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not applicable |
S. Cheever |
Title Page, Volume 1 Signature page |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
This is a common thing. In England, it must be done by fine; in this country, an ordinary mode of conveyance will answer. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Wife's mortgaging her lands to aid husband |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
In all well regulated governments, some forms are adopted to give efficiency to this contract. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of marriage |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
The object of construing the law is to ascertain the intention of the law maker. |
Municipal law, Volume 1 Construction of statutes |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Merely to plead a statute, nothing more is necessary than to show that the facts come within it. |
Municipal law, Volume 1 Of pleadings statutes |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
The motive for a new trial in England is sustained by granting a rule to show cause suspends the judgment. |
New trials, Voluume 2 New trials |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
The principles regarding writs of error laid down in the Eng books must be everywhere essentially the same. But the mode of carrying them to execution is different in different states. |
Volume 2 Writs of error, Writs of error |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
A public officer may be prosecuted by a person in a private capacity and his private right; for the public is the party injured. |
Municipal law, Volume 1 Who may prosecute upon penal statutes |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
A Bill of exception is a statement of facts and of some interlocutory judgment forwarded before these annexed to the record for the purpose of laying a foundation of a writ of error. |
Bills of exception, Volume 2 Bills of exceptions |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Law in its more general and extensive signification is a rule of action or conduct. Municipal Law is a rule of civil society prescribed by the supreme power of the State commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. |
Municipal law, Volume 1 Municipal law |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Executors & administrators are the representatives of deceased persons as to their personal estates & the duties which affect them. |
Executor & Administrators, Volume 1 Executors & administrators |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
The right which the husband acquires by marriage over the personal property of the wife. Personal property is of three kinds. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Baron & feme |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
First, a custom must be immemorial. Second, continued; third, acquiesced in; fourth, reasonable, or not unreasonable. |
Municipal law, Volume 1 What constitutes a good custom |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
These are personal estates in lands, or rather chattel interests in lands, which are estates for years. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of the wife's chattels real |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
Slander consists in maliciously defaming a person. |
Private wrongs, Volume 1 Private wrongs: action of slander |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
As to the nature of slander by writing 1st whatever words would be actionable if spoken are clearly so when written. |
Private wrongs, Volume 1 Private wrongs: slander by writing |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
This action originally lay only in cases where one found the &c of another and refused to deliver them on demand, but converted them. |
Private wrongs, Volume 1 Private wrongs: action of Trover |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
She can acquire nothing during coverture but what will accrue to her husband. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Interest which the wife acquires in husband's property |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
Every unlawful restraint of one's liberty or rather, every violation of one's right of locomotion is false imprisonment e.g. illegal confinement in a private house, street, etc. |
Private wrongs, Volume 1 Private wrongs: action of trespass vi et armis |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
Action of trespass of injuries to personal property. Trespass in its most extensive signification at Com law is any transgression of Law short of treason, felony and misprision of these. |
Public wrongs, Volume 1 Private wrongs: action of trespass of injuries |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
In England, replevin is a redelivery to the owner by legal process of cattle or goods distrained for any cause or security given to try the right and to redeliver if judgment be vs. him. |
Replevin, Volume 1 Private wrongs: action of replevin |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
Action of trespass on the case arising ex delicto for injuries to the person and personal property. This action lies for wrongs not accompanied with force, as acts, tho' not forcible, are injurious and culpable neglects and omissions. |
Trespass on the case, Volume 1 Trespass on the case |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
And also his right to damages for injuries done to the person of the wife during coverture. To real property, he has the same right as if she possessed it before marriage |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Husband's right of property accruing during coverture |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
This is a prerogative writ issuing generally from B.R. to prevent inferior courts from deciding cases out of the their jurisdiction. |
Prerogative writs, Volume 1 Writ of prohibition |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
This is a writ by which a person restrained of his liberty may be brot before some superior court for some special purpose. |
Habeas corpus, Volume 1 Writ of habeas corpus |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
not identified |
This writ issues where a man has good reason for not |
Audita querula, Volume 1 Writ of audita querula |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
I shall now notice debts due from the husband to the wife at the time of marriage, also such as become due after coverture. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Debts due from the husband to the wife |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
There is no question but she may in another's right independent of her husband. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of the wife's executing power of attorney |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Gould, James |
The second branch of municipal law is "Lex Scripta," by which is meant the statute law or acts of Parliament. |
Municipal law, Volume 1 Lex scripta |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
The next subject I shall consider is whether the wife has a power to devise. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Wife's power to devise her property |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
If it be of mere personal property, the will must be merely nugatory, since there is nothing on which it can operate. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Does marriage revoke the will of a feme sole |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
