Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 11; Volume 52Published for John Conrad and Company, 1851 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... void , and that Simon Gratz be decreed to account , & c . The bill involved the consideration of matters and accounts , commencing in 1769 , and continuing down to the time when it was filed . It was a family dispute which had been ...
... void , and that Simon Gratz be decreed to account , & c . The bill involved the consideration of matters and accounts , commencing in 1769 , and continuing down to the time when it was filed . It was a family dispute which had been ...
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... void as to him , and a mere general denial of all knowledge of fraud will not avail him , if the trans- action is such as a court of equity cannot sanction . " See also Mechanics ' Bank v . Seaton , 1 Peters , 309 . The appellants ...
... void as to him , and a mere general denial of all knowledge of fraud will not avail him , if the trans- action is such as a court of equity cannot sanction . " See also Mechanics ' Bank v . Seaton , 1 Peters , 309 . The appellants ...
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... sales and rents of the land . The court below decreed that the conveyance was void for fraud ; vet , as the lands had been bought of Gratz since by innocent Gratz's Executors et al . v . Cohen et al 16 SUPREME COURT .
... sales and rents of the land . The court below decreed that the conveyance was void for fraud ; vet , as the lands had been bought of Gratz since by innocent Gratz's Executors et al . v . Cohen et al 16 SUPREME COURT .
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... void . In deciding this question , let us look first to the terms and circumstances of the agreement . - She stipulated , in relation to the suit then pending , to have the exceptions overruled , and the award confirmed for $ 2,967 ...
... void . In deciding this question , let us look first to the terms and circumstances of the agreement . - She stipulated , in relation to the suit then pending , to have the exceptions overruled , and the award confirmed for $ 2,967 ...
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... void " ; and assigned for breach , " that on the 2d day of June , 1840 , the said Girault , as receiver of public money as aforesaid , had received a large amount of public money , to wit , the sum of $ 8,952.37 , which said sum of ...
... void " ; and assigned for breach , " that on the 2d day of June , 1840 , the said Girault , as receiver of public money as aforesaid , had received a large amount of public money , to wit , the sum of $ 8,952.37 , which said sum of ...
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Page 167 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 173 - And the said records and judicial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 537 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission...
Page 247 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 140 - This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Rhode Island, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof it is now here ordered, adjudged, and decreed by this court, that the decree of the said circuit court...
Page 322 - ... only in the case where its utterance would convict the party of a previous falsehood; — would be the denial of a previous affirmation upon the faith of which persons had dealt and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a doctrine, therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in order to prevent fraud and falsehood, and imposes silence on a party only when, in conscience and honesty, he should not be allowed to speak.
Page 566 - Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and...
Page 300 - ... in witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
Page 472 - On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said circuit court in this cause be and the same is hereby reversed, with costs, and that this cause be and the same is hereby remanded to the said circuit court, with directions to award a venire facias de novo, and to proceed therewith, in conformity to the opinion of this court.
Page 299 - Post (in his Actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to him thereof made by the said George Welsh for one whole year by Indenture bearing date the day next Before the day of the date of...