| Title | Citation | Year | Summary | Most Relevant | Type | Status |
| Davis v. Dale |
2 La.Ann. 205, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Concondia, Curry, J. |
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| Dean v. Commonwealth |
4 Gratt. 541, General Court of Virginia (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
On the first question presented by the first bill of exceptions, the Court are unanimously of opinion there is no error. On the second question in the same bill of exceptions, a large majority of the Court are of the same opinion: dissentiente Robertson, Scarburgh and Thompson. On the second bill of exceptions, the Court are unanimously of opinion... |
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| Dearing v. Windham |
11 Ala. 204, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lawrence. |
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| Decoux v. Bank of Louisiana |
2 La.Ann. 157, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Pointe Coupée, Farrar, J. |
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| Denton v. Willcox |
2 La.Ann. 60, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Watts, J. |
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| Depas v. Riez |
2 La.Ann. 30, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the Second District Court of New Orleans, Canon, J. Phinias Depas by his will bequeathed to the defendant, his widow, all that the law permitted him to dispose of in her favor, in full property, or usufruct, at her choice, dispensing her from furnishing security in case she decides to take the usufruct. He left one son by a former... |
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| Dickerman v. Reagan |
2 La.Ann. 440, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Concordia, Curry, J. |
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| Dillard v. Dillard |
33 S.C.L. 89, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (December 01, 1847) |
1847 |
On a question of devisavit vel non, the Court excluded evidence of the admissions and declarations against their interest of the legatees under a will, who were equal in interest with the executor. The admissions of one who is not the sole party in interest, whether on the record or not, are not evidence on a question of devisavit vel non. |
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| Dixon v. Thatcher's Heirs |
8 Ark. 134, Supreme Court of Arkansas (July 01, 1847) |
1847 |
The first point presented relates to the propriety of the decision of the court below in substituting the heirs instead of the administratrix of the original defendant. The 10 sec. of the 1st chap. of the Revised Code provides that where there is but one defendant in the action, and he shall die before final judgment, such action shall not thereby... |
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| Doe v. Roe |
3 Kelly 105, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1847) |
1847 |
[1.] The heirs at law of a deceased intestate can maintain an action of ejectment to recover the possession of land, against a mere wrongdoer. [2.] An administrator of a deceased intestate in this State, can also maintain an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of land for the payment of debts, and to make distribution thereof in the... |
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| Dorman v. Bigelow |
1 Fla. 281, Supreme Court of Florida (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
A. made a promissory note to pay B. a sum of money on a day certain, and C. endorsed thereon, I agree to stand security for the payment of the within amount. Held, in an action against C., that his undertaking, by the said endorsement, was not within the statute of frauds of this State, and that the action was maintainable against him. A promise... |
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| Drinkwater v. Holliday |
11 Ala. 134, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Error to the Circuit Court of Marion. |
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| Driskell v. Parish |
5 West.L.J. 206, Circuit Court, D Ohio (November 01, 1847) |
1847 |
This was an action of debt brought [by Driskell against Parish] to recover the penalty prescribed by the act of congress of February 12, 1793, respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. By the 4th section of this statute, it is provided, that if any person shall knowingly and willingly... |
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| Dugan v. Fowler |
8 Ark. 181, Supreme Court of Arkansas (July 01, 1847) |
1847 |
The Territorial Statute authorizing the issuance of executions against the principal and securities in a forfeited delivery bond, did not preclude the creditor from instituting an ordinary suit upon the bond. Writ of Error to Pulaski Circuit Court. Action of debt by James S. Dugan, as administrator of Ezekiel Dugan, against Absalom Fowler, on a... |
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| Dunbar v. His Creditors |
2 La.Ann. 727, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of West Feliciana, Boyle, J. |
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| Dunn v. Davis |
12 Ala. 135, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Shelby. |
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| Dupuy v. Bemiss |
2 La.Ann. 509, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Madison, Curry, J. |
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| Dupuy v. Hunt |
2 La.Ann. 562, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the First District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. The facts of this case are stated in the opinion of the court, infra, and in that pronounced in the case of Dupuy, Curator, v. Bemiss, 2 La.Ann. 509. |
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| Dwight v. Carson |
2 La.Ann. 459, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Mary, Boyce, J. |
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| Easly v. Boyd |
12 Ala. 684, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Error to the Circuit Court of Talladega. |
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| Edney v. King |
4 Ired.Eq. 465, Supreme Court of North Carolina (August 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Every person, who claims to recover, either at law or in equity, must shew a title in the pleadings, and that ought to be done by distinct averments or plain affirmative statements. The title of a bill is no part of it. It is merely a mode of conveniently d?? nominatiug a bill or cause, and it cannot be deemed a part of the statements of the bill,... |
