Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1785-1951, Volume 2; Volume 5; Volume 21 |
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acres action adm'r administrator admitted adverse possession alleged answer appear appellee assigned assumpsit Bank of Kentucky bill Bodley bond breach brought cause champerty CHANCERY charge Chief Justice BIBB circuit court claim complainant contract convey conveyance costs county court court of equity covenant creditor cree Crittenden damages debt declaration decree deed defendant delivered the Opinion demand demurrer devisees dollars dower ejectment entitled Eubank evidence ex'ors execution executor fact favor fendant fieri facias fraud gainst grant guardian Haggin heirs Ibid injunction interest JESSE BLEDSOE John jurisdiction jury land Lashbrook letters testamentary lien ment motion paid parol parties payment person plaintiff plaintiff in error plea pleaded possession Poston proof proved purchase money question recover rendered replevin reversed Rodes sheriff shew slave sold statute sued suit sureties survey tenant testator thereof tion tract trial trustees usurious vendor verdict warrant wife writ of error
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Page ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, « An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned,"...
Page 309 - A vendor relying upon this lien, ought to reduce it to a mortgage, so as to give notice of it to the •world. If he does not, he is, in some degree, accessory to the fraud committed on the public, by an act which exhibits the vendee as the complete owner of an estate on which he claims a secret lien.
Page ii - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 559 - Act who shall be in attendance at the nearest watchhouse, in order that such person may be secured until he can be brought before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law...
Page 415 - ... threats or persuasions, except only by the strength of evidence and the arguments of counsel in open court at the trial of the cause...
Page 568 - And it was resolved that when any has authority as attorney to do any act, he ought to do it in his name who gives the authority, for he appoints the attorney to be in his place, and to represent his person; and therefore the attorney cannot do it in his own name, nor as his proper act, but in the name and as the act of him who gives the authority.
Page 310 - In the United States, the claims of creditors stand on high ground. There is not perhaps a state in the Union, the laws of which do not make all conveyances, not recorded, and all secret trusts, void as to creditors, as well as subsequent purchasers without notice. To support the secret lien of the vendor *against a creditor who is a mortgagee, would be to ¡*ка counteract the spirit of these laws.
Page 109 - It is ordered that the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, and the cause remanded for another trial thereof.
Page 302 - The express contract that the lien shall be retained to a specified extent, is equivalent to a waiver of that lien to any greater extent.
Page 149 - The ideas of natural justice are regulated by no fixed standard ; the ablest and the purest men have differed upon the subject ; and all that the court could properly say, in such an event, would be, that the legislature (possessed of an equal right of opinion) had passed an act which, in the opinion of the judges, was inconsistent with the abstract principles of natural justice.