Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volumes 1-2Abraham Small, 1823 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 316 - the light of an assignee of the payee. An assignee must take the thing assigned, subject to all the equity to which the original party was subject: if this rule applied to bills and promissory notes, it would stop their currency.
Page 288 - justice, to refund, the law implies a debt, and gives this action, founded in the equity of the plaintiff's case, as it were upon a contract
Page 359 - an Act for emitting the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in bills of credit for the defence of this State, and providing a fund for sinking the same, by a tax on all estates real
Page 240 - a verdict shall cure the omission of the averment of any matter, without proving which, the . jury ought not to have given such a verdict," cannot be construed to cure the want of an averment of the cause of action,
Page 311 - that wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third, he who
Page 378 - States of America ; for though they form a confederated government, yet the several States retain their individual sovereignties, and, with respect to their municipal laws, are to each
Page 320 - are rejected, and a new mode of attaining justice is discovered. But is it true, that the means are adequate to the object ? It is urged, as a reason for the rejection of former opinions upon this subject, that they tended to impose deceptions upon the public, and to cramp commerce, by destroying
Page 298 - that in any suit upon such bond, bill, or note, so assigned, the plaintiff shall allow all discounts that the defendant can prove, either against the plaintiff himself, or against the first obligee, before notice of such assignment was given to the defendant.
Page 378 - that in cases of contracts, the laws of a foreign country where the contract was made, must govern. The same principle applies, though with no greater force, to the
Page 360 - supplement to the Act entitled an Act for the calling in of the bills of credit issued by the legislative authority of Pennsylvania, under the sanction and authority of the crown of Great Britain, and for other purposes herein mentioned,