A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and the Substance of All Resolutions of a General and Public Nature, and Now in Force, which Have Been Passed in this State, Previous to the Session of the General Assembly of Dec. 1837 : with Occasional Explanatory Notes, and Connecting References : to which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Georgia as Amended, the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries, the Habeas Corpus Act, &c. : Also a Synopsis of the Local Acts, Arranged to Each County, and Classed Under Appropriate Heads. With a Copious Index

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Page 92 - States : and also to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure...
Page 197 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 89 - That, in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved ; but it...
Page 44 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever...
Page 204 - The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Administrator of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits...
Page 369 - And provided further that in case it should at any time happen that an election of Directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved; but it...
Page 146 - Army shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation or federal Alliance of the said States...
Page 197 - Judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 56 - States," and shall so continue until the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and by that name shall be, and are hereby, made able and capable, in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, of...
Page 68 - ... make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure ; and, also, to ordain, establish, and put in execution...

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