Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North-Carolina, Volume 3J. Gales and Son, 1834 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... jury , un- der the charge of his Honor Judge MANGUM , found , " that the defendant did claim title to , and did hold and " secrete the property of Joseph Wier , and held and used " it to avoid or delay the payment of the just debts of ...
... jury , un- der the charge of his Honor Judge MANGUM , found , " that the defendant did claim title to , and did hold and " secrete the property of Joseph Wier , and held and used " it to avoid or delay the payment of the just debts of ...
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... jury the plat made by the witness in the suit with Bryan Blount . This testimony was objected to by the defendant , and rejected by the presiding judge . In addressing the jury upon the question of boundary , the defendant's counsel ...
... jury the plat made by the witness in the suit with Bryan Blount . This testimony was objected to by the defendant , and rejected by the presiding judge . In addressing the jury upon the question of boundary , the defendant's counsel ...
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... jury respecting the deed of Boatwell ; neither was his Honor requested to instruct them upon any particular point ... jury , on the plat then be- nother between fore them , and made in this cause . The only purpose , different parties ...
... jury respecting the deed of Boatwell ; neither was his Honor requested to instruct them upon any particular point ... jury , on the plat then be- nother between fore them , and made in this cause . The only purpose , different parties ...
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... jury , he cannot complain that the judge did not , of his own accord , do it . The party must move the court , before he can impute error , in a case of this sort . The counsel did reply , and pro- perly to the argument . The judge gave ...
... jury , he cannot complain that the judge did not , of his own accord , do it . The party must move the court , before he can impute error , in a case of this sort . The counsel did reply , and pro- perly to the argument . The judge gave ...
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... jury , that although by law the defendant was bound to pay Crissman interest upon the money he had collected , and failed to pay over , at the rate of 12 per cent per annum , yet that the law which imposed so high a rate of interest ...
... jury , that although by law the defendant was bound to pay Crissman interest upon the money he had collected , and failed to pay over , at the rate of 12 per cent per annum , yet that the law which imposed so high a rate of interest ...
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Page 257 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Page 156 - ... the same shall be taken as to the creditors and purchasers of the persons aforesaid, so remaining in possession, to be fraudulent within this act, and that the absolute property is with the possession, unless such loan, reservation, or limitation of use or property, were declared by will or by deed, in writing proved, and recorded as aforesaid.
Page 156 - Every gift, grant or conveyance of lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels, or of any rent, common or profit out of the same, by writing or otherwise, and every bond, suit, judgment or execution, had or made, and contrived of malice, fraud, covin, collusion or guile, to the intent or purpose to delay, hinder or defraud creditors of their just and lawful actions...
Page 464 - Law, 553, it is defined to be, "the wrongful or fraudulent taking and carrying away, by any person, of the mere personal goods of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his (the taker's) own use, and make them his own property, without the consent of the owner.
Page 156 - ... if a conveyance be of goods and chattels and be not on consideration deemed valuable in law, it shall be taken to be fraudulent within this act: unless the same be by will duly proved and recorded; or by deed in writing, acknowledged or proved...
Page 334 - It is the well established law in this State. And if the propriety of the rule was now res Integra perhaps the necessity of the case arising from the situation of our country, and the want of self-evident termini of our lands, would require its adoption. For although it sometimes leads to falsehood, it more often tends to the establishment of truth. From necessity we have in this instance sacrified the principles upon which the rules of evidence are founded.
Page 380 - land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows.
Page 156 - Where any loan of goods and chattels shall be pretended to have been made to any person with whom, or those claiming under him, possession shall have remained by the space of three years, without . demand made and pursued by due course of law on the part of the pretended lender...
Page 156 - ... law, on the part of the pretended lender ; or where any reservation or limitation shall be pretended to have been made, of a use or property, by way of condition, reversion, remainder, or otherwise, in goods and chattels, the possession whereof shall have remained in another as aforesaid ; the same shall be taken as to the creditors...
Page 156 - ... utterly void, frustrate, and of none Effect ; any Pretence, Colour, feigned Consideration, expressing of Use, or any other Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding.