The Office and Duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a Guide to Sheriffs, Coroners, Clerks, Constables, and Other Civil Officers: According to the Laws of North Carolina. With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of this State, the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments Thereto; and a Collection of the Most Approved Forms |
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... aforesaid , the jus- tice shall give judgment against such garnishce for the plain- tiff's full demand , with costs , and award execution accord- ingly . Where any property , attached as aforesaid , shall be claimed by any person or ...
... aforesaid , the jus- tice shall give judgment against such garnishce for the plain- tiff's full demand , with costs , and award execution accord- ingly . Where any property , attached as aforesaid , shall be claimed by any person or ...
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... aforesaid do respectively hold or have returned in the gar- nishment , and no more ; but the security replevying , shall not avail themselves of paying the value of the property so replc- vied , unless such security shall , on the ...
... aforesaid do respectively hold or have returned in the gar- nishment , and no more ; but the security replevying , shall not avail themselves of paying the value of the property so replc- vied , unless such security shall , on the ...
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... aforesaid and give security as aforesaid . But in case such woman shall upon oath , before any two justices , accuse any man of being the father of a bastard child or children begotten of her body , such person so accused shall be ...
... aforesaid and give security as aforesaid . But in case such woman shall upon oath , before any two justices , accuse any man of being the father of a bastard child or children begotten of her body , such person so accused shall be ...
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... aforesaid , shall keep any horse or mare running at large , except one gelding and one spayed mare , as aforesaid , it shall and may be lawful for any person to take up the same , who is obliged and directed to give notice thereof in ...
... aforesaid , shall keep any horse or mare running at large , except one gelding and one spayed mare , as aforesaid , it shall and may be lawful for any person to take up the same , who is obliged and directed to give notice thereof in ...
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... aforesaid . If any person or persons shall see any other person or per- sons committing any of the crimes aforesaid , and shall not discover the same , in ten days , to some magistrate , then and in such case , such person or persons ...
... aforesaid . If any person or persons shall see any other person or per- sons committing any of the crimes aforesaid , and shall not discover the same , in ten days , to some magistrate , then and in such case , such person or persons ...
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Page 359 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 347 - Georgia, and containing about 5,000 acres more or less, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof...
Page 359 - State, is not perhaps to be expected ; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest alone been consulted the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others...
Page 339 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.
Page 339 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of Magistrate, Legislator, or Judge, to be hereditary.
Page 354 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 361 - ... from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
Page 369 - Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said party of the second part...
Page 358 - That the preceding constitution be laid before the United States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 360 - Congress that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred ; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.