Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, During the Years 1839 [to 1851]: 1847/1848J. Geo. Harris, 1849 |
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action administrator adverse possession affirmed aforesaid alleged answer assumpsit attorney authority bank bill bond Cator cause chancellor chancery court charge circuit court claim common law complainant contract conveyance conveyed corporation county court court of chancery court of equity creditors curtesy Davidson county debt declaration decree deed of trust defendant appealed defendant in error delivered the opinion dollars endorsement entitled equity et ux evidence execution executor fact favor feme covert fendant filed fraud Guion Haywood heirs held Humph husband indictment intent interest issue John jurisdiction jury justice levied Mary Stephens Maury county ment negroes paid party payment person plaintiff in error plea pleaded possession promise proof proved recover rendered sheriff slaves sold statute of limitations sued suit tenant Tennessee term thereof tion tract of land trial TURLEY usurious void warranty wife William witness writ Yerg
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Page 9 - All property shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained in such manner as the Legislature shall direct, so that taxes shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of the same value...
Page 453 - ... is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Page 453 - Unless the promise or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some note or memorandum thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized.
Page 71 - For, in point of law, there is no objection to the insertion of several distinct felonies of the same degree, though committed at different times, in the same indictment against the same offender (o); and it is no ground either of demurrer or arrest of judgment (/>). Upon this ground it has been holden that an indictment on 37"Geo.
Page 235 - To accept and execute all such trusts of every description, as may be committed to them by any person or persons whatsoever, or may be transferred to them by order of any court of record whatever.
Page 310 - No person or persons, or their heirs, shall have, sue, or maintain any action or suit, either in law or equity, for any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, but within seven years next after his, her, or their right to commence, have, or maintain such suit shall have come, fallen, or accrued...
Page 158 - States; and such discharge and certificate, when duly granted, shall in all courts of justice be deemed a full and complete discharge of all debts, contracts and other engagements of such bankrupt which are provable under this act...
Page 9 - States, two only of its members dissenting, has decided that there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States, or its recent amendments, which impugns its validity.
Page 454 - in cases of fraud, equity should relieve, even against the words of the statute; as if one agreement in writing should be proposed and drawn, and another fraudulently and secretly brought in and executed in lieu of the former; in this or such like cases of fraud, equity would relieve; but where there is no fraud, only relying upon the honor, word, or promise of the defendant, the statute making those promises void, equity will not interfere.
Page 220 - Upon that occasion he said, that negotiable paper can be assigned or transferred by an agent or factor or by any other person, fraudulently, so as to bind the true owner as against the holder, provided it be taken in the usual course of trade, and for a fair and valuable consideration without notice of the fraud.