Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: With Some Select Cases at Nisi Prius, and in the Circuit Courts, Volume 3J. Campbell, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... possession ; that had the plain- tiff attended the taking of the deposition in dispute on the 10th March last , he would have known every minute particular of the defence from the oath of the surveyor who had traced the different lines ...
... possession ; that had the plain- tiff attended the taking of the deposition in dispute on the 10th March last , he would have known every minute particular of the defence from the oath of the surveyor who had traced the different lines ...
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... possessions . " And finally he appoints his wife Isabella his sole executrix . The demandants replied , that the ... possession of the tract devised to them . It appeared that this farm was of the yearly value of 30 % . and a verdict ...
... possessions . " And finally he appoints his wife Isabella his sole executrix . The demandants replied , that the ... possession of the tract devised to them . It appeared that this farm was of the yearly value of 30 % . and a verdict ...
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... possession . " There is no strong and necessary implication , that the widow should not have both her devise and dower . The mind in such a case , must be free of all doubts . The devise to her is not inconsistent with , or repug nant ...
... possession . " There is no strong and necessary implication , that the widow should not have both her devise and dower . The mind in such a case , must be free of all doubts . The devise to her is not inconsistent with , or repug nant ...
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... possession , shortly before the commencement of this suit . A writ of possession , had been taken out in the ejectment , returnable to January term 1792 , but it did not appear to be executed . The defendant's counsel objected that the ...
... possession , shortly before the commencement of this suit . A writ of possession , had been taken out in the ejectment , returnable to January term 1792 , but it did not appear to be executed . The defendant's counsel objected that the ...
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... possession of his companion . His redress should be proportioned to the injury he has received . The recovery in the case cited from Lilly , must mean an execution exe- cuted ; it cannot be understood of the verdict , 2 Wils . 121 ...
... possession of his companion . His redress should be proportioned to the injury he has received . The recovery in the case cited from Lilly , must mean an execution exe- cuted ; it cannot be understood of the verdict , 2 Wils . 121 ...
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Page 516 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence: And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
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Page 299 - No member of Congress from this State, nor any person holding or exercising any office or appointment of trust or profit under the United States, shall at the same time hold or exercise any office in this State to which a salary, fees, or perquisites shall be attached. The General Assembly may, by law, declare what offices are incompatible.
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Page 271 - A distinction is, however, made between a condition in deed and a limitation, which Littleton denominates also a condition in law. For when an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for any longer time than till the contingency happens upon which the estate is to fail, this is denominated a limitation...
Page 299 - The judicial power of this commonwealth shall be vested in a supreme court, in courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, in a court of common pleas, orphans' court, register's court, and a court of quarter sessions of the peace, for each county; in justices of the peace, and in such other courts as the legislature may, from time to time establish.
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