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| Edwards v. Gibbs |
11 Ala. 292, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Error to the Circuit Court of Shelby. |
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| Eldridge v. Turner |
11 Ala. 1049, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Writ of Error to the Court of Chancery sitting in Benton. |
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| Ells v. Sims |
2 La.Ann. 251, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Concordia, Curry, J. The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion of the court infrâ. |
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| Erwin v. Lowry |
2 La.Ann. 314, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the Court of Probates of Madison, Downes, J. |
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| Eugenie v. Preval |
2 La.Ann. 180, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of non-suit rendered by the District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. |
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| Ex parte Shackelford |
20 S.C.Eq. 275, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (April 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Where two parties took a bond payable to them, or either of them, as executrix and executor of the same testator-the Court, regarding them as trustees of the estate, when the executor afterwards became executor also of the obligor in the bond, on the petition of the executrix would not allow him to deny his fiduciary character, nor her to be met... |
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| Ezekiel v. Dixon |
3 Kelly 146, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1847) |
1847 |
[1.] In construing a statute, the intention of the Legislature is a fit and proper subject of inquiry. That intention, however, is to be collected from the act itself, and other acts upon the same matter. [2.] When the language of a statute is clear, direct, and positive, leading to no absurd results, and affording a suitable, if not a sufficient... |
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| Falls v. Weissinger |
11 Ala. 801, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lowndes. |
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| Fambro v. Gantt |
12 Ala. 298, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Writ of Error to the County Court of Dallas. |
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The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains. |
| Farley v. Gilmer |
12 Ala. 141, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Error to the Orphans' Court of Montgomery. |
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| Farrar v. Rowly |
2 La.Ann. 475, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Concordia, Mayo, J. In this case the defendant Rowly alone appealed. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court, infra. |
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| Farrar v. Stacy |
2 La.Ann. 210, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Concordia, Curry, J. |
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| Felder v. Harper |
12 Ala. 612, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Error to the Circuit Court of Macon. |
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| Fisher v. Fisher |
2 La.Ann. 774, Supreme Court of Louisiana (August 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Martin, Overton, J. |
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The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled. |
| Fisher v. Gordy |
2 La.Ann. 762, Supreme Court of Louisiana (August 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Martin, Overton, J. |
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| Fitzgerald v. Reed |
9 Smedes & M. 94, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
The contracts of persons non compotes mentis, are, if not wholly void, at all events voidable, unless when they relate to necessaries suited to their condition in life. When the fact of an incapacity to make a legal contract is established, the contract, unless in certain excepted cases, is avoided. That is a legal consequence depending on the... |
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| Florance v. Yorke |
2 La.Ann. 995, Supreme Court of Louisiana (December 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. |
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| Flournoy v. Johnson |
7 B.Mon. 693, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 11, 1847) |
1847 |
Devises. Uses. Trusts. Chancery jurisdiction. ERROR TO THE MCCRACKEN CIRCUIT. IT was in effect decided in the case of Cosby vs Ferguson, (3 J. J. Marshall, 264,) that a provision in a deed of trust for the benefit of a man and his family, is to be regarded as securing a benefit and interest to the family, which if the deed be valid, cannot be... |
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| Folk v. Whitley |
8 Ired. 133, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1847) |
1847 |
It is not necessary to consider the effect of the statute and decree of legitimation, nor whether the defendants could under them be regarded as answering the description of the heirs of Benjamin Whitley, lawfully begotten of his body, supposing them to take as purchasers; because the Court is of opinion, that those are not words of purchase, but... |
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| Fontenot v. Fontenot |
2 La.Ann. 780, Supreme Court of Louisiana (August 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of St. Landry, Overton, J. |
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| Forbes v. Forbes |
5 Gill 29, Court of Appeals of Maryland (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
We do not consider it necessary to enquire into the question, whether the release executed by the complainant before he attained age was void or voidable. The release now in controversy, was executed after the complainant attained age, and the enquiry is whether the release executed at such a time, and under the circumstances, was void. No doubt a... |
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| Ford v. Douglas |
46 U.S. 143, Supreme Court of the United States (January 01, 1847) |
1847 |
By the laws of Louisiana, where there has been a judicial sale of the succession by a probate judge, a creditor of the estate, who obtains a judgment, cannot levy an execution upon the property so transferred, upon the ground that the sale was fraudulent and void. He