Hubbell's Legal Directory for Lawyers and Businessmen ...J.H. Hubbell & Company, 1909 - Lawyers |
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acknowledgment affidavit agent amount appeal appointed assignment attachment attorney bill bills of exchange bond capital stock cause of action cent certificate Chattel Mortgages circuit court claim clerk Code commenced commission commissioner contract conveyance court of record creditors debt debtor decedent decree deed defendant deposition descendants divorce dower duly entitled exceeding execution exempt filed foreign corporation garnishment grantor homestead hundred dollars husband or wife indorsed insolvent instrument interest interrogatories intestate issue judge judgment judgment debtor justice land letters testamentary levy liable lien marriage married woman months mortgagor non-resident notary public notice oath officer owner paid party payable payment personal property plaintiff possession probate proof purchaser real estate real property register of deeds replevin resident seal statute stockholders subscribed suit summons sureties taken therein thereof thirty days thousand dollars trust unless widow witness writ
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Page 417 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust...
Page 344 - ... for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them, on the same principle, among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner...
Page 442 - ... for the prosecution of the action, for the return of the property to the defendant if return thereof be adjudged, and for the payment to him of such sum as may for any cause be recovered against the plaintiff...
Page 289 - ... in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive...
Page 151 - In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open and current, account where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.
Page 136 - ... that in actions of debt or upon the case grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract...
Page 422 - A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she shall have lawfully released her right thereto.
Page 414 - A mortgage of real property shall not be deemed a conveyance, whatever its terms, so as to enable the owner of the mortgage to recover possession of the real property without a foreclosure and sale.
Page 428 - Every negotiable instrument is payable at the time fixed therein without grace. When the day of maturity falls upon Sunday, or a holiday, the instrument is payable on the next succeeding business day.
Page 63 - Courts; also, in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real estate, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, or in which the demand, exclusive of interest, or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three hundred dollars...