Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: With Select Cases Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District ... [1806-1810], Tom 11Smith & Maxwell, printers, 1808 |
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... principles were settled , we have felt ourselves at liberty to indulge in a more diffuse manner : particularly in the case of SMITH and WIFE v . CHAPMAN , ( which is more like a digest of the law relative to an important subject than a ...
... principles were settled , we have felt ourselves at liberty to indulge in a more diffuse manner : particularly in the case of SMITH and WIFE v . CHAPMAN , ( which is more like a digest of the law relative to an important subject than a ...
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... principle . No delay , they assured the court , was desired by the defendant ; but before an account was di- rected , with special instructions , it was necessary that the fact on which the parties were at issue , with respect to the ...
... principle . No delay , they assured the court , was desired by the defendant ; but before an account was di- rected , with special instructions , it was necessary that the fact on which the parties were at issue , with respect to the ...
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... principle sa- cred , that a man's private accounts could not , without his own consent , be submitted to the inspection of any per- son whatever , would never go further than to order that the books which were opened by Alexander as the ...
... principle sa- cred , that a man's private accounts could not , without his own consent , be submitted to the inspection of any per- son whatever , would never go further than to order that the books which were opened by Alexander as the ...
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... principle that , where it has jurisdiction in part , it will entertain it for the whole subject of contro- versy , since the parties are before it , will now do so : and , as it depends upon the title whether the complainant has ...
... principle that , where it has jurisdiction in part , it will entertain it for the whole subject of contro- versy , since the parties are before it , will now do so : and , as it depends upon the title whether the complainant has ...
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... principle that , where the appellant had already , for the sake of delay , taken every advantage allowed by the law , no farther procrastination should be permitted here , the rule ought therefore to be extended to cases of injunction ...
... principle that , where the appellant had already , for the sake of delay , taken every advantage allowed by the law , no farther procrastination should be permitted here , the rule ought therefore to be extended to cases of injunction ...
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Strona 295 - Every estate in lands, which shall be granted, conveyed or devised to one, although other words heretofore necessary to transfer an estate of inheritance be not added, shall be deemed a fee simple estate of inheritance, if a less estate be not limited by express words, or do not appear to have been granted, conveyed, or devised by construction or operation of law.
Strona 85 - ... whether the writing produced be the will of the testator or not which shall be tried by a jury, or if neither party require a jury, by the court.
Strona 299 - ... that, in the construction of a will, the intention of the testator, as expressed in it, and collected from the whole of it, must prevail, provided it can be carried into effect...
Strona 243 - Grew, all my lands [naming them particularly;] to hold the same, with their appurtenances. to him the said George Grew, for and during the term of his natural life...
Strona 277 - ... of a devise to A. for life, and after his decease to the unborn children of B., this would be a contingent remainder in such children; but under a devise to A.
Strona 141 - Rights, which was notoriously framed with a cautious eye to this subject, and was meant to embrace the case of free citizens, or aliens only ; and not by a side wind to overturn the rights of property, and give freedom to those very people whom we have been compelled from imperious circumstances to retain, generally, in the same state of bondage that they were in at the revolution, in which they had no concern, agency or interest.
Strona 173 - Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehaviour.
Strona i - Reasonable notice shall be given by the party in whose favor the deposition is to be taken to the opposite party of the time and place of taking the same.
Strona 26 - Va.) 24, it was held, that a district court has no power or jurisdiction to reverse, alter or- amend a judgment given at a former term of the said court, which had- been entered on the order book and signed by a judge in open court.