Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volumen2 |
Comentarios de la gente - Escribir un comentario
No encontramos ningún comentario en los lugares habituales.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
according action administrator admitted alleged allowed amount answer appear apply assigned authorised authority Bank bill bond bound brought cause charged Circuit Court claim commenced Common Law complainants consideration considered contains contract damages debt decided decision decree deed defendant demand demurrer dollars effect endorsement error evidence exceptions execution executor existed fact favor filed give given grand grant ground held indictment intended interest issue Johns Judge judgment jury Justice land liable matter ment motion necessary notice objection offered opinion paid party payment person plaintiff plaintiff in error plea plead possession present principle proceedings proper prove question reason received record recover reference refused remedy rendered reversed rule sheriff shew slave statute sufficient suit sustain taken term tion trial true verdict witness writ writ of error
Pasajes populares
Página 523 - No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience...
Página 154 - Rep. 258, it was decided, that where a contract grows immediately out of, and is connected with an illegal or immoral act, a court of justice will not lend its aid to enforce it.
Página 77 - It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or be incapable of explanation, by reason of the death or removal of witnesses.
Página 152 - And that all assignments and transfers of the right of pre-emption given by this act, prior to the issuance of patents, shall be null and void.
Página 40 - Congress, may not be appropriated for satisfying military land bounties, and for other purposes, shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to the true meridian, and by others crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of six miles square...
Página 541 - No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors, to the fourth generation inclusive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person.) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons.
Página 437 - ... other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost or toll therefor.
Página 149 - But a mere intruder cannot enter on a person actually seized and eject him, and then question his title or set up an outstanding title in another. The maxim that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's, is applicable to all actions for the recovery of property. But if the plaintiff had actual prior possession of the land, this is strong enough to enable him to recover it from a mere trespasser who entered without any title.
Página 41 - All the corners marked in the surveys, returned by the surveyorgeneral, or by the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be established as the proper corners of sections, or subdivisions of sections, which they were intended to designate...
Página 223 - he is separated from the world by his public ordination, and carries with him constantly, whether in or out of the pulpit, superior obligations to exhibit in his whole deportment the purity of that religion which he professes to teach.