Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors: From July A. D. 1789 to June A. D. 1793; with a Variety of Cases Anterior to that Period. Prefaced with Observations Upon the Government and Laws of Connecticut. To which is Subjoined, Sundry Law Points Adjudged, and Rules of Practice Adopted in the Superior Court, Volume 2Hudson and Goodwin, 1802 - Court rules |
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Page 446 - The judicial power fhall extend to all cafes, in law and equity, arifmg under this conftitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which (hall be made, under their authority; to all cafes...
Page 118 - ... of their names. Is it conscientious then that the defendant should keep money which he has got by their misrepresentation, and should say, though there is no alteration in my account with my principal, this is a hit, I have got the money and I will keep it? If there had been any new credit given, it would have been proper to have left it to the jury to say, whether any prejudice had happened to the defendant by means of this payment: but here no prejudice at all is proved, and none is to be inferred.
Page 341 - Lands againil any other Perfon or Perfons whatfoever but the Grantor or Grantors, and their Heirs only ; unlefs the Grant, Deed or Deeds thereof be recorded at length in the Records of the Town where fuch Houfes and Lands do lie.
Page 446 - States fhall be a party ; to controverfies between two or more ftates, between a ftate and citizens of another ftate, between citizens of different ftates, between citizens of the fame ftate, claiming lands under grants of different ftates, and between a ftate, or the citizens thereof, and foreign ftates, citizens, or fubjefts.
Page 487 - I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form (viz) Imprimis: I give and bequeath unto...
Page 61 - THIS cause coming on for final disposal before in the presence of , on the part of the plaintiff, and on the part of the defendant, it is ordered that the do pay to the • the sum of Rs.
Page 262 - ... who has a right by law to demand and recover of another a sum of money on any account whatever.
Page 389 - ... to the proceedings before a justice of the peace of that city, except as otherwise specially prescribed in this title. Each of those justices must hold his court open, from nine o'clock in the morning, until three o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 483 - Court should be of opinion that there was no evidence to go to the jury. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.
Page 281 - The common law of England, which has been urged in this case, is not to be mentioned as an authority in opposition to the positive laws of our own state ; and nothing can be more unjust than that the innocent offspring should be punished for the crimes of their parents, by being deprived of their right of inheriting by the mother, when there does not exist amongst men a relation so near and so certain as that of mother and child.