Cases Argued and Determined in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors, in the State of New-York. [1796-1805], Volym 1–2

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Sida 151 - Where the law antecedently to the revision was settled, either by clear expressions in the statutes, or adjudications on them, the mere change of phraseology shall not be deemed or construed a change of the law, unless such phraseology evidently purports an intention in the legislature to work a change.
Sida 57 - Without these constant acts of mutual kindness and assistance, the course of business and commerce would be prodigiously impeded and disturbed. It becomes then excessively important to have the rule established, that a surety is never to be implicated beyond his specific engagement.
Sida 264 - ... think themselves aggrieved may appeal ; and this superior court judges by the same rule which governs the Court of Admiralty, viz. the law of nations, and the treaties subsisting with that neutral power whose subject is a party before them. If no appeal is offered it is an acknowledgment of the justice of the sentence by the parties themselves, and conclusive.
Sida 15 - 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.
Sida 80 - USURY, in a strict sense, is a contract upon the loan of money, to give the lender a certain profit for the use of it, upon all events, whether the borrower made any advantage of it, or the lender...
Sida 89 - Road the sum of forty dollars for every share of stock in the said company set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportion, and at such time and place as shall be determined by the said president directors and company...
Sida 93 - been adopted by all the authorities, that ' a statute made " ' in the affirmative, without any negative expressed or " ' implied, doth not take away the common law.
Sida xviii - All commerce is entirely prohibited with a besieged town. If I lay siege to a place, or only form the blockade, I have a right to hinder any one from entering, and to treat as an enemy whoever attempts to enter the place, or carry any thing to the besieged, without my leave.
Sida 110 - To allow a statute, having for its object the prevention of frauds, to be interposed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, would evidently encourage the mischiefs the legislature intended to prevent.
Sida 11 - But if a man maketh a deed of feoffment to another, and a letter of attorney to one to deliver to him seisin by force of the same deed...

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