| Title | Citation | Year | Summary | Most Relevant | Type | Status |
| Long v. Kent |
6 Ala. 100, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT OF Error to the County Court of Butler County. |
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| Louisville, C. & C.R. Co. v. Letson |
43 U.S. 497, Supreme Court of the United States (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
A citizen of one state can sue a corporation which has been created by, and transacts its business in, another state, (the suit being brought in the latter state,) although some of the members of the corporation are not citizens of the state in which the suit is brought, and although the state itself may be a member of the corporation. The cases of... |
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The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains. |
| Lynch v. Clarke |
3 N.Y.Leg.Obs. 236, Chancery Court of New York (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
J. L. was born in the city of New York in 1819, of alien parents, during their temporary sojourn in that city. She returned with them the same year to their native country, and always resided there afterwards. It was held, that she was a citizen of the United States. The rule of the common law, by which aliens are precluded from inheriting lands,... |
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| Macarty v. Landreaux |
8 Rob. (LA) 130, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. |
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| Macarty v. New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. |
8 Rob. (LA) 102, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. |
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| Magee v. Childers |
6 Ala. 196, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. |
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| Marion v. Chandler |
6 Ala. 899, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Perry. |
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| Marler v. Marler |
6 Ala. 367, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery county. |
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| Marsh v. Briant |
9 Rob. (LA) 7, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Martin, Campbell, J. |
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| Martin v. Pope |
6 Ala. 532, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. |
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| Mason v. Moyers |
41 Va. 606, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
(Absent Cabell, P. and Stanard, J.) The principle settled in Harris v. Carson, 7 Leigh 632. that where a lease has a fixed period for its termination, and there is nothing in it purporting to give to the tenant the crops growing upon the land at the time of its termination, the tenant has no right to reap those crops after his lease terminates,... |
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| Matthews v. Woodson |
41 Va. 601, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
(Absent Brooke and Allen, J.) By deed of marriage settlement, personal property of the wife is conveyed to the husband for the exclusive benefit of the wife and her children during her life, and at her death for her issue, if any then living; and it is provided that in the event of the wife's dying without issue, the property shall be distributed... |
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| May v. Mitchell |
24 Tenn. 365, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
The plaintiff in error delivered the defendant three mules, which he was to take to the southern market and sell for the best price that could be obtained, and return the net proceeds thereof. The defendant carried the mules to the State of Georgia, and there sold them upon a credit, and the purchaser proving insolvent, the purchase-money has been... |
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| Mayberry v. Neely |
24 Tenn. 337, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Mayberry obtained judgments before a justice, against Neely and wife, upon bills single made by them, and he sued them and one Lee, in the circuit court, upon a bill single made by them, and obtained a judgment against Neely and the said Lee, the wife of said Neely in said suit being discharged upon the plea of coverture. Upon these judgments... |
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| McCollom v. McCollom |
6 Rob. (LA) 506, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of Ascension, Nicholls, J. |
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| McCollum v. Eager |
43 U.S. 61, Supreme Court of the United States (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
In the Circuit Court of the United States for Louisiana, where a party seeks relief which is mainly appropriate to a chancery jurisdiction, chancery practice must be followed. A writ of error is not the appropriate mode of bringing up for review, a decree in chancery. It should be brought up by an appeal. An appeal will lie only from a final... |
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| McDonald v. May's Ex'rs |
1 Rich.Eq. 91, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Where a person agreed with a debtor, whose property was about to be sold at sheriff's sale, to purchase the personal property and allow the debtor the benefit of a resale to be made on credit, and he accordingly purchased it at an under value-Held, that he was bound, under the agreement, to account to the debtor for the proceeds of the resale or... |
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| McLane v. Spence |
6 Ala. 894, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
ERROR to the Circuit Court of Talladega. |
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| McLeod v. McDonnel |
6 Ala. 236, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of error to decree of the judge of the country court of Wilcox county on a petition for dower. |
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| McMichael v. Davidson |
7 Rob. (LA) 53, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of Livingston, Jones, J. |
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| Merritt v. Burgess |
7 Rob. (LA) 434, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. |
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| Miller v. New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. |
8 Rob. (LA) 236, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the Parish Court of New Orleans, Maurian, J. |
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| Miller v. Washburn |
3 Ired.Eq. 161, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
On the hearing of a motion to dissolve an injunction, the defendant is the actor; and although the contents of his answer are generally to be taken as true, it must fully meet the plaintiff's equity--there must be no evasion, no disposition shewn to pass over the material allegations of the bill--and if a reasonable doubt exist in the minds of the... |
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| Milo v. Lynch |
9 Rob. (LA) 98, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Mary, King, J. |
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| Mishon v. Bein |
7 Rob. (LA) 146, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. |
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| Mitchell v. Mitchell |
2 Gill 230, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
On the 6th August 1837, J, by his last will, devised his sister S. an annuity, to be paid by his executrix, and charged the same on the whole of his real estate. After a devise of a farm to his wife, for her life, he bequeathed the same unto the eldest male heir of the body of his brother H., and the heirs and assigns of such male heir, if he... |
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| Monroe v. Brady |
7 Ala. 59, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. |
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| Montgomery v. Livistones |
8 Rob. (LA) 145, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Watts, J. |
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| Moore & Davis v. Byne |
1 Rich. 94, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
