The York Legal Record, Volume 35York Legal Record Print, 1921 - Law A record of cases argued and determined in the various courts of York County; together with reports and abstracts of the most important cases adjudicated throughout the Commonwealth (varies slightly). |
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Page 168 - A contract to sell or a sale of any goods or choses in action of the value of five hundred dollars or upwards shall not be enforceable by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf.
Page 175 - Persons so serving or executing the same shall be as liable to the Suit of the Party grieved, and to answer Damages to him for doing thereof, as if he or they had done the same, without any Writ, Process, Warrant, Order, Judgment, or Decree at all.
Page 159 - ... material facts on which the party pleading relies for his claim, or defense, as the case may be...
Page 13 - In all cases where, a remedy is provided, or duty enjoined, or anything directed to be done by any act or acts of assembly of this Commonwealth, the directions of the said acts shall be strictly pursued ; and no penalty shall be inflicted or anything done agreeably to the provisions of the common law in such cases, further than shall be necessary for carrying such act or acts into effect": Act of March 21, 1806, 1 Purdon (13th ed.) p.
Page 120 - District, to be voted for at the election to be held on the day of...
Page 13 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500, or to undergo imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Page 95 - The exception was where a dismissal of the bill would prejudice the defendants in some other way than by the mere prospect of being harassed and vexed by future litigation of the same kind.
Page 116 - Art. 38. The governor shall be ineligible for the succeeding four years after the expiration of the time for which he shall have been elected.
Page 176 - That no person or persons upon the Lord's day shall serve or execute, or cause to be served or executed, any writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree (except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace) ; but that the service of every such writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree shall be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Page 11 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.