Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Volume 5Callaghan, 1884 |
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... debts , and of which the wife has made no conveyance , shall , under the direction of the probate court , be set apart by the exec- utor as her property in fee - simple , upon the death of the hus- band , if she survives him . " The ...
... debts , and of which the wife has made no conveyance , shall , under the direction of the probate court , be set apart by the exec- utor as her property in fee - simple , upon the death of the hus- band , if she survives him . " The ...
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... debts existing against the es- tate . This is a provision for the wife in lieu of dower , and it becomes a vested right on the death of the husband . The statute says one - half in value shall be set apart . What is the widow's interest ...
... debts existing against the es- tate . This is a provision for the wife in lieu of dower , and it becomes a vested right on the death of the husband . The statute says one - half in value shall be set apart . What is the widow's interest ...
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... debt due , and sought for this reason to avoid the foreclosure proceedings , held , ( 1 ) that it was com- petent for the trustee to file a bill to foreclose for the interest due ; ( 2 ) that the plaintiff ratified the action of its ...
... debt due , and sought for this reason to avoid the foreclosure proceedings , held , ( 1 ) that it was com- petent for the trustee to file a bill to foreclose for the interest due ; ( 2 ) that the plaintiff ratified the action of its ...
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... debts con- tracted by the court . The history of Wallace v . Loomis , supra , furnishes an instructive lesson on this subject . This court has uniformly refused to arm its receivers with Credit Company of London , Eng . , v . 26 CIRCUIT ...
... debts con- tracted by the court . The history of Wallace v . Loomis , supra , furnishes an instructive lesson on this subject . This court has uniformly refused to arm its receivers with Credit Company of London , Eng . , v . 26 CIRCUIT ...
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... debts for repairs and other purposes was rescinded , he had in- curred debts to the amount of some $ 22,000 , chiefly for ties and a machine shop . The ties were indispensable if trains were to be kept running , and the machine shop was ...
... debts for repairs and other purposes was rescinded , he had in- curred debts to the amount of some $ 22,000 , chiefly for ties and a machine shop . The ties were indispensable if trains were to be kept running , and the machine shop was ...
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Page 277 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 308 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises...
Page 253 - ... that the plaintiff was a shareholder at the time of the transaction of which he complains or that his share thereafter devolved on him by operation of law...
Page 278 - ... along the vein or lode ; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface...
Page 277 - ... application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim ; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer claim is not known, a patent for the placer claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the boundaries thereof.
Page 105 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery or non-delivery of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Page 127 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 210 - ... not known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof, and not in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may upon payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 151 - What is implied in a statute is as much a part of it as what is expressed.
Page 14 - Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.