Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania by Horace Binney, Volumen5William P. Farrand and Company, 1813 |
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... proved , in addition to some of the facts before stated , that Alexander Lowry the grandfather , had been very solicitous for the interest of all Elliot's children , had obtained the land for them by paying the arrears of purchase money ...
... proved , in addition to some of the facts before stated , that Alexander Lowry the grandfather , had been very solicitous for the interest of all Elliot's children , had obtained the land for them by paying the arrears of purchase money ...
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... proved by the silence of other members of the family ; and this would be sufficient to bind an infant , because it comes within that rule that infants are bound by acts that they ought to do , although not done in form of law . Zouch v ...
... proved by the silence of other members of the family ; and this would be sufficient to bind an infant , because it comes within that rule that infants are bound by acts that they ought to do , although not done in form of law . Zouch v ...
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... made by the appellant to prove that the island was undervalued , or that any person would have given more than the estimate VOL . V. B 1812 . ELLIOT v . ELLIOT . 1812 . ELLIOT V. ELLIOT . of the jury . OF PENNSYLVANIA . 9.
... made by the appellant to prove that the island was undervalued , or that any person would have given more than the estimate VOL . V. B 1812 . ELLIOT v . ELLIOT . 1812 . ELLIOT V. ELLIOT . of the jury . OF PENNSYLVANIA . 9.
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... proved that ten of the jury thought the valuation too high , and were induced to fix it at 10 % . an acre , only in ... prove by Mr. Smith , who has surveyed it . On the contrary there is the sur- vey of the sworn officer of the ...
... proved that ten of the jury thought the valuation too high , and were induced to fix it at 10 % . an acre , only in ... prove by Mr. Smith , who has surveyed it . On the contrary there is the sur- vey of the sworn officer of the ...
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... proved , " and remains of record in the register's office & c . And the " said Philip Wendell Herring avers , that the said Nicholas " Bittinger and Adam Peiffer , the persons appointed execu- ❝tors in the said will , on the day and ...
... proved , " and remains of record in the register's office & c . And the " said Philip Wendell Herring avers , that the said Nicholas " Bittinger and Adam Peiffer , the persons appointed execu- ❝tors in the said will , on the day and ...
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Página 22 - They have not, one of them a seisin of one half or moiety, and the other of the other moiety; neither can one be exclusively seised of one acre, and his companion of another; but each has an undivided moiety of the whole, and not the whole of an undivided moiety.