Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 3P. Cottom, 1828 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 617 - Term, obtained a rule to show cause why a verdict should not...
Page 54 - III. c. 11 provides, that, in case of intestacy, the ordinary shall depute the nearest and most lawful friends...
Page 138 - Private acts are those which concern only a particular species, thing, or person, of which the judges will not take notice without pleading them, — viz., acts relating to the bishops only ; acts for toleration of dissenters ; acts relating to any particular place, or to divers particular towns, or to one or divers particular counties, or to the colleges only in the universities.
Page 287 - ... if a less estate be not limited- by express words, or do not appear to have been granted, conveyed or devised by construction or operation of law.
Page 203 - If one concerts with an executor, by obtaining the testator's effects at a nominal price, or at a fraudulent undervalue, or by applying the real value to the purchase of other subjects for his own behoof, or in extinguishing the private debt of the executor, or in any other manner contrary to the duty of the office of executor, such concert will involve the seeming purchaser or pawnee, and make him liable to the full value (.r).
Page 311 - ... his family, devisees, legatees or estate, occurring between the time of making the will and the death of the testator.
Page 35 - ... office of discount and deposit of the! bank of the United States within that state, to*be collected, in case of refusal?
Page 148 - ... pounds for the forbearance of one hundred pounds for a year; and so after that rate for a greater or lesser sum, or for a longer or shorter time...
Page 226 - ... if a conveyance be of goods and chattels and be not on consideration deemed valuable in law, it shall be taken to be fraudulent within this act: unless the same be by will duly proved and recorded; or by deed in writing, acknowledged or proved...
Page 41 - The holder of a bill of exchange, or promissory note, is not to be considered in 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.