A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and Comments, Volume 6Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1824 - Law |
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... pleaded payment ; and issue joined ; and plt . gave notice of trial . The deft . returned the paper back , and set out a false oyer of the bond , and pleaded as before ; upon which the plt . enrolled the true condition , and de : nur ...
... pleaded payment ; and issue joined ; and plt . gave notice of trial . The deft . returned the paper back , and set out a false oyer of the bond , and pleaded as before ; upon which the plt . enrolled the true condition , and de : nur ...
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... plead an instrument , CH . 177 . with a profert , but he pleads it with one , it is but surplusage , and the court will not compel him to give oyer of it ; as of letters patent , private statutes , & c . ; yet if pleaded , may be taken ...
... plead an instrument , CH . 177 . with a profert , but he pleads it with one , it is but surplusage , and the court will not compel him to give oyer of it ; as of letters patent , private statutes , & c . ; yet if pleaded , may be taken ...
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... pleads any thing he dare 2 Saund . not directly affirm , or cannot plead for fear of making his plea double ; as if to make title to land , the deft . ought to plead divers descents from several persons , but dare not af- firm they were ...
... pleads any thing he dare 2 Saund . not directly affirm , or cannot plead for fear of making his plea double ; as if to make title to land , the deft . ought to plead divers descents from several persons , but dare not af- firm they were ...
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... pleaded , the protest avails not ; as if the villain sued his lord , and the lord protest the plt . is his villain , and plead his other matter in bar , and issue is joined ; now , if the issue be found for the lord , the plt . is a ...
... pleaded , the protest avails not ; as if the villain sued his lord , and the lord protest the plt . is his villain , and plead his other matter in bar , and issue is joined ; now , if the issue be found for the lord , the plt . is a ...
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... pleaded the husband's bankruptcy , a commission issued , his conformity to the statutes in all points , and his discharge ; but it will be observed , these several facts pleaded , were all connected and essentially tended to one point ...
... pleaded the husband's bankruptcy , a commission issued , his conformity to the statutes in all points , and his discharge ; but it will be observed , these several facts pleaded , were all connected and essentially tended to one point ...
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Page 226 - And no subject shall be arrested, imprisoned, despoiled, or deprived of his property immunities, or privileges, put out of the protection of the law, exiled, or deprived of his life, liberty, or estate, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Page 385 - The Governor and Judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the District, such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the District...
Page 380 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 380 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State.
Page 352 - ... saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it...
Page 724 - States as before defined, and in every case in which any process issuing out of any Court of The United States shall be disobeyed or resisted by any Person or Persons having the custody of any Vessel of War, Cruiser, or other armed Vessel, of any Foreign Prince...
Page 379 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a State is a party, except between a State and its citizens ; and except, also, between a State and citizens of other States, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original, but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Page 724 - ... for the purpose of preventing the carrying on of any such expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or dominions of any f'oreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace.
Page 391 - ... where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any state, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity...
Page 623 - THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property : which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.