The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 35Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... debt or other chose in action , in equity , no particu- lar form of words is necessary . Any words which show an intention of transferring or appropriating the chose in action to the assignee for a valuable consideration are sufficient ...
... debt or other chose in action , in equity , no particu- lar form of words is necessary . Any words which show an intention of transferring or appropriating the chose in action to the assignee for a valuable consideration are sufficient ...
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... debt : McHugh v . O'Connor , 91 Ala . 243. Title will not vest in the donee by the execution of a writing purporting to convey the sum represented by a note : Gammon etc. Seminary v . Robbins , 128 Ind . 85 ; nor by the indorsement on a ...
... debt : McHugh v . O'Connor , 91 Ala . 243. Title will not vest in the donee by the execution of a writing purporting to convey the sum represented by a note : Gammon etc. Seminary v . Robbins , 128 Ind . 85 ; nor by the indorsement on a ...
Page 85
... debts immediately or so soon thereafter as to show that he reasonably had in contemplation the contracting of such debts at the time the transfer was made . A VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCE IS FRAUDULENT AND VOID AS AGAINST SUB- SIQUENT CREDITORS ...
... debts immediately or so soon thereafter as to show that he reasonably had in contemplation the contracting of such debts at the time the transfer was made . A VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCE IS FRAUDULENT AND VOID AS AGAINST SUB- SIQUENT CREDITORS ...
Page 86
... debts then existing by creating others , the holders of these later debts become subrogated to the rights of the creditors existing when the conveyance was made , and are therefore entitled to assail the voluntary conveyance as a fraud ...
... debts then existing by creating others , the holders of these later debts become subrogated to the rights of the creditors existing when the conveyance was made , and are therefore entitled to assail the voluntary conveyance as a fraud ...
Page 87
... debts he owed when the provision was made : Bertrand v . Elder , 23 Ark . 494 . The law requires every man to be just before he is gener- ous . If he makes a voluntary conveyance while he is in debt , it presumes that it is fraudulent ...
... debts he owed when the provision was made : Bertrand v . Elder , 23 Ark . 494 . The law requires every man to be just before he is gener- ous . If he makes a voluntary conveyance while he is in debt , it presumes that it is fraudulent ...
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Page 185 - The court said there must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is .shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 277 - ... upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment, order, or other proceeding, taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect...
Page 342 - ... the loss shall not become payable until sixty days after the notice, ascertainment, estimate, and satisfactory proof of the loss herein required have been received by this company, including an award by appraisers when appraisal has been required.
Page 595 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present...
Page 598 - ... to have and to hold to the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, to the sole and only proper use, benefit, and behoof of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever.
Page 274 - The homestead is subject to execution or forced sale in satisfaction of judgments obtained: 1. Before the declaration of homestead was filed for record, and which constitute liens upon the premises.
Page 278 - ... his attorney, stating that to the best of his knowledge and belief the items are correct and that the disbursements have been necessarily incurred in the action or proceeding.
Page 45 - Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law ; and when that is discerned, it is the duty of the court to follow it.
Page 166 - An easement is a privilege without profit, which the owner of one tenement has a right to enjoy in respect of that tenement, in or over the tenement of another person, by reason whereof the latter is obliged to suffer or refrain from doing something on his own tenement for the advantage of the former.
Page 542 - The primary cause may be the proximate cause of a disaster, though it may operate through successive instruments, as an article at the end of a chain may be moved by a force applied to the other end, that force being the proximate cause of the movement, or as in the oft-cited case of the squib thrown in the market place.