In serving attachments, either foreign or domestic, the sheriff has no authority to take goods out of the possession of one who claims property in them. Where a sheriff, acting under the process of the court, mistakes his duty, and seizes property when the process does not authorize a seizure, the court has authority to undo the injury, by ordering... |
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| Moore v. Gwynn |
5 Ired. 187, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Courts cannot take notice of the laws of a foreign State. They must be proven as facts, 3 Wooddeson, 306. Way v. Yally, 2 Salkeld, 561. In Talbot v. Seeman, 1 Cranch, 38, Judge MARSHALL says, That the laws of a foreign State, designed only for the direction of its own affairs, are not to be noticed by the courts of other countries, unless proven... |
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| Moore v. Spence |
6 Ala. 506, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
ERROR to the Circuit Court of Talladega. |
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| Mordecai v. Gadsden |
29 S.C.L. 566, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
1. Action on a written instrument as follows: Sixty days after date, I guaranty the payment of three hundred and fifty six dollars, sixty cents, due by J. M. Verdier, of Beaufort, to Benjamin Mordecai. |
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| Moreau v. Chauvin |
8 Rob. (LA) 157, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. |
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| Morgan v. Herriman |
7 Rob. (LA) 322, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the Parish Court of New Orleans, Maurian, J. |
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| Morgan v. McGhee |
24 Tenn. 13, Supreme Court of Tennessee (September 01, 1844) |
1844 |
The defendant pleads, in abatement, that the plainti?? is a feme covert, upon which plea there is issue. The proof shows that the plaintiff, Margaret Morgan, and one Gideon Morgan were married in the Cherokee Nation of Indians, according to the forms and ceremonies of the tribe, some time in the year 1813; that Margaret was a Cherokee woman... |
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| Morgan v. Reading |
3 Smedes & M. 366, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (November 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Where the parties to a suit have agreed upon the facts, and for the purpose of using that agreement as evidence have reduced the same to writing, they are concluded by it from introducing any evidence to vary or contradict the agreed state of facts. To permit it would be a surprise to the opposite party. The Act of Congress establishing the... |
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| Morrill v. Menifee's Adm'rs |
5 Ark. 629, Supreme Court of Arkansas (July 01, 1844) |
1844 |
This case falls within the doctrines settled in Hill's administrators v. Mitchell, et al., 5 Ark. 608, and the judgment below is reversed, because the court, in refusing to grant a new trial, decided that an administrator could maintain an action of ejectment against the tenant in possession. |
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The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains. |
| Murdock v. Washburn |
1 Smedes & M. 546, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
The distributees of an estate of a deceased person, are, under the probate laws of this State, entitled to distribution of the estate according to law, after the expiration of twelve months from the grant of letters of administration. It is no bar to a petition for such distribution, that there are debts outstanding against the estate, or creditors... |
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| Nabors v. State |
6 Ala. 200, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of Error to the Circuit Court of Pike county. |
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| Nancy v. State |
6 Ala. 483, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery county. |
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| Nathan v. State |
8 Mo. 631, Supreme Court of Missouri (July 01, 1844) |
1844 |
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted for an attempt to commit a rape upon a white women. To reverse the judgment, three points are relied upon: first, that the indictment does not charge that the attempt was made felonionsly; second, that the verdict is against the weight of testimony; and thirdly, that a portion of the jurors had... |
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| New Orleans Gas Light and Banking Co. v. Botts |
9 Rob. (LA) 305, Supreme Court of Louisiana (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. |
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| Newcomb v. Presbrey |
8 Metcalf 406, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (October 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Each party in this case claims title under Simeon Presbrey; and the question at the trial was, which of the parties had the elder and better title. The demandant gave in evidence a quitclaim deed of the demanded premises to him, from the said Presbrey, dated September 20th 1830, duly acknowledged, and recorded October 5th 1838. The tenant then... |
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| Nixon v. State |
1 Morr.St.Cas. 226, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
By the words speedy trial, as used in the constitution of this state, in guaranteeing to each one indicted, a speedy trial, by an impartial jury, is meant a trial regulated and conducted by fixed rules of law; and any delay created by the operation of those rules, is not included in the meaning of the constitutional provision. The statute of this... |
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| Norment's Adm'r v. Wilson |
24 Tenn. 310, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
The complainant has filed this bill, in order that a contract of sale and purchase, made between him and a commissioner appointed by the circuit court of Davidson county, of a tract of land lying in said county, which sale took place in a proceeding before said court, for the sale and partition of the proceeds of said tract of land, devised by the... |
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| O'Brien & Fryer v. Bound |
29 S.C.L. 495, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
1. Where, in case of a joint hiring of a carriage, horses and driver, it being a part of the contract that the carriage should be driven by the driver alone, one of the hirers assumed the office of driver, and, from his negligence or want of skill, an injury was done to the carriage and a horse, all of the hirers were held liable to the owner. 2.... |
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| Offutt v. Edwards |
9 Rob. (LA) 90, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Landry, Boyce, J. |
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| O'Neall ads. Farr |
1 Rich. 80, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (December 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Influence, in procuring a will to be made, to be undue, must not be an influence obtained by modest persuasion, by arguments addressed to the understanding, or by appeals to the affections merely, but must be an influence obtained either by flattery, by excessive importunity, by threats, or in some other way by which a dominion is... |
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| O'Reilly v. Hendricks |
2 Smedes & M. 388, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) |
1844 |
It is not error for the court to refuse to give a charge to the jury, which is law, unless it also be pertinent to the state of case before the court. J. being in debt, and O. being his surety, J. conveyed property to O. to secure him, and delivered it to O., with verbal authority to sell in case he became liable. J. died, and O. having been... |
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| Oxley v. Clay |
7 Rob. (LA) 425, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) |
1844 |
Appeal from the Court of Probates of St. Charles, Labranche, J. |
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