Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 18F. Hunt, 1848 - Commerce |
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... admiralty ..... case in U. S. district court .... Lyons , description of ..................... . ....... 648 Metals and ores of America ................... 115 115 .... ........ 561 44 relative weight of ............ ......
... admiralty ..... case in U. S. district court .... Lyons , description of ..................... . ....... 648 Metals and ores of America ................... 115 115 .... ........ 561 44 relative weight of ............ ......
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... Court per Story , Judge . * They might , and , indeed , must have placed a just confidence in the government , that , in found- ing the city , it would do no act which would obstruct its prosperity , or in- terfere with its great ...
... Court per Story , Judge . * They might , and , indeed , must have placed a just confidence in the government , that , in found- ing the city , it would do no act which would obstruct its prosperity , or in- terfere with its great ...
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... court . He gave , as his excuse , that his father had died during his absence from home , and that his mother had written to him conjuring him to return and provide for her support . The mandarins admitted the piety of this excuse ; but ...
... court . He gave , as his excuse , that his father had died during his absence from home , and that his mother had written to him conjuring him to return and provide for her support . The mandarins admitted the piety of this excuse ; but ...
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... court , where justice was done to the poor as equitably as to the rich , and every one was made to understand that he could hold , without fear of having it taken away , that which was his own . He called on all the petty Dyack chiefs ...
... court , where justice was done to the poor as equitably as to the rich , and every one was made to understand that he could hold , without fear of having it taken away , that which was his own . He called on all the petty Dyack chiefs ...
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... Court of the city of New York . Charles Oakley vs. Howland & Aspinwall . * Where a person who contracted a debt in his own name , had confessed judgment in a joint suit against himself , and another sued as his partner , upon whom ...
... Court of the city of New York . Charles Oakley vs. Howland & Aspinwall . * Where a person who contracted a debt in his own name , had confessed judgment in a joint suit against himself , and another sued as his partner , upon whom ...
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Page 440 - ... but the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the estates and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee shall be liable, in like manner and to the same extent, as the testator or intestate, or the ward or person interested in such fund, would have been if he had been living and competent to act, and held the stock in his own name.
Page 144 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven; a land which the Lord thy God careth for; the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Page 439 - All elections shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he owns shares of stock...
Page 440 - If any certificate or report made, or public notice given, by the officers of any such company, in pursuance of the provisions of this act. shall be false in any material representation, all the officers who shall have signed the same, knowing it to be false, shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company contracted while they are stockholders or officers thereof.
Page 21 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Page 440 - The stockholders of any company organized under the provisions of this act, shall be jointly and severally individually liable for all debts that may be due and owing to all their laborers, servants and apprentices, for services performed for such corporation.
Page 442 - Every officer or agent of any such company, who shall neglect to make any proper entry in such book, or shall refuse or neglect to exhibit the same, or allow the same to be inspected, and extracts to be taken therefrom...
Page 440 - But before any corporation shall be entitled to diminish the amount of its capital stock, if the amount of its debts and liabilities shall exceed the amount of capital to which...
Page 394 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 267 - And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.