 | Henry Roscoe - 1832 - 660 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time ; but to afford security against state demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten. or bo incapable of explanation, by reason of the death or removal of witnesses." If the bar of the statute... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1889 - 648 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been...every honest effort to counteract or overcome them." Judge STORY, ( 1 Peters's Rep. 360.) " In the modern cases, the statute has been considered as entitled... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 602 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time ; but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or become incapable. of explanation, by reason of the death or removal of witnesses ; that, therefore,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1837 - 534 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time ; but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been...explanation by reason of the death or removal of witnesses." — Justice Story, in J5e// vs. Morrison et al. 1 Pet. R. 360. The opinion of the court was delivered... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to alford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been...removal of witnesses. It has a manifest tendency to produco speedy settlements of accounts, and to suppress those prejudices which mny rise up at a distance... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1848 - 904 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or become incapable of explanation, by the death or removal of witnesses.' (By Story, J., in Bell v. Morrison,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1852 - 560 sider
...presumption of payment of a, just debt, from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been...explanation by reason of the death or removal of witnesses. 2 Greenl. Ev. sec. 440, p. 354. This is tho language of Mr. Justice Story, in Bell v. Morrison, 1 Peters'... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands after the true state of the transaction may have been...of explanation by reason of the death or removal of witnesses."3 Sir Wm. Blackstone also remarks, that, in all possessory actions, there is a time of limitation... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time, but to afford security agaiast stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been...be incapable of explanation, by reason of the death of witnesses. — Bell v. Morison, 1 Peters' SC Rep., 860. Wetzell v. Bustard, 1 1 Wheaton, 309. Hie... | |
 | 1854 - 548 sider
...presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands after the true state of the transaction may have been...of explanation by reason of the death or removal of the witnesses." Again Starkic on Eridence, Vol. 2, s. 894, " Limitations," says: " The Statute of limitations... | |
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It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or be incapable of... 
