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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... thereof to the defendants , then commissioners of the said county , and then tendered to them an indenture from himself and Elizabeth his wife , to them and their successors in office , for pub- lic use , for one perch of land round the ...
... thereof to the defendants , then commissioners of the said county , and then tendered to them an indenture from himself and Elizabeth his wife , to them and their successors in office , for pub- lic use , for one perch of land round the ...
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... of the propriety of erecting or repairing the bridge prayed for . And if the court and jury shall approve thereof , the court shall make an order , & c . In the present instance , the bridge was finished before 1800 ] 3 OF PENNSYLVANIA .
... of the propriety of erecting or repairing the bridge prayed for . And if the court and jury shall approve thereof , the court shall make an order , & c . In the present instance , the bridge was finished before 1800 ] 3 OF PENNSYLVANIA .
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... thereof , she was to relinquish the land and receive a sum of money and sundry specific articles as an equivalent . Considering the present will as a simple question of intention , it is but mere conjecture to say , that the testator ...
... thereof , she was to relinquish the land and receive a sum of money and sundry specific articles as an equivalent . Considering the present will as a simple question of intention , it is but mere conjecture to say , that the testator ...
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... thereof , but made no return thereof into the sur- veyor general's office , nor was he applied to for that purpose . It did not appear , when the survey said to have been made on the ap- plication of John Seely , was returned into the ...
... thereof , but made no return thereof into the sur- veyor general's office , nor was he applied to for that purpose . It did not appear , when the survey said to have been made on the ap- plication of John Seely , was returned into the ...
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... thereof , on the ground of his grand - mother's dying seized thereof intestate . The said Penelope Haley made a will , dated 10th February 1792 , whereby she devised to her daughter Margaret Craige , a house and lot in Pewterplatter ...
... thereof , on the ground of his grand - mother's dying seized thereof intestate . The said Penelope Haley made a will , dated 10th February 1792 , whereby she devised to her daughter Margaret Craige , a house and lot in Pewterplatter ...
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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.
Page 304 - Legislature ; and the military shall, in all cases and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power. SEC. 25. That no soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
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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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