Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 53D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1891 - Law reports, digests, etc Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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&als acres action adm'r administrator aforesaid appear appellant appellee applied April Term bailment bill bond cause Circuit court claim Code commissioner concurred contract conveyed County court county of Alexandria county of Amelia court of equity coverture creditor creek death debts declared decree deed of trust defendants devise dollars Edwin Godwin effect emancipated endorsement entitled Epes equity evidence ex'or execution executor fact filed garnishee give Gratt heirs held hirer hires hundred husband injunction instruction intended interest intestate issue January Term John Judge judgment July Term jury land Leigh liable ment Munf opinion overruled parties payment person plaintiff in error plea possession Powell proceedings purchase Putney question record Redd's reversed Ruffner rule rule in Shelley's scire facias sheriff slaves sold statute suit supersedeas Tarr Taylor thereof Thweatt tion tract trial trover wife William witness Wootton words writ Young
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Page 663 - person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Page 703 - Queen and you upon your respective trials, [or, in a capital case, "upon your life and death "] ; if therefore you or any of you will challenge them or any of them you must challenge them as they come to the book to be sworn, and before they are sworn, and you shall be heard.
Page 241 - ... will in the presence of two witnesses present at the same time, who shall subscribe their names thereto as witnesses in the presence of the testator.
Page 190 - But we think the real answer to the objection is, that no wrong-doer can be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer to the action the bare possibility of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done.
Page 307 - After an election has been properly proposed, whoever has a majority of those who vote, the assembly being sufficient, is elected, although a majority of the entire assembly altogether abstains from voting; because their presence suffices to constitute the elective body, and if they neglect to vote it is their own fault...
Page 430 - When this court first established the separate estate, it violated the laws of property as between husband and wife ; but it was thought beneficial, and it prevailed. It being once settled that a wife might enjoy separate estate as a feme sole, the laws of property attached to this new estate ; and it was found, as part of such law, that the power of alienation belonged to the wife, and was destructive of the security intended for it. Equity again interfered, and by another violation of the laws...
Page 65 - That nothing herein contained shall be construed to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, or to affect the rights of individuals therein, otherwise than the same shall or may be transferred by such individuals to the United States.
Page 65 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is, forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon...
Page 143 - The rule simply is that where an estate of freehold is limited to a person, and the same instrument contains a limitation, either mediate or immediate, to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, the word 'heirs' is a word of limitation; ie, the ancestor takes the whole estate comprised in this term.
Page 662 - The only error assigned is that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment.