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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... judgment is in Hall , he holds it evidently , in trust , for the benefit of the bank . In this state it has been held that a promise made to A. B. , Cashier of a particular bank , naming the bank , is , in law , a promise to the bank ...
... judgment is in Hall , he holds it evidently , in trust , for the benefit of the bank . In this state it has been held that a promise made to A. B. , Cashier of a particular bank , naming the bank , is , in law , a promise to the bank ...
Page 48
... judgment of the county court . The commissioners decided from the disclosure and facts found by them , that Walton was indebted to Abbott in the sum of sixty dollars , and was his trustee in that sum . It is no where found that this sum ...
... judgment of the county court . The commissioners decided from the disclosure and facts found by them , that Walton was indebted to Abbott in the sum of sixty dollars , and was his trustee in that sum . It is no where found that this sum ...
Page 58
... judgment . The exceptions came from the plaintiff , and it can only be regarded as an obiter dictum of the judge ; the case found , that the defendant had dug his well in that place on his land , where it was most convenient for him ...
... judgment . The exceptions came from the plaintiff , and it can only be regarded as an obiter dictum of the judge ; the case found , that the defendant had dug his well in that place on his land , where it was most convenient for him ...
Page 74
... judgment against the principal defendants , it does not follow that the trustees are liable to that extent . The statute , 262 , § 46 , provides , that if any person is summoned as trustee , and shall have in his possession any goods ...
... judgment against the principal defendants , it does not follow that the trustees are liable to that extent . The statute , 262 , § 46 , provides , that if any person is summoned as trustee , and shall have in his possession any goods ...
Page 82
... judgment for the plaintiff for the sum awarded . Exceptions by the defendant . The submission was of " all and all manner of action and actions , cause and causes of actions , suits , bills , bonds , specialties , judgments , executions ...
... judgment for the plaintiff for the sum awarded . Exceptions by the defendant . The submission was of " all and all manner of action and actions , cause and causes of actions , suits , bills , bonds , specialties , judgments , executions ...
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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.