Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volum 17

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Side 182 - Business' is a very comprehensive term and embraces everything about which a person can be employed. Black's Law Diet., 158, citing People v. Commissioners of Taxes, 23 NY 242, 244, 'that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit.
Side 562 - It is upon the same ground that Equity interferes in cases of written agreements, where there has been an innocent omission or insertion of a material stipulation, contrary to the intention of both parties, and under a mutual mistake.
Side 208 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state or territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the Judge, Chief Justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Side 368 - Tenants in common are such as hold by several and distinct titles, but by unity of possession ; because none knoweth his own severalty, and therefore they all occupy promiscuously. This tenancy, therefore, happens where there is a unity of possession merely, but perhaps an entire disunion of interest, of title, and of time.
Side 285 - All sales of property under any decree of admiralty shall be made by the marshal or his deputy, or other proper officer assigned by the court, where the marshal is a party in interest, in pursuance of the orders of the court; and the proceeds thereof, when sold, shall be forthwith paid into the registry of the court by the officer making the sale, to be disposed of by the court according to law.
Side 413 - ... the plaintiff in ejectment must recover Upon the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of that of his adversary.
Side 594 - ... where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declarations (2).
Side 50 - ... after the determination of such term or terms, and after demand made and notice in writing given...
Side 96 - R. 348, it was held, that, where a party to an instrument seals it, and declares in the presence of a witness that he delivers it as his deed, but keeps it in his own possession, and there is nothing to qualify that, or to...
Side 290 - Any will, testament and codicil, or authenticated copies thereof, proven according to the laws of any of the United. States, or the territories thereof, or of any country out of the limits of the United States, and touching or concerning estates within this...

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