Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida, Volume 17 |
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Page 116
... debt without the consent of a copartner , or in any transaction not within the scope of the copart- nership business , and in a variety of other cases . The judgment here assumes the liability of both defend- ants and precludes the ...
... debt without the consent of a copartner , or in any transaction not within the scope of the copart- nership business , and in a variety of other cases . The judgment here assumes the liability of both defend- ants and precludes the ...
Page 131
... debts after exhaustion of personal assets . In this case the notice of intended application is given in a newspaper as required , and the fact of exhaustion of personal assets is recited in the decree as a fact shown . While the better ...
... debts after exhaustion of personal assets . In this case the notice of intended application is given in a newspaper as required , and the fact of exhaustion of personal assets is recited in the decree as a fact shown . While the better ...
Page 137
... debts were . Neither does it show that the Judge of Probate di- rected or limited the sale only to an amount SUFFICIENT to SUP- PLY THE DEFICIENCY . " Your petitioner further shows that the point made by her in paragraph 9 , on pages 3 ...
... debts were . Neither does it show that the Judge of Probate di- rected or limited the sale only to an amount SUFFICIENT to SUP- PLY THE DEFICIENCY . " Your petitioner further shows that the point made by her in paragraph 9 , on pages 3 ...
Page 144
... debt due by him in his private capacity to the executor of the will of the ancestor of the ward , receipts to the executor for the whole or a part of the distributive share of the estate coming to the ward , but there is no actual ...
... debt due by him in his private capacity to the executor of the will of the ancestor of the ward , receipts to the executor for the whole or a part of the distributive share of the estate coming to the ward , but there is no actual ...
Page 154
... debt shall be presumed to be paid , and he and his sureties will be liable . " ( See also 1 Bail . Eq . , 338 ; 2 Ibid . , 203 ; 44 Md . , 504 ; Thomp . Dig . , 201 , §6 . There is here , so far as we can see , no escape from the ...
... debt shall be presumed to be paid , and he and his sureties will be liable . " ( See also 1 Bail . Eq . , 338 ; 2 Ibid . , 203 ; 44 Md . , 504 ; Thomp . Dig . , 201 , §6 . There is here , so far as we can see , no escape from the ...
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Popular passages
Page 171 - 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 540 - In contracts of this description, the undertakings of the respective parties are always considered dependent, unless a contrary intention clearly appears. A different construction would, in many cases, lead to the greatest injustice, and a purchaser might have payment of the consideration money enforced upon him, and yet be disabled from procuring the property for which he paid it.
Page 90 - The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws whenever he receives an injury.
Page 240 - The fiscal year of the corporation shall begin on the first day of January and end on the thirty-first day of December in each year.
Page 264 - In all the cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general, and of uniform operation throughout the State.
Page 485 - A statute may declare that no marriages shall be valid unless they are solemnized in a prescribed manner ; but such an enactment is a very different thing from a law requiring all marriages to be entered into in the presence of a magistrate or a clergyman, or that it be preceded by a license, or publication of banns, or be attested by witnesses.
Page 75 - It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be determined.
Page 517 - No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor, was seized .or possessed of the premises in question within twenty years before the commencement of such action.
Page 815 - No person offered as a witness in any court, or before any officer acting judicially, shall be excluded by reason of his interest In the event of the action...
Page 256 - First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied.