Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Late Supreme Court of the State of New York: Supplement to Hill and Denio, Volume 2; Volume 15 |
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agreement alleged amount answer appears applied assignment Belden benefit bill bond and mortgage cause cents cestui que trust chancery charged circumstances claim complainant complainant's considered contract costs court of chancery court of equity courts of law covenant creditors death debt debtor deceased decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer devise dividend dower Elizabeth Hay entitled equity executed executors feme covert filed fraud fund ground guardian ad litem hundred dollars husband injunction insolvent interest interpleader Isaacs Jackson Jacob Hays judgment lease legacy lien Lord Thurlow matter ment motion ne exeat notes objection paid Paige's C. R. partnership party payment personal estate Petitioner pier plainant plea pleading possession pounds sterling premises present principle purchase money purpose question real estate received rents respect share sold statute suit surety thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion trust VICE-CHANCELLOR widow wife
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Page 561 - ... except where such trust has been created by, or the fund so held in trust has proceeded from, some person other than the defendant...
Page 488 - The absolute ownership of personal property shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance and until the termination of not more than two lives in being at the date of the instrument containing such limitation or condition; or if such instrument be a will, for not more than two lives in being at the death of the testator.
Page 133 - State court for the removal of the suit into the next circuit court of the United States to be held in the district where the suit is pending...
Page 558 - ... shall be liable in equity to the claims of the creditors of such person in the same manner as other personal property which cannot be reached by an execution at law.
Page 488 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Page 552 - ES, provides that the absolute ownership of personal property shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever for a longer period than during the continuance...
Page 31 - ... decided, that although the legal estate in freehold property purchased by partners for the purposes of their trade will go in the ordinary course of descent, yet the equitable interest will be held to be part of the partnership stock, and distributable as personal estate.
Page 467 - Now, where the sum which is to be the security for the performance of an agreement to do several acts will, in cases of breaches of the agreement, be in some instances too large, and in others too small a compensation for the injury thereby occasioned, that sum is to be considered a penalty.
Page 100 - ... arrested upon suspicion by a private individual, such individual is excused if a felony was in fact committed, and there was reasonable ground to suspect the person arrested. But if no felony was committed by any one, and a private individual arrest without warrant, such arrest is illegal, though an officer would be justified if he acted upon information from another which he had reason to believe.
Page 169 - If he sues upon the former, he cannot have interest beyond the penalty; but the mortgage is to secure payment, not of the bond, but of the sum for which the bond was given, together with all interest that may grow due thereon. The same sum, therefore, is differently secured by different instruments: by a penalty, and by a specific lien.