Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Court, And, on Appeal, in the Court of Errors and Appeals, of the State of New Jersey, 3. köideHough & Gillespy, Printers, 1868 |
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... objects for which they are a body corporate . All beyond this is by mere implication . An act incorporating a company for the purpose of constructing a railroad from L. to M. , with no further grant of franchises , would not confer the ...
... objects for which they are a body corporate . All beyond this is by mere implication . An act incorporating a company for the purpose of constructing a railroad from L. to M. , with no further grant of franchises , would not confer the ...
Page 47
... object in taking said deed was , to satisfy the said sums so due to him , and not to defraud , hinder , or delay the complainant or any other creditors , or to hold the property in trust for said Gilliam , or in any way for his benefit ...
... object in taking said deed was , to satisfy the said sums so due to him , and not to defraud , hinder , or delay the complainant or any other creditors , or to hold the property in trust for said Gilliam , or in any way for his benefit ...
Page 50
... object in this whole business was to save himself from loss ; for if he had designed to defraud the creditors , he would have at once refused so to do . It was Moore v . Zabriskie . a gratuitous offer , and 50 CASES IN CHANCERY .
... object in this whole business was to save himself from loss ; for if he had designed to defraud the creditors , he would have at once refused so to do . It was Moore v . Zabriskie . a gratuitous offer , and 50 CASES IN CHANCERY .
Page 55
... object is to regulate the management and enjoyment of pro- perty by the owners , or a majority of them , at their common expense , and they are a proper and constitutional exercise of legislative power . The complainant filed his bill ...
... object is to regulate the management and enjoyment of pro- perty by the owners , or a majority of them , at their common expense , and they are a proper and constitutional exercise of legislative power . The complainant filed his bill ...
Page 61
... object , is to incorporate the company , not to drain the salt marsh . The commissioners , then , are not only at liberty to fix the annual compensation of the company above the amount of ex- penses incurred by them as profits , but the ...
... object , is to incorporate the company , not to drain the salt marsh . The commissioners , then , are not only at liberty to fix the annual compensation of the company above the amount of ex- penses incurred by them as profits , but the ...
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acre agreed agreement alleged amount answer assignment authority benefit bill Boisaubin Camden Canal canceled Chancellor charge charter claim Clark's Executors complainant consideration construction contract convey conveyance corporation Court of Chancery court of equity covenant creditors debt decree deed defendant Delaware Bay denied easement encumbrances entitled evidence executors fact farm filed fraud grant Green's C. R. Hackensack Halsted heirs held hundred dollars husband infant injunction intended interest Isaac Griffin Johnson Keyport lands lease legislature Marlatt marriage matter ment Morris Canal Morristown mortgage Oberle Orphans Court paid parties partnership payment Pergeaux plainant premises proof purchase purpose question Railroad Company Raritan Raritan bay received relief road rule settled share Smith sold Spencer woods statute statute of frauds street suit Terhune testator thousand dollars tion tract trust Tyng void Voorhees wharf wife
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Page 502 - Court shall inspect the will and see whether it appears to be signed by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 185 - The charter of every corporation that shall hereafter be granted by the Legislature, shall be subject to alteration, suspension, and repeal, in the discretion of the Legislature.
Page 503 - ... declared to be his last 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 64 - Individuals or private corporations shall not be authorized to take private property for public use, without just compensation first made to the owners.
Page 547 - That it shall not be lawful, at any time during the said railroad charter, to construct any other railroad or railroads in this State, without the consent of the said companies, which shall be intended or used for the transportation of passengers or merchandise between the cities of New York and Philadelphia, or to compete in business with the railroad authorized by the act to which this supplement is relative, etc.
Page 523 - LC), and applying that principle to the facts of the present case, it seems to me that...
Page 65 - We know of no case, in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A to B, without his consent, has ever been held a constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted as inconsistent with just principles, by every judicial tribunal in which it has been attempted to be enforced.
Page 469 - ... a deed absolute on its face may be shown by parol to have been intended as a security.
Page 522 - if the public interest can be, in any way, promoted by the taking of private property, it must rest in the wisdom of the legislature to determine whether the benefit to the public will be of sufficient importance to render it expedient ... to exercise the right of eminent domain, and to authorize an interference with the private rights of individuals for that purpose...
Page 68 - ... some other reason, can be better managed and improved by some joint operation, such as the power of regulating the building of party walls ; making and maintaining partition fences and ditches; constructing ditches and sewers for the draining of uplands or marshes, which can more advantageously be drained by a common sewer or ditch.