Minors male are at age of consent in marriage at 14 years, and females at 12. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of marriage contracts by minors |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
These are frequently made on an intended wife and her issue and are in reality voluntary gifts. |
Baron & feme, Volume 1 Of marriage settlements |
1812-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
not identified |
This is a prerogative writ issuing in Eng from B.R. and assures in some degree in its effect to the specific relief afforded in Chancery. |
Prerogative writs, Volume 1 Writ of mandamus |
1812-06-01 |
Gould, James |
A servant is one who is subject to the personal authority of another; a master is one who uses that authority. |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Master & servant |
1812-06-01 |
Gould, James |
With regard to slavery, it has been doubted by many whether it has ever been legalized in Connecticut. I have not hesitation to say that it has been legalized in Connecticut by the laws |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Slavery |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
Apprentices are the second class of servants, denominated so from the French word apprendre, to learn, because they are usually bound for the purpose of being instructed. |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Apprentices |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
Servants of the third class are menial or domestic servants, and as to these, there is hardly any particular rule peculiar to them. |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Menial servants |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
Servants of the fifth class are denominated agents, such are brokers, factors, attorneys &c. |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Agents |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
This class is unknown to the common law, but a law or statute providing that a debtor committed on execution, having no estate to satisfy the debt, may be assigned |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Debtors in service |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
And under this division, the first inquiries will be, in what cases the master is bound by, and in what he can take the advantage of his servant's acts. |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Rules applying to master & servant |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
We have in Connecticut a statute that introduces a new rule on this subject, by which, if anyone under the government of a master is authorized to contract for himself, the master |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 Servants' contracts |
1812-06-02 to 1812-06-21 |
Gould, James |
The general rule is, he is liable to his master for all willful wrongs, for all neglect of duty by which the master is injured. |
Master & Servant, Volume 1 How far the servant is liable |
1812-06-22 |
Gould, James |
An infant or minor by the Common Law of England is any one who is under the age of 21 years. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Parent & child guardian & ward |
1812-06-23 |
Gould, James |
Miscellaneous particulars. In England the age for choosing guardians is 14 both in males and females. But in Connecticut by statute it is 14 in males and 12 in females. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Age for choosing guardians |
1812-06-24 |
Gould, James |
We have a statute in Connecticut that no person under a parent, guardian or master shall have right to contract or to bind himself without the consent of the parents &c. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Guardian consent for contract |
1812-06-25 |
Gould, James |
An infant is not bound by a contract to pay for repairing his building for tho' these repairs are necessary they do not come within the legal description of necessaries. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Contracts of infants |
1812-06-26 |
Gould, James |
It is generally said in our books that a penal bond given by an infant is absolutely void on the ground that there is no apparent benefit or semblance of benefit arising to an infant in an instrument which might subject him to a penalty. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Penal bonds given by infants |
1812-06-27 |
Gould, James |
There is a distinction between the time and manner in which an infant may avoid a voidable contract. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Voidable contracts of infants |
1812-06-29 |
Gould, James |
I have already treated of infants rights & duties and here I will treat of the manner of exercising those rights and performing those duties. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Manner of suing infants |
1812-06-30 |
Gould, James |
General rule. An infant defendant must always appear by guardian. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 How infants may be sued |
1812-07-01 |
Gould, James |
Under this distinction, it will be necessary to inquire or consider who are legitimate and who are not legitimate children. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Rights & duties of parents & child |
1812-07-02 |
Gould, James |
The rights of an illegitimate are such only as he can acquire for he can derive nothing by descent or succession. He is called in the law filius nullius. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Rights & duties of illegitimates |
1812-07-03 |
Gould, James |
The rights and duties of Parents & Legitimate children reciprocally. The duties of parents towards legitimate children consist in three particulars, Maintenance, Protection and Education. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Reciprocal rights of parents & child |
1812-07-06 |
Gould, James |
Having gone through the first duty, viz. Maintenance, I will now proceed to the second, viz. Protection. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Protection |
1812-07-08 |
Gould, James |
This is an action brought by the father for the loss of service, and the daughter can therefore have no interest in the suit to prevent her from being a witness. |
Parent & child, Volume 1 Loss of service |
1812-07-09 |
Gould, James |
The third species of guardian at law is called Guardianship in socage. |
Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Guardian in socage |
1812-07-10 |
Gould, James |
I have now gone through the different kinds of guardians and I would remark that there is a vast deal of confusion in the books. |
Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Different kinds of guardians |
1812-07-11 |
Gould, James |
The only remaining division of this title relates to the settlement of infants & first a settlement may be required by birth. |
Guardian & Ward, Volume 1 Settlement of infants |
1812-07-13 |
Gould, James |
In the first place as to the nature of the office and the manner of appointing to it. The word "sheriff" in its original sense denotes the keeper of a county or shire, derived from two Saxon words, Shire and reeve or governor. |
Sheriff & Gaoler, Volume 1 Sheriff & gaoler |
1812-07-14 |
Gould, James |
In England, by common law, the sheriff is a judicial as well as executive and ministerial, hence it is that he holds courts and does many other things. |
Sheriff & Gaoler, Volume 1 Authority & duty of sheriffs & gaoler |
1812-07-15 |
Gould, James |
An escape is where a person under lawful arrest or restraint of his liberty either violently breaks or secretly evades the restraint and goes at large |
Sheriff & Gaoler, Volume 1 Escapes |
1812-07-16 |
Gould, James |
