The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 10Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1890 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... common - law disabilities have been removed , she will be bound by an estoppel in pais as any other person . But where the contract relates to a matter concerning which all the common - law disabilities continue , so that the contract ...
... common - law disabilities have been removed , she will be bound by an estoppel in pais as any other person . But where the contract relates to a matter concerning which all the common - law disabilities continue , so that the contract ...
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... common - law disabilities have been removed , she will be bound by an estoppel in pais , as any other person , and in case she makes affirmative representations concerning the character in which she proposes to contract , -whether for ...
... common - law disabilities have been removed , she will be bound by an estoppel in pais , as any other person , and in case she makes affirmative representations concerning the character in which she proposes to contract , -whether for ...
Page 20
... common law , deprives a married woman of all power to convey or encumber her separate real estate except by deed in which her husband shall join . With- out the joinder of the person who occupies toward her the legal relation of husband ...
... common law , deprives a married woman of all power to convey or encumber her separate real estate except by deed in which her husband shall join . With- out the joinder of the person who occupies toward her the legal relation of husband ...
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... common law , married women could not make valid contracts : Dobbins v . Hubbard , 17 Ark . 189 ; 65 Am . Dec. 425 ; but under most of the state stat- utes married women have been extended more or less powers to contract and be ...
... common law , married women could not make valid contracts : Dobbins v . Hubbard , 17 Ark . 189 ; 65 Am . Dec. 425 ; but under most of the state stat- utes married women have been extended more or less powers to contract and be ...
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... common - law principles , but is valid in the hands of a third person who takes it in due course of trade , before maturity , for value , and without notice of the purpose for which it was executed or drawn , unless declared to be void ...
... common - law principles , but is valid in the hands of a third person who takes it in due course of trade , before maturity , for value , and without notice of the purpose for which it was executed or drawn , unless declared to be void ...
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Page 171 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment
Page 60 - Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done.
Page 526 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 788 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself...
Page 788 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 28 - All promises, notes, bills, bonds, covenants, contracts, agreements, judgments, mortgages, or other securities or conveyances, made, given, granted, drawn or entered into, or executed by any person whatsoever, where the whole, or any part of the consideration thereof, shall be for any money, property, or other valuable thing, won by any gaming, or playing at cards, dice, or any other game or games...
Page 266 - The obligation of a contract is "the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 197; Story, op. cit., § 1378. This Court has said that "the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms. This principle embraces alike those which affect its validity, construction, discharge and enforcement.
Page 432 - ... every right to, or interest in, the land which may subsist in third persons, to the diminution of the value of the land, but consistent with the passing of the fee by the conveyance...
Page 461 - ... survive the testator, such issue shall take the estate so given by the will, in the same manner...
Page 490 - A man may not take contradictory positions; and where he has a right to choose one of two modes of redress, and the two are so inconsistent that the assertion of one involves the negation or repudiation of the other, his deliberate and settled choice of one, with knowledge, or the means of knowledge of such facts as would authorize a resort to each, will preclude him thereafter from going back and electing again.