Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 70D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1878 Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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... exceptions , which was signed and sealed by the court and made a part of the record ; from which it appears that the only evidence in- troduced in support of the motion was , a copy of the record of the said action on the said bill ...
... exceptions , which was signed and sealed by the court and made a part of the record ; from which it appears that the only evidence in- troduced in support of the motion was , a copy of the record of the said action on the said bill ...
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... exceptions , real or apparent , now as well established as the rule itself . Some of the more prominent of these are ... exception , if exception it be , that parties to a deed may , by oral evi- dence , prove that a deed , absolute on ...
... exceptions , real or apparent , now as well established as the rule itself . Some of the more prominent of these are ... exception , if exception it be , that parties to a deed may , by oral evi- dence , prove that a deed , absolute on ...
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... exceptions are necessary , they should specify with rea- sonable certainty , the particular grounds of objection , so as to enable the opposite party to see clearly what he is to meet , and the court what it is to decide . 5. An ante ...
... exceptions are necessary , they should specify with rea- sonable certainty , the particular grounds of objection , so as to enable the opposite party to see clearly what he is to meet , and the court what it is to decide . 5. An ante ...
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... exceptions ; and the heirs of Robert I. Crockett Crockett ( defendants ) and David Sexton , and Laurence , Myers & Sexton & Co. ( complainants ) united in exceptions to the confima- tion of the sale . By the last mentioned exceptions ...
... exceptions ; and the heirs of Robert I. Crockett Crockett ( defendants ) and David Sexton , and Laurence , Myers & Sexton & Co. ( complainants ) united in exceptions to the confima- tion of the sale . By the last mentioned exceptions ...
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... exceptions to Commissioner Caldwell's sup- plemental report . The first two are easily disposed of . Exception No. 1 is , because , as alleged , the report is incomplete in not showing the amount of money received by the commissioner ...
... exceptions to Commissioner Caldwell's sup- plemental report . The first two are easily disposed of . Exception No. 1 is , because , as alleged , the report is incomplete in not showing the amount of money received by the commissioner ...
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Page 572 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 572 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 280 - ... from all debts and claims which by said act are made provable against his estate, and which existed on the...
Page 572 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (if death had not ensued,) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages, in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have...
Page 572 - That every such Action shall be for the Benefit of the Wife, Husband, Parent, and Child of the Person whose Death shall have been so caused...
Page 492 - it is undoubtedly settled law that a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction upon a question directly involved in one suit is conclusive as to that question in another suit between the same parties. But to this operation of the judgment it must appear, either upon the face of the record or be shown by extrinsic evidence, that the precise question was raised and determined in the former suit.
Page 240 - This day came again the parties by their counsel, and the court, having maturely considered the transcript of the record of the decree aforesaid...
Page 236 - Duress, in its more extended sense, means that degree of constraint or danger, either actually inflicted or threatened and impending, which is sufficient, in severity or in apprehension, to overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary firmness.* Opinion of the court.
Page 219 - The plaintiffs stated the ground on which they sought to recover in their first point, by which they asked the court to instruct the jury as follows: "If the jury believe...
Page 62 - Nevertheless. the jury found a verdict for defendants, on the ground that the testatrix was not of sound and disposing mind and memory at the time she executed the will.