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Page 329 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate...
Page 329 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 329 - ... is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof, unless the promise or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized, (c) This statute is copied, with but one variation, from 29 Car., 2, c.
Page 140 - A delivery of goods In trust upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be duly executed, and the goods restored by the bailee as soon as the purposes of the bailment shall be answered.
Page 519 - I have, therefore, no hesitation in saying that, in a case where there is a concurrent jurisdiction in the courts of common law and equity, the rule must be the same, and the statute of limitations may be pleaded with the same effect, in the one court as in the other In cases of trust and fraud, — peculiarly, appropriately, and exclusively the objects of equity jurisdiction, — according to the established doctrine, the statute cannot be pleaded.
Page 319 - It is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that significance and effect shall, if possible, be accorded to every word. As early as in Bacon's Abridgment, sect. 2, it was said that 'a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.
Page 183 - He who sells property on a description given by himself, is bound to make good that description ; and if it be untrue in a material point, although the variance be occasioned by a mistake, must still remain liable for that variance.
Page 99 - ... by fraud or accident, or the act of the opposite party unmixed with negligence or fault on his part.
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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee [1818-1837], Volume 3 Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee [1818-1837], Tennessee. Supreme Court |
| Authors | George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court |
| Contributor | Tennessee. Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals |
| Publisher | Printed at the Republican and Gazette Office, Hall and Heiskell, State Printers, 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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