Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature and in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors in the State of New-York, Volum 14Banks & Brothers, 1853 |
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volum 14 New York (State). Supreme Court,William Johnson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1883 |
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Side 135 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act. If from the plaintiff's own stating or otherwise the cause of action appears to arise ex turpi causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the court says he has no right to be assisted. It is upon that ground the court goes; not for the sake of the defendant, but because they will not lend their aid to such a plaintiff.
Side 387 - the statute is like a tyrant, where he comes he makes all void, but the common law is like a nursing father and makes void only that part where the fault is and preserves the rest.
Side 106 - It is a general and sound principle that whenever the law vests any person with a power to do an act, and constitutes him a judge of the evidence on which the act may be done, and. at the same time, contemplates that the act is to be carried into effect through the instrumentality of agents, the person thus clothed with power is invested with discretion, and is, quoad hoc, a judge.
Side 406 - The intrinsic force of this argument, the boldness with which it was applied, and the commanding weight of the very respectable character who used it, caused the courts for a time to pause. Lord Eldon, in 11 Vesey...
Side 450 - It is the possession of the legal estate, or a right in the subject, over which the power is to be exercised, that makes the interest in question...
Side 337 - States that such warriors of the Cherokee nation as were engaged on the side of the United States in the late war with Great Britain and the southern tribes of Indians, and who were wounded in such service shall be entitled to such pensions as shall be allowed them by the Congress of the United States to commence from the period of their disability.
Side 243 - ... or of any colony, district or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district or people, with whom the United States are at peace...
Side 238 - ... intended to be employed by the owners to cruise or commit hostilities upon the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or State, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace...
Side 403 - Lordships are of opinion that the judgment of the Supreme Court ought to be...
Side 404 - Wms. 771. Forms are not regarded, and the statute is satisfied if the terms of the contract are in writing, and the names of the contracting parties appear. Clason's name was inserted in the contract by his authorized agent, and if it were admitted that the name of the other party was not there by their direction, yet the better opinion is, that Clason, the party who is sought to be charged, is estopped, by his name, from saying that the contract was not duly signed within the purview...