Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 150New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1859 |
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... nature of things , in debts of corporations belongs to the creditors , to whom they are pay- able , and follows their domicile , wherever that may be . Their debts can have no locality separate from the parties to whom they are due ...
... nature of things , in debts of corporations belongs to the creditors , to whom they are pay- able , and follows their domicile , wherever that may be . Their debts can have no locality separate from the parties to whom they are due ...
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... nature of the most intan- gible right , such as a debt without any written evidence thereof , to prevent the legislature from giving it a situs apart from the residence of its owner , but in order to permit this it must have some ...
... nature of the most intan- gible right , such as a debt without any written evidence thereof , to prevent the legislature from giving it a situs apart from the residence of its owner , but in order to permit this it must have some ...
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... nature ; that is , the shareholder cannot by any act of his , nor ordinarily by any act of the law , reduce it to possession . " ( Jermain v . Lake Shore & M. S. R. Co. , 91 N. Y. 492. ) " A share of stock is an incorporeal , intangible ...
... nature ; that is , the shareholder cannot by any act of his , nor ordinarily by any act of the law , reduce it to possession . " ( Jermain v . Lake Shore & M. S. R. Co. , 91 N. Y. 492. ) " A share of stock is an incorporeal , intangible ...
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... nature of the investment made by the decedent when he became the owner of stocks in various corporations organized and doing business in this state ? Necessarily he was either an original investor of capital when the corporation was ...
... nature of the investment made by the decedent when he became the owner of stocks in various corporations organized and doing business in this state ? Necessarily he was either an original investor of capital when the corporation was ...
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... nature of chattels . I think this is a sound conclusion , warranted by the Romaine case , which was decided before the act " to tax gifts , legacies and collateral inheritances " was expanded into the present statute " in relation to ...
... nature of chattels . I think this is a sound conclusion , warranted by the Romaine case , which was decided before the act " to tax gifts , legacies and collateral inheritances " was expanded into the present statute " in relation to ...
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Page 13 - When the transfer is by will or intestate law, of property within the state, and the decedent was a nonresident of the state at the time of his death.
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Page 13 - If a foreign executor, administrator or trustee shall assign or transfer any stock or obligations in this state standing in the name of a decedent, or in trust for a decedent, liable to any such tax, the tax shall be paid to the state comptroller or the treasurer of the proper county on the transfer thereof.
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