If a sheriff or other officer make a false return, he is liable in an action of trespass on the case to the party aggrieved by the falsity. |
Sheriff & Gaoler, Volume 1 False returns |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
There are modes of denying allegations, 1st by technical traverse. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 18 Pleas: Technical traverse |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
It is a general rule "that there cannot be a traverse upon a traverse." |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 19 Pleas: Traverse |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
In general, a protestation does not avail if the issue is found against him. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 20 Pleas: Protestation |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
There has been much speculation about the proper office of inducement, a nd about traversing an inducement. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 21 Pleas: [need word] |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
This is a fault in pleading; and it is not true, tho' it is sometimes said, not to be a fault in dilatory pleas. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 22 Pleas: Duplicity |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
It is a general rule of common law that where a party declares on or pleads ordeal, he must make "profert" of it. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 23 Pleas: Profert & Oyer |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
This is a dereliction or abandonment of a former defence or claim for one that is distinct from it. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 24 Pleas: Departure in pleadings |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
If the declaration, the plea, or any pleading on either side want necessary form, or omits the circumstances of time, place, &c it is voided by the adverse party's pleading over instead of demurring. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 3 Pleas: Defects |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
In every plea, two things are necessary. 1st that the matter be sufficient. 2 that it be expressing writing in the forms of Law. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 2 Pleas: General rules |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
In civil cases judgment on demurrer, unless to dilatory pleas, is peremptory. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 25 Pleas: Effects of a demurrer |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
This demurring to evidence is a pleading of necessity and is yet rational. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 26 Pleas: Of Demurrer to evidence |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
To arrest judgment is to stop or stay it, i.e., to prevent its being rendered. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 27 Pleas: Arrest of judgment & repleader |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
If the grant of an [word] is [word] without.... to have been done by deed, the verdict cures this. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 28 Pleas: Grant of [word] |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Pleading begins "de novo" at that stage when the first deviation from the rule of pleading occurred. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 29 Pleas: Repleader awarded |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
It has been mentioned in England the causes of arresting judgment are intrinsic. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 30 Pleas: Arrest of judgment |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
not identified |
Supplementary notes to Pleas and Pleadings. Note A. Pleas to the disability are often called pleas in abatement. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 Pleas: Supplementary notes |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
1st joinder of the Plaintiffs. It is a general rule that when two or more persons are jointly interested in one right, they may and ought to join in declaration for violation of that right. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 4 Pleas: Joinder of parties |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Reeve, Tapping |
An infinite number of question which are new are constantly arising in the law of evidence. They cannot all be detailed in a general treatise of the subject. |
Evidence, Volume 2 Evidence |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
We will now consider what courses of action can not be joined. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 5 Pleas: Actions not joined |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
It was observed in the last lecture that actions may be consolidated by Court and also costs must be paid up to the time of consolidation. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 6 Pleas: Actions consolidated |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Dilatory pleas of the second kind are pleas to the disability of the Plaintiff i.e. which question his right or capacity to maintain the motion. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 7 Pleas: Dilatory pleas |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
The third kind of dilatory pleas are Pleas in abatement. The word "Abatement" in law denotes prostration or demolition as in case of nuisance or misnomer in a writ. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 8 Pleas: In abatement |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Of the nature of crimes. That branch of the Municipal Law which treats of crimes is sometime called criminal law, sometimes Pleas of the Crown and sometimes Public Wrongs. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Public wrongs |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
It is not always the case that an individual can have his action to redress the civil injury occasioned by a public offence; for it is regularly true at Com law that where the offence amounts to felony, that the civil injury is merged therein. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Doctrine of Merger |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
The right of punishing crimes is found in the laws of nature. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Of the right of Punishment |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
It is regularly true that all persons in society are liable to be punished for disobedience to the law except such as are expressly exempted therefrom. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Persons incapable of committing crimes |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
For the commission of crimes persons may be guilty in different degrees, which causes the division of offenders into principles and accessories. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Principals and Accessories |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Felony is any offence which at Common Law occasions a forfeiture of goods or lands or of both. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Felony |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Clergyable felonies are those in which the benefit of clergy is allowed the offender. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Benefit of clergy |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Homicide is the killing of any human creature. Whoever kills another commits homicide. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Homicide |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
