The New York State Reporter, Volume 32

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W. C. Little., 1890
"Containing all the current decisions of the courts of record of New York State, namely: Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, New York Superior Court, New York Common Pleas, Superior Court of Buffalo, City Court of New York, City Court of Brooklyn, and the Surrogates' Courts" (varies slightly).

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Page 662 - ... be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and be followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Page 661 - ... or subsequent purchasers in good faith; and shall be conclusive evidence of fraud, unless it shall be made to appear on the part of the persons claiming under such sale or assignment that the same was made in good faith, and without any intent to defraud such creditors or purchasers.
Page 785 - ... shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent as the testator or intestate. or the ward or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
Page 558 - If there was such proof, whether there was, upon all the evidence, such a preponderance of proof, against the existence of any of those facts, that the verdict of a jury, affirming the existence thereof, rendered in an action in the supreme court, triable by a jury, would be set aside by the court, as against the weight of evidence.
Page 590 - Future estates are either vested or contingent. They are vested when there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate. They are contingent while the person to whom, or the event upon which, they are limited to take effect, remains uncertain.
Page 140 - ... part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.
Page 719 - The defendant may, at any time before the trial or judgment, serve upon the plaintiff an offer to allow judgment to be taken against him for the sum or property, or to the effect therein specified.
Page 65 - The defendant pleaded that the contract was oral, and within the statute of frauds, because it was " not to be performed within one year from the making thereof...
Page 798 - ... presumptive evidence that the sale and all proceedings prior thereto, from and including the assessment of the...
Page 290 - First Upon information and belief, that in the year 1871, at the city of N'ew Tork, one Robert Barkley died, leaving a last will and testament which was duly admitted to probate by the Surrogate of the County of New Tork.

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