Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of New Brunswick: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and the Principal Matters, Volume 1

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William L. Avery, Brunswick Press, 1850 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 182 - ... be taken and deemed as conclusive evidence against the validity of the claim thereby so attempted to be enforced.
Page 573 - Commission against him shall be discharged from all Debts due by him when he became bankrupt, and from all Claims and Demands hereby made proveable under the Commission, in case he shall obtain a Certificate of such Conformity so signed and allowed and subject to such Provisions as herein-after directed...
Page 180 - It is furthermore hereby expressly provided, that no suit or action of any kind against said company for the recovery of any claim upon, under or by virtue of this policy, shall be sustainable in any court of law or chancery, unless such suit or action shall be commenced within the term of twelve months next after any loss or damage shall occur...
Page 534 - For the purpose of determining the object of a testator's bounty, or the subject of disposition, or the quantity of interest intended to be given by his will, a Court may inquire into every material fact relating to the person, who claims to be interested under the will, and to the property, which is claimed as the subject of disposition, and to the circumstances of the testator and of his family and affairs ; for the purpose of enabling the Court to identify the person or thing intended by the testator,...
Page 528 - A testator is always presumed to use the words, in which he expresses himself, according to their strict and primary acceptation, unless from the context of the will it appears that he has used them in a different sense ; in which case the sense, in which he thus appears to have used them, will be the sense in which they are to be construed.
Page 629 - Majesty or any of his subjects, and shall and may be assets for the satisfaction thereof, in like manner as real estates are by the law of England liable to the satisfaction of debts due by bond or other specialty...
Page 244 - So, if the auctioneer does not disclose the name of his principal at the time of the sale, the purchaser is entitled to look to him personally for the completion of the contract, and for damages on its non-performance.
Page 173 - If I, residing in England, send down my agent to Scotland, and he makes contracts for me there, it is the same as if I myself went there and made them.
Page 629 - ... indebted, shall be liable to and chargeable with all just debts, duties and demands, of what nature or kind soever, owing by any such person to his Majesty or any of his subjects, and shall and may be assets for the satisfaction thereof, in like manner as real estates are by the law of England liable to the satisfaction of debts...
Page 518 - That all grants and assignments of any trust or confidence shall likewise be in writing, signed by the party granting or assigning the same, or by such last will or devise, or else shall likewise be utterly void and of none effect.

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