A second cause of abatement is coverture, i.e. that the Defendant is a married woman. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 9 Pleas: Cause of abatement |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Felonious homicide is the killing of any human creature without justification or excuse and it may be committed either by killing one's self or another person. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Felonious homicide |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Manslaughter is defined to be unlawful killing of another without malice, and may be either intentional or unintentional, voluntary or involuntary. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Manslaughter |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Murder is a felonious homicide of the highest and most atrocious kind. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Murder |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
In certain cases the killing without malice aforethought from its particular atrocity is called petit treason, but whatever be its aggravation, it is essentially the same as murder. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Petit treason |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Arson is at Com Law the willful and malicious burning of the house or out house of another. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Arson |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Burglary is the offence of breaking and entering into the mansion house of another in the night season with intent to commit felony. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Burglary |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Larceny, or what in common parlance is called theft, it of two kinds: simple and mixed. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Larceny |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Mixed larceny has all the properties of simple larceny, but is accompanied with the aggravation of taking the goods from one's house or person or from both. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Mixed larceny |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Forgery is at Com Law the fraudulent making or altering of a writing to the prejudice of another's right. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Forgery |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Perjury is the offence of swearing wilfully, absolutely & falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question under an oath lawfully administered in some judicial matter. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Perjury |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Another cause of abatement is the misjoinder or non-joinder of the parties; in either case they may plead in abatement. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 10 Pleas: Non or misjoinder |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
When any one is arrested on the charge of a crime and brought before a Magistrate who had cognizance of the offence only as a court of enquiry, it is a duty to enquire into the facts charged, and to determine whether the prisoner ought to be held to trial. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Bail in criminal cases |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
In Eng no costs are allowed on either side when the Crown prosecutes, except in certain statute specific cases. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Costs in criminal cases |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
The highest court of original criminal as well as civil jurisdiction in Connecticut is the Superior Court. |
Public wrongs, Volume 2 Criminal courts in Connecticut |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Positing of another suit is another cause of abatement, i.e. another suit for the same thing between the same parties. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 11 Pleas: Positing |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Pleas in abatement regularly begin and conclude to the writ or as the case may be to the declaration. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 12 Pleas: Writ |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Pleas to the action or pleas in bar. A plea in bar is one which |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 13 Pleas: Pleas to the action |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Pleadings are defined to be the mutual altercations between the Plaintiff and Defendant in a suit, put into legal form, and set down in writing. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 1 Pleas & pleadings |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
Every issue in fact regularly contains the words Modo et Forma i.e., in manner and form. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 14 Pleas: Modo et forma |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
But the rule as to actions of Assumpsit is generally true. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 15 Pleas: Rule in actions of assumpsit |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
There is another kind of plea, viz., one stating special facts tending to prove the general issue and concluding with the general issue in point of form. |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 16 Pleas: Special facts |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 |
Gould, James |
The office of a novel assignment is to take out of the plea in bar something to which plea in bar or other defence made |
Pleas & pleadings, Volume 2 No. 17 Pleas: Novel assignment |
1813-05-03 |
Reeve, Tapping |
The general powers of the court of chancery are incapable of a definition. They must be learned by considering the cases and subject about which they are conversant. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 1 Powers of Chancery |
1813-05-04 |
Reeve, Tapping |
I shall observe to you as I proceed all the cases where Courts of Chancery apply the principles of Law, where the Courts of Law have refused and there are many principles to be learned. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 2 Powers of chancery |
1813-05-05 |
Reeve, Tapping |
I have observed that it was a general rule that Chancery did not interfere in personal contracts where there was an adequate remedy at Law. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 3 Powers of chancery |
1813-05-06 |
Reeve, Tapping |
I have already observed that Chancery will deny a specific performance of a contract where they would not rescind it. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 4 Powers of chancery |
1813-05-07 |
Reeve, Tapping |
Courts of chancery have also assumed the power of relieving usurious contracts. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 5 Powers of chancery |
1813-05-08 |
Reeve, Tapping |
Chancery also exercise the power of relieving [word] penalties. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 6 Powers of chancery |
1813-05-10 |
Reeve, Tapping |
To continue the subject of marshaling assets. The heir is bound when assets are enumerated to pay no more than just the amount taken out |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 7 Powers of chancery |
[1813-05-11] |
Reeve, Tapping |
Of allowing a wife a separate maintenance or separate property from the husband. |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 8 Powers of chancery |
[1813-05-12] |
Reeve, Tapping |
From J. Reeve's notes direct. In England, any bond creditor is considered as having a lien on land of which the debtor died siesed, but if the debtor in his lifetime |
Chancery, Volume 2 No. 9 Powers of chancery |