Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 33New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1866 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... common law gives him — to assert the illegality of an act as a reason for not performing it . An agreement for a usurious consideration in fact paid , to for- bear the collection of a demand for any stipulated period , until the ...
... common law gives him — to assert the illegality of an act as a reason for not performing it . An agreement for a usurious consideration in fact paid , to for- bear the collection of a demand for any stipulated period , until the ...
Page 42
... common council of the city of New York , passed December 31 , 1858 , requiring city rail road companies to pay a ... common council had no authority to alienate ; but it was simply an attempt by one of the parties to a con- tract to ...
... common council of the city of New York , passed December 31 , 1858 , requiring city rail road companies to pay a ... common council had no authority to alienate ; but it was simply an attempt by one of the parties to a con- tract to ...
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... common as to the ownership of the vessel , though they are partners in respect to its earnings . As partners in the earnings , all should be joined in an action to recover for freight earned by such vessel . But for defects arising from ...
... common as to the ownership of the vessel , though they are partners in respect to its earnings . As partners in the earnings , all should be joined in an action to recover for freight earned by such vessel . But for defects arising from ...
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... common with the owners of the other half . The money which had come to defendants ' hands , after discharging all claims and expenses , left in their hands a sum to be divided between the owners of the brig . The defendants undertook to ...
... common with the owners of the other half . The money which had come to defendants ' hands , after discharging all claims and expenses , left in their hands a sum to be divided between the owners of the brig . The defendants undertook to ...
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... common arrangement of personal property for the owner to grant the use of it to another , for a given period , for a return by way of rent or other compensation . But this proves nothing , unless it can be shown that the courts have ...
... common arrangement of personal property for the owner to grant the use of it to another , for a given period , for a return by way of rent or other compensation . But this proves nothing , unless it can be shown that the courts have ...
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Page 564 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 236 - Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt the real property of associations from either State, county or municipal taxes, to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed...
Page 207 - All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends, are objects of taxation; but those over which it does not extend, are, upon the soundest principles, exempt from taxation.
Page 670 - No person or corporation shall, directly or indirectly, take or receive any money, goods or things in action, or in any other way, any greater sum or greater value for the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or things in action, than is above prescribed.
Page 220 - ... that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such state...
Page 690 - An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, by which a party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offence. § 3. Every other remedy is a special proceeding.
Page 207 - The sovereignty of a state extends to everything which exists by its own authority, or is introduced by its permission; but does it extend to those means which are employed by congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Page 206 - This opinion does not deprive the States of any resources which they originally possessed. It does not extend to a tax paid by the real property of the bank, in common with the other real property within the State, nor to a tax imposed on the interest which the citizens of Maryland may hold in this institution, in common with other property of the same description throughout the State.
Page 205 - Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent all the shares in any of the said associations, held by any person or body corporate, from being included in the valuation of the personal property of such person or corporation, in the assessment of taxes imposed by or under State authority...
Page 406 - ... shall be construed to include any real estate, or any real estate to which such description shall extend (as the case may be), which he may have power to appoint in any manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an execution of such power, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will...