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, 28. köide |
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The plaintiff's account was for labor and expenditures in building a school house
for the defendants , in reference to which ... In April , 1851 , the defendants voted ,
“ to build a school house the present year , ” “ to raise one hundred cents on the ...
The plaintiff's account was for labor and expenditures in building a school house
for the defendants , in reference to which ... In April , 1851 , the defendants voted ,
“ to build a school house the present year , ” “ to raise one hundred cents on the ...
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The direction of Richardson to build a good house at any rate , and that the
district would pay what it was worth ... Brigham having declined to act at all in the
capacity of building committee , Richardson had authority to proceed alone and
build ...
The direction of Richardson to build a good house at any rate , and that the
district would pay what it was worth ... Brigham having declined to act at all in the
capacity of building committee , Richardson had authority to proceed alone and
build ...
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But the house was not , in fact , built under any special contract with Richardson ;
he told the plaintiff to go on and build a ... and when finished , the district voted to
accept it , and to pay the plaintiff one hundred and five dollars for building the ...
But the house was not , in fact , built under any special contract with Richardson ;
he told the plaintiff to go on and build a ... and when finished , the district voted to
accept it , and to pay the plaintiff one hundred and five dollars for building the ...
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In 1840 the defendant sold out that portion of his farm upon which he lived ,
erected a house , barn , and out - buildings upon the land which he had deeded
to the plaintiff , and commenced living thereon . The plaintiff continued to labor for
the ...
In 1840 the defendant sold out that portion of his farm upon which he lived ,
erected a house , barn , and out - buildings upon the land which he had deeded
to the plaintiff , and commenced living thereon . The plaintiff continued to labor for
the ...
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If property is attached and removed to the building of a third person by his
permission , but with an understanding that he is to assume no responsibility as
to its custody or safe keeping , the attaching officer is to be regarded as the
person ...
If property is attached and removed to the building of a third person by his
permission , but with an understanding that he is to assume no responsibility as
to its custody or safe keeping , the attaching officer is to be regarded as the
person ...
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Page 191 - This opinion does not deprive the states of any resources which they originally possessed. It does not extend to a tax paid by the real property of the bank, in common with the other real property within the state, nor to a tax imposed on the interest which the citizens of Maryland may hold in this institution, in common with other property of the same description throughout the state.
Page 82 - ... all, and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of action, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings...
Page 62 - ... that from the mere relation of master and servant no contract, and therefore no duty, can be implied on the part of the master to cause the servant to be safely and securely carried, or to make the master liable for damage to the servant, arising from any vice or imperfection, unknown to the master, in the carriage, or in the mode of loading and conducting it.
Page 325 - Had you called the porter and he had said that, although he had no recollection of the letter in question, he invariably carried to the post office all the letters found upon the table, this might have done...
Page 591 - ... where the proceedings are not according to the course of the common law, nor inrolled , such as the county-court, courts of hundreds, court-baron, &c.
Page 185 - CP 612, is in point in a case of this kind, viz., that he "could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence; that it was the same thing with the addition of a vituperative epithet.
Page 265 - In consideration whereof the said party of the second part covenants and agrees to and with the said party of the first part to...
Page 363 - ... the agreement is one which by the statute of frauds is required to be in writing.
Page 54 - ... proprietor of the land has a right to the advantage of the stream flowing in its natural course over his land, to use the same as he pleases, for any purposes of his own, not inconsistent with a similar right in the proprietors of the land above or below; so that, neither can any proprietor above diminish the quantity or injure the quality of the water which would otherwise naturally descend, nor can any proprietor below throw back the water without the license or the grant of the proprietor...
Page 502 - In such a case there is no room for any other appropriation than that which arises from the order in which the receipts and payments take place, and are carried into the account. Presumably it is the sum first paid in that is first drawn out. It is the first item on the debit side of the account that is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against each other.
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| Title | 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, 28. köide |
| Author | Vermont. Supreme Court |
| Contributors | G. B. Shaw, William Weston, William Slade, Peter T. Washburn, John F. Deane, Charles Langdon Williams |
| Published | 1857 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 juuli 2007 |
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