Massachusetts Reports, Volum 102H.O. Houghton and Company, 1899 |
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action agreement alleged exceptions Allen amount appear applied aqueduct Ashley School assessment assigns bill Boston cause claim commissioners common carriers Commonwealth contended contract conveyance conveyed Coombs courts of equity covenant creditors Cush damages debt decree deed defect defendant defendant's delivered dividend entitled equity evidence tending Exceptions overruled execution executors fact fendant grant grantor Gray held highway HORACE GRAY indenture injury insolvency instructed the jury judge judgment land lease liable liquors London Northern Railroad machine ment mill mortgage notice Ogdensburg owner paid parties payment person premises probate court promissory note prove purchased purpose question Railroad Company reasonable received recover road rule shares Shelburne Falls sold Springfield statute of frauds Stockbridge suit superior court tenant tending to show testator testified thereof Thomas Wall tiff tion town trial trustees valid verdict warrant Worcester writ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 46 - In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has heretofore been otherways used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by jury; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless, in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners' wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it.
Pàgina 98 - ... unto the said parties of the second part, and to their heirs and assigns forever (description of property).
Pàgina 470 - ... to await the determination of the court in bankruptcy on the question of the discharge, provided there be no unreasonable delay on the part of the bankrupt. in endeavoring to obtain his discharge...
Pàgina 7 - Commonwealth, that all limitations, by way of executory devise, which may not take effect within the term of a life or lives in being at the death of the testator...
Pàgina 526 - ... proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
Pàgina 203 - ... and shall have full equity jurisdiction, according to the usage and practice of courts of equity, in all other cases, where there is not a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law.
Pàgina 298 - Upon these facts the judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and reported the case for the determination of this court, such order to be made as this court might direct.
Pàgina 526 - The party producing a witness is not allowed to impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but he may contradict him by other evidence, and may also show that he has made at other times statements inconsistent with his present testimony...
Pàgina 495 - The distinction is well established between the responsibilities of towns and cities for acts done in their public capacity in the discharge of duties imposed upon them by the legislature for the. public benefit, and for acts done in what may be called their private character...
Pàgina 470 - And no creditor whose debt is provable under this act shall be allowed to prosecute to final judgment any suit at law or in equity therefoi against the bankrupt, until the question of the debtor's discharge shall have been determined.