Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of North Carolina: From the Year 1804 to the Year [1819] ... Inclusive, Volume 2J. Gales & Son, 1826 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 42 - that no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the Law of the land.
Page 151 - of the estate of such intestate to be distributed to such child or children as shall have any lands by settlement from the intestate or were advanced ' in the life.time of the intestate, as shall make the estate of all the said children to be equal as near as can
Page 151 - heir at law, notwithstanding any land that he shall have by descent or otherwise from the intestate, is to have an equal part in the distribution with the rest of the children, without any consideration of the value of the land which he hath by descent or otherwise from the intestate.
Page 42 - that in •all controversies at Law respecting property, the ancient mode of trial by Jury is one of the best securities of the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable.
Page 174 - be deemed and taken only as against that person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, his and their heirs, successors, executors, administrators and assigns, and against all and every other person and persons lawfully having or claiming by, from or under them or any of them,
Page 212 - After demurrer joined and entered, in any action or suit in any Court of record within this realm, the Judges shall proceed and give judgment according as the very right of the cause, and matter in law shall appear unto them, without regarding any imperfection, defect or want of form in any writ, return, plaint, declaration, or other pleading, process or course of proceeding whatsoever,
Page 174 - have purchased or shall hereafter so purchase for money or other good consideration, the same lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any part or parcel thereof, or any rent, profit or commodity in or out of the same, to be utterly void, frustrate and of none effect, any pretence, colour, feigned consideration, or expressing of any use or uses, to the contrary notwithstanding,
Page 213 - except those only which the party demurring shall specially and particularly set down and express, together with his demurrer, and that no judgment to be given, shall be reversed by any writ of error for any such imperfection, defect or want of form as is aforesaid, except
Page 15 - substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
Page 44 - property, the ancient mode of trial by Jury is one of the best securities of the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable.