Atlantic Reporter, Volum 8West Publishing Company, 1887 |
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action affirmed agreement alleged Allegheny county amount Appeal appellee assessment assignment assumpsit authority bill bond certiorari charge Chester county claim common pleas complainant contract conveyed corporation court of equity Court of Pennsylvania creditors damages Daniel Snyder death debt deceased declared decree deed defendant in error defendant's entitled equity Error to common evidence execution executor fact Fayette county February 17 filed fraud George W heirs held Insurance interest issue judgment jury land liable lien mandamus ment mortgage N. J. Law N. W. Rep Notes Cas notice owner paid parties payment person petitioner Philadelphia Philadelphia county plaintiff in error proceedings proof purchase purpose quarter sessions question real estate reason received recover rule scire facias statute street suit Supreme Court testator testimony thereof tion took this writ township trial trust verdict wife witness Wkly
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Side 324 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Side 457 - Whether a party is guilty of negligence, or not, is a question of fact for the jury, and not a question of law for the court to decide, when the evidence tends to establish such negligence.
Side 324 - The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land.
Side 324 - Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land. If this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's estate to another, legislative judgments, decrees and forfeitures in all possible forms, would be the law of the land.
Side 263 - The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above bounden А. В., his heirs, executors or administrators, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid unto the...
Side 626 - Every building erected within the several counties of this Commonwealth * * * shall be subject to a lien for the payment of all debts contracted for work done or materials furnished for or about the erection or construction of the same.
Side 273 - Provided, that in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead...
Side 416 - ... or additions to the tax provided for by law, then this obligation shall be void, otherwise the same shall be and remain in full force and virtue.
Side 321 - But many regulations are made by statute, designed for the information of assessors and officers, and intended to promote method, system and uniformity in the modes of proceeding, the compliance or non-compliance with which, does in no respect affect the rights of tax-paying citizens. These may be considered...
Side 52 - The statute of this state declares that "all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree...