Laws of the State of New York: Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature Held in the Years 1777-1801, Being the First Twenty-four Sessions, Volume 5

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Weed, Parsons, 1887 - Law

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Page 80 - Action may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence...
Page 296 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of record, or any other place whatsoever...
Page 97 - That in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this Act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved, but...
Page 96 - and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and...
Page 285 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 13 - Senate shall respectively be sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.
Page 307 - ... in witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
Page 38 - WHEREAS the above bounden , hath been appointed to the office of sheriff of on the day of last past ; now therefore the condition of the above obligation is such, that if the said shall well and faithfully in all things perform and execute the office of sheriff, of the said county of during his continuance in the said office, by virtue of the said appointment, without fraud, deceit or oppression, then the above obligation to Other be void, or else remain in full force.
Page 201 - Defeazance ; yet it shall and may nevertheless be pleaded in Bar of such Action, and shall be as effectual a Bar thereof, as if the Money had been paid at the Day and Place, according to the Condition or Defeazance, and had been so pleaded.
Page 12 - No will made within this state, except such nuncupative wills as are mentioned in the following section, shall be effectual to pass any estate, whether real or personal, nor to charge, or in any way affect the same, unless it be in writing, and signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence, and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed in the presence of the testator by two or more competent witnesses...

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