Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Courts of Law in the State of South Carolina: Since the RevolutionI. Riley. For sale by E. Morford, Willington & Company Charleston; Seymour & Williams, Savannah; Lewis Adams, Richmond; Cole & Thomas, Baltimore; P. Byrne, Philadelphia; R. M'Dermut, and S. Gould, New-York; John West, & Company Boston; Daniel Johnson, Portland, 1809 |
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... witnesses , which was opposed by the Camden , No vember Ses- sions , 1783 . Where a pri- soner has been commit- ted to gaol for a capital of- fence , only a previous to the sitting of short time the court , or during the session , so ...
... witnesses , which was opposed by the Camden , No vember Ses- sions , 1783 . Where a pri- soner has been commit- ted to gaol for a capital of- fence , only a previous to the sitting of short time the court , or during the session , so ...
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... witnesses , who could make his innocence appear , were at such a dis- tance , as to have rendered it impossible for him to have had their testimony in due time . With regard to the reasons urged against the dangerous tendency of the ...
... witnesses , who could make his innocence appear , were at such a dis- tance , as to have rendered it impossible for him to have had their testimony in due time . With regard to the reasons urged against the dangerous tendency of the ...
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... witnesses , and be fully prepared . The rule of law for putting off trials , was the same in criminal , as in civil cases . And the Court never would hurry on an unfortunate fellow - citizen to a trial , without giving him a reasonable ...
... witnesses , and be fully prepared . The rule of law for putting off trials , was the same in criminal , as in civil cases . And the Court never would hurry on an unfortunate fellow - citizen to a trial , without giving him a reasonable ...
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... witnesses were call- ed , particularly Alexander Scott , William Floyd and David Lee , who all testified that he was made a prisoner himself in his own house , compelled to deliver up his arms , and from thence was carried a prisoner to ...
... witnesses were call- ed , particularly Alexander Scott , William Floyd and David Lee , who all testified that he was made a prisoner himself in his own house , compelled to deliver up his arms , and from thence was carried a prisoner to ...
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... witnesses , and a balance was eventually found for plaintiff , to the amount of 79 % after allowing a sum for the loss of rent occasioned by the delay in not finishing off the house . LIBER and Wife against The Executors of PARSONS ...
... witnesses , and a balance was eventually found for plaintiff , to the amount of 79 % after allowing a sum for the loss of rent occasioned by the delay in not finishing off the house . LIBER and Wife against The Executors of PARSONS ...
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الصفحة 151 - Ohio ; and all prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by the authority of the state of Ohio ; and all indictments shall conclude against the peace and dignity of the same.
الصفحة 406 - Courts of equity from the earliest times thought the doctrine too absurd for them to adopt ; and, therefore, they always acted in direct contradiction to it. And we shall soon see that courts of law also altered their language on the subject very much.
الصفحة 76 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed.
الصفحة 175 - A fair voluntary conveyance may be good against creditors, notwithstanding its being voluntary. The circumstance of a man being indebted at the time of his making a voluntary conveyance, is an argument of fraud. The question, therefore, in every case is, whether the act done is a bona fide transaction, or whether it is a trick and contrivance to defeat creditors.
الصفحة 98 - We are, therefore, bound to give such construction to this enacting clause of the Act of 1788, as will be consistent with justice and the dictates of natural reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law...
الصفحة 507 - If the thing of which she is endowed be divisible, her dower must be set out by metes and bounds ; but if it be indivisible, she must be endowed specially ; as of the third presentation to a church, the third toll-dish of a mill, the third part of the profits of an office, the third sheaf of tithe, and the like (e).
الصفحة 60 - So if a man take a horse from another, and bring him back again, an action of trespass will not lie against his executor, though it would against him; but an action for the use and hire of the horse will lie against the executor.
الصفحة 98 - In the present instance, we have an act before us, which, were the strict letter of it applied to the case of the present claimants, would be evidently against common reason. But we would not do the legislature who passed this act so much injustice as to sit here and say that it was their intention to make a forfeiture ot property brought in here as this was.