Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880Michie Company, 1900 |
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28 Gratt acres adm'r administrator affirmed aforesaid agent alleged amount appellant appellees April Bank bond cause charge circuit court cited claim clause Coffman commissioner Commonwealth Confederate money contract conveyed counsel county court court of equity creditors debtor declared decree deed of trust defendant Dinwiddie county entitled equity error evidence ex'or executed executors fact Fauquier county filed fraud further of opinion George W ground guardian Harkrader heirs Idem indictment instruction insured interest invested issue John judge judgment jury Leigh liable lien ment Nicholas Mills overruled paid parol parties payable payment person plaintiff plaintiff in error possession principal purchase money question real estate received record refused rendered Richmond rule secure Smythe county sold statute suit sureties testator therein thereof tion trial Utterback valid verdict Virginia wharf wife William William Nash witness Wytheville
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Side 282 - Probable cause" has been defined as a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged.
Side 78 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in a doubtful case.
Side 52 - It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities of the States, nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxing the means and instrumentalities of that government. In both cases the exemption rests upon necessary implication, and is upheld by the great law of self-preservation; as any government, whose means employed in conducting its operations, if subject to the control of another and distinct...
Side 78 - But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.
Side 307 - The obligation of a contract is "the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 197; Story, op. cit., § 1378. This Court has said that "the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms.
Side 26 - A sentence of a court pronounced against a party without hearing him, or giving him an opportunity to be heard, is not a judicial determination of his rights, and is not entitled to respect in any other tribunal.
Side 444 - ... from all debts and claims which by said act are made provable against his estate, and which existed on the...
Side 131 - And it is further provided in the policy that, "if the interest of the assured in the property be any other than the entire, unconditional, and sole ownership of the property, for the use and benefit of the assured...
Side 169 - ... and shall also produce a certificate, under the hand and seal of a magistrate or notary public, (nearest the place of the fire, not concerned in the loss as a creditor or otherwise, nor related to the assured,) stating that he has examined the circumstances attending the loss, knows the character and circumstances of the assured, and verily believes that the assured has, without fraud, sustained loss on the property insured to the amount which such magistrate or notary public shall certify.
Side 285 - ... piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the county of , and state of Minnesota, to wit: [describe land or premises granted].