Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland. [1811-1832], Volume 1J. Neal, 1836 - Equity |
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according act of assembly admitted aforesaid alleged allowed amount answer appears applied appointed auditor Baltimore county bond Bryden cause caveat Chan Chancellor Chancellor.-The chancellor's salary claim commission common law complainant considered contract conveyance Court of Chancery court of equity creditors debt debtor deceased decree deed defendant directed Dorsey dower entitled equitable lien equity execution executor fact February fee simple feme covert fieri facias granted heirs Henderson hereby Heyland injunction interest intestate issued John John Henderson judges judgment judicial Land Office late legislature Lingan Maryland matter ment Mullikin Nathan Waters obtained paid parties passed payment Penn petition plaintiff plea prayed proceedings proceeds proof purchase money real estate received relief Samuel Chase sheriff shew shewn sold solicitor statute stay waste sufficient suit surety taken term thereof tion tract of land trustee warrant Whereupon whole William writ
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Page 495 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Page 617 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Page 618 - That the independency and uprightness of judges are essential to the impartial administration of justice, and a great security to the rights and liberties of the people...
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Page 685 - PS The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelvemonth between the...
Page 388 - Had wander'd from its dwelling, and her eyes They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth; she was become The queen of a fantastic realm; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things; And forms impalpable and unperceived Of others
Page 387 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 246 - ... shall be commenced and sued within the time and limitation herein-after expressed, and not after...
Page 387 - In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them ; but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.
Page 617 - That the Inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the Common Law of England, and the trial by Jury, according to the course of that law...