Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to a Statute Law of the State, 65. köide |
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... mortgage sought to be foreclosed . The description of the premises is in these words : " Being fifty acres of land in the southeasterly corner of lot number six in the tenth range , except one acre heretofore conveyed by Silas Black to ...
... mortgage sought to be foreclosed . The description of the premises is in these words : " Being fifty acres of land in the southeasterly corner of lot number six in the tenth range , except one acre heretofore conveyed by Silas Black to ...
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... mortgage from William Buck , in which they were equally interested . The defendant took a quit claim from Buck of his right of redemption in one undivided half of the ninety acres ; and while the plaintiff's interest in the other undi ...
... mortgage from William Buck , in which they were equally interested . The defendant took a quit claim from Buck of his right of redemption in one undivided half of the ninety acres ; and while the plaintiff's interest in the other undi ...
Page 144
... mortgage against Buck . By it they are entitled to an undivided half of the ninety acres . It is con- tended that the partition between defendant and Buck has concluded the petitioners , and severed and set out the peti- tioners ' right ...
... mortgage against Buck . By it they are entitled to an undivided half of the ninety acres . It is con- tended that the partition between defendant and Buck has concluded the petitioners , and severed and set out the peti- tioners ' right ...
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... mortgage . Heard at the December term , Caledonia county , 1891 , upon a master's report and exceptions of both parties thereto . START , chancellor , overruled the exceptions of both parties , and decreed for the orator according to ...
... mortgage . Heard at the December term , Caledonia county , 1891 , upon a master's report and exceptions of both parties thereto . START , chancellor , overruled the exceptions of both parties , and decreed for the orator according to ...
Page 162
... mortgage to secure the payment of the defendant's promissory notes amounting to $ 2,500 . June 22 , 1885 , these notes and the mortgage were given up , and a bottom mortgage taken to the Passumpsic Savings Bank to secure the payment of ...
... mortgage to secure the payment of the defendant's promissory notes amounting to $ 2,500 . June 22 , 1885 , these notes and the mortgage were given up , and a bottom mortgage taken to the Passumpsic Savings Bank to secure the payment of ...
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Page 216 - But it is generally held, that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Page 425 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
Page 23 - Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
Page 54 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action.
Page 16 - The words, That the jury did acquit, against the direction of the court, in matter of law, literally taken, and de piano, are insignificant and not intelligible, for no issue can be joined of matter in law, no jury can be charged with the trial of matter in law barely, no evidence ever was, or can be given to a jury of what is law, or not ; nor no such...
Page 424 - That when any issue in fact, proper for the cognizance of a jury is joined in a court of law, the parties have a right to trial by jury, which ought to be held sacred.
Page 54 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Page 258 - Kirkpatrick, 2 -Minn. 210 (Gil. 171), where the complaint alleged that "the defendants are justly indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of, etc., on account of goods, wares, and merchandise sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant at the special instance and request...
Page 22 - ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
Page 583 - ... the said defendant, by leave of the court here for this purpose first had and obtained, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, says that the said plaintiff ought not to have or maintain his aforesaid action thereof against...