to such third person ; but the proof upon this point must be full and clear . BILL IN EQUITY , alleging that on the 15th day of January 1862 ...
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... agreed to repay him whatever sum he should pay for the same , and the defendant did in such capacity bid off the same for the sum of $ 407 over the incumbrances , and with the plaintiff's consent received in his own name a deed of the ...
... agreed to repay him whatever sum he should pay for the same , and the defendant did in such capacity bid off the same for the sum of $ 407 over the incumbrances , and with the plaintiff's consent received in his own name a deed of the ...
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... agreed to lend it to the plaintiff for the purchase , and took the plaintiff's notes for it . The court held that this raised a resulting trust , but said that the evidence ought to be very clear and satisfactory in such a case . In ...
... agreed to lend it to the plaintiff for the purchase , and took the plaintiff's notes for it . The court held that this raised a resulting trust , but said that the evidence ought to be very clear and satisfactory in such a case . In ...
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Page 59 - There shall be at least two attesting witnesses, each of whom shall sign his name as a witness, at the end of the will, at the request of the testator.
Page 61 - In his presence, and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the testator by three or more competent witnesses.
Page 174 - They cannot be subjected to legal proceedings, at law or in equity, without their consent ; and whoever institutes such proceedings must bring his case within the authority of some act of Congress.
Page 256 - ... together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.
Page 279 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 50 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 52 - ... at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two 'or more witnesses present at the same time; and such witnesses shall attest and subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 371 - ... the defense of it, he is no longer regarded as a stranger, because he has the right to appear and defend the action, and has the same means and advantages of controverting the claim as if he was the real and nominal party upon the record.
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