Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880Michie Company, 1903 |
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acres adm'r appellant appellees attestation award Beverley bond chancellor circuit court cited claim COALTER common law Commonwealth contract conveyance conveyed county court court of chancery court of equity covenant creditor daughter Davis death debt due debtor declared decree deed of trust defendant Deison devise dollars effect emancipation entitled estate tail evidence execution executor fact fee simple fee tail fieri facias foot-note fraud fraudulent George Pickett give given Gratt half pay heirs held husband hustings court intended interest issue judg judgment jurisdiction jury land Leigh levied lien marriage ment moiety monographic note mortgage Munf objection opinion paid parties payment plaintiff plea possession principal proof proved provision purchase money question Rand S. E. Rep scire facias sell settled sheriff shew slaves sold statute suit surety Tate testator's thereof tion trial usury verdict Virginia whole wife witnesses words writ
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292 페이지 - It was introduced to prevent disorder, from a failure of justice and defect of police. Therefore it ought to be used upon all occasions where the law has established no specific remedy, and where in justice and good government there ought to be one.
311 페이지 - To effect it, no violence was necessary, no deprivation of natural right, but rather an enlargement of it by a repeal of the law. For this would authorize the present holder to divide the property among his children equally, as his affections were divided ; and would place them, by natural generation, on the level of their fellow citizens.
275 페이지 - ... children and heirs" just referred to. By an act of the congress of Texas, passed January 28, 1840, it was provided as follows: "In making title to land by descent it shall be no bar to a party that any ancestor through whom he derives his descent from the intestate is or hath been an alien...
352 페이지 - I am of opinion that, by the law of England, in order to transfer property by gift there must either be a deed or instrument of gift, or there must be an actual delivery of the thing to the donee," and he went on to refer to the case of Bunn v.
143 페이지 - Where a contingency is limited to depend on an estate of freehold which is capable of supporting a remainder, it shall never be construed to be an executory devise, but a contingent remainder only, and not otherwise.
362 페이지 - ... well avows the taking of the said goods and chattels in the said dwelling-house, in which, &c., and justly, &c...
312 페이지 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
119 페이지 - Courts have for a very considerable time very much inclined to lay hold of any words in the will to tie up the generality of the expression " dying without issue," and confine it to " dying without issue living at the time of the person's decease.
312 페이지 - ... upon you, and regained so much of it as to make it a drawn one, by dexterous manoeuvres, skirmishes in detail, and the recovery of small advantages, which, little singly, were important all together. You never knew when you were clear of him, but were harassed by his perseverance, until the patience was worn down of all who had less of it than himself. Add to this, that he was one of the most virtuous and benevolent of men, the kindest friend, the most amiable and pleasant of companions, which...
173 페이지 - Secondly, it is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid out of my personal estate.