Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the City of New York [1871-1892], Volume 56

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Page 529 - Sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare, this my last will and testament, in manner following, that is to say...
Page 204 - A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she shall have lawfully released her right thereto.
Page 337 - The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a collision between an ambulance driven by him and an ice wagon driven by a servant of the defendant.
Page 142 - In that regard he had jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the person of the plaintiff, and his authority continued up to the time he assumed to pass sentence and to issue a commitment.
Page 370 - ... to bring the minds of the buyer and seller toan agreement for a sale, and the price and terms on which it is to be made, and until that is done his right to commissions does not accrue.
Page 459 - The rendition of a judgment is a Judicial act; its entry upon the record is merely ministerial. A Judgment is not what is entered, but what is ordered and considered.
Page 209 - An act, deed, or conveyance, executed or performed by the husband without the assent of his wife, evidenced by her acknowledgment thereof, in...
Page 291 - ... that during the possession of such property by the appellant, he will not commit, or suffer to be committed, any waste thereon, and that if the judgment be affirmed, he will pay the value of the use and occupation of the property, from the time of the appeal until the delivery of possession thereof, pursuant to the judgment...
Page 430 - The judgment should be reversed and a new trial had, with costs to abide the event.
Page 23 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust...

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