Transcript Appeals: The File of Opinions in Cases Argued Before the Court of Appeals of the State of New York During the January Term 1867 from Official Copies, Volumen7Transcript Association, 1868 |
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affirmed agreement alleged amount appeal assessment assignment Bank bill bill of attainder Canal Central R. R. Ch.J charge Charles Oakley claim commissioners complaint contract conveyance counsel Court of Equity creditors damages debt debtor deceased Defendant Defendant's delivery Donnery draft entitled evidence execution fact Hankerson Henry Van Schaick horses interest JOEL TIFFANY Judge judgment jury land lease liable lumber Medbury ment mortgage negligence nonsuit Oakley Opinion by DWIGHT Opinion by GROVER Opinion by HUNT Opinion by MASON Opinion by MILLER Opinion by WOODRUFF owner paid party payment person Pindar Plaintiff possession premises principle proved purchaser question Railroad recover referred refused Rensselaer county replevin Respondent road sheriff six notes Sixth Avenue Railroad Statement statute Statute of Frauds Street Supreme Court Term testator testify thereof Third Avenue Railroad tiff tion transaction trial usury valid verdict void warrant wife York
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Página 284 - I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Página 285 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Página 249 - A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the act is termed a bill of pains and penalties. Within the meaning of the Constitution, bills of attainder include bills of pains and penalties.
Página 253 - Shall there be a Convention to revise the Constitution, and amend the same?" shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature...
Página 206 - ... if the property has been delivered to the plaintiff, and the defendant claim a return thereof. judgment for the defendant may be for a return of the property or the value thereof, in case a return cannot be had, and damages for taking and withholding the same.
Página 14 - J. — This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff...
Página 83 - At the trial the plaintiff proved the assignment and rested. The defendant moved for a nonsuit on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to make out a case.
Página 77 - ... no suit at law or in equity shall in any case be maintainable by or against such assignee, or by or against any person claiming an adverse interest, touching the property and rights of property aforesaid, in any court whatsoever, unless the same shall be brought within two years from the time the cause of action accrued, for or against such assignee...
Página 5 - Unless the buyer shall accept and receive part of such goods, or the evidences, or some of them, of such things in action ; or, — 3. Unless the buyer shall at the time, pay some part of the purchase money.
Página 260 - In the exclusion which the statute adjudges, it imposes a punishment for some of the acts specified, which were not punishable at the time they were committed; and for other of the acts it adds a new punishment to that before prescribed, and it is thus brought within the further inhibition of the Constitution against the passage of an ex post facto law.