Howard's Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 67William Gould & Son, 1884 |
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... determine in what districts of such towns said labor should be performed . If the statute of 1837 still remains operative and unrepealed , the commissioners of highways of the town of Hancock had an undoubted right to assess the ...
... determine in what districts of such towns said labor should be performed . If the statute of 1837 still remains operative and unrepealed , the commissioners of highways of the town of Hancock had an undoubted right to assess the ...
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... determining this question . A somewhat early case upon the question was the case of Bowen agt . Lease ( 5 Hill , 225 ) , in which it was said , by NELSON , Ch . J. , who delivered the opinion of the court in that case : " The invariable ...
... determining this question . A somewhat early case upon the question was the case of Bowen agt . Lease ( 5 Hill , 225 ) , in which it was said , by NELSON , Ch . J. , who delivered the opinion of the court in that case : " The invariable ...
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... determining that her children and the issue of her deceased child must take share and share alike , and it must now be determined that the children of Mrs. Stuyvesant who are now living , and Julia S. Winterhoff , the daughter of Mrs ...
... determining that her children and the issue of her deceased child must take share and share alike , and it must now be determined that the children of Mrs. Stuyvesant who are now living , and Julia S. Winterhoff , the daughter of Mrs ...
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... determined by the court of last resort . The appellant , in tendering such an undertaking , offered respondent instead of security a lawsuit . It is hardly proper under such circum- stances to hold respondent to the obligation to ...
... determined by the court of last resort . The appellant , in tendering such an undertaking , offered respondent instead of security a lawsuit . It is hardly proper under such circum- stances to hold respondent to the obligation to ...
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... determine whether it would not have been competent for the governing committee , after Hutchinson had read his answer , to proceed immediately to vote upon the question of his expulsion . It may be con- ceded that they would have had ...
... determine whether it would not have been competent for the governing committee , after Hutchinson had read his answer , to proceed immediately to vote upon the question of his expulsion . It may be con- ceded that they would have had ...
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Page 231 - The answer of the defendant must contain: 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief.
Page 294 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything ; and is therefore called in our law French a.
Page 118 - ... if such a subscribing witness has forgotten the occurrence, or testifies against the execution of the will ; the will may nevertheless be established, upon proof of the handwriting of the testator, and of the subscribing witnesses, and also of such other circumstances as would be sufficient to prove the will upon the trial of an action.
Page 262 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense ; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 205 - ... shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted...
Page 266 - A cause of action, arising out of the contract or transaction set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff's claim, or connected with the subject of the action.
Page 28 - And if it be complained that by this inactivity of the Courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that Courts of Justice do not pretend to furnish cures for all the miseries of human life.
Page 140 - 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, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted. A person, with whom or in whose name, a contract is made for the benefit of another, is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 140 - ... by the judgment, be made chargeable only upon the estate, fund, or party represented, unless the court shall direct the same to be paid by the plaintiff or defendant, personally, for mismanagement or bad faith in the action or defense.
Page 296 - A married woman may bargain, sell, assign and transfer her separate personal property, and carry on any trade or business, and perform any labor or services on her sole and separate account ; and the earnings of any married woman, from her trade, business, labor or services, shall be her sole and separate property, and may be used or invested by her in her own name...