Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, 66권D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1875 Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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acres action administrator aforesaid amount answer appellant appellee applied arbitrator assigned authority award bequest bill bond BOULDIN Buford cause Circuit court claim Clark clause commissioner Confederate contract controversy counsel County court court of equity creditor Danville debt debtor deceased December declared decree deed deed of trust defendant delivered the opinion depreciated currency entitled error evidence ex'or ex'r execution executor fact filed Fitzgerald fund Gillespie Goolsby Gratt heirs held Hendricks husband interest January Term John Judge judgment June Term legatees legislature liability lien Lynchburg March Term Mary ment paid parties payment personal estate plaintiff plaintiff in error Pollock's adm'r possession principles provision purchase money question real estate received record referred reversed rule Septem'r Term sheriff Skinker Smyth county sold Statham statute suit surety Sutherlin taxes thereof tion trust usury valid Virginia widow wife William William Kenny witness
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9 페이지 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
684 페이지 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...
873 페이지 - The general rule, therefore, is, that a lunatic or a person affected with insanity is admissible as a witness if he have sufficient understanding to apprehend the obligation of an oath, and to be capable of giving a correct account of the matters which he has seen or heard in reference to the questions at issue...
909 페이지 - Burglary is defined to be, a breaking and entering of the mansion-house of another in the night, with intent to commit some felony within the same, whether such felonious intent be executed or not.
364 페이지 - ... where an executor or administrator is a party, the other party shall not be permitted to testify in his own favor, unless the contract in issue was originally made with a person who is living and competent to testify, except as to such acts and contracts as have been done or made since the probate of the will or the appointment of the administrator.
759 페이지 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
137 페이지 - ... a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court.
458 페이지 - Circuit court, and if the appellees desire it, a rule awarded against the purchaser to show cause why the sale should not be set aside, and such proceedings thereupon had as the case may require.
387 페이지 - So the giving up a suit or proceedings, instituted to try a question respecting which the law is doubtful, is a good consideration for a promise to pay a stipulated sum...
268 페이지 - The powers of the agent are, prima facie, coextensive with the business intrusted to his care, and will not be narrowed by limitations not communicated to the person with whom he deals. An insurance company, establishing a local agency, must be held responsible to the parties with whom they transact business for the acts and declarations of the agent, within the scope of his employment, as if they proceeded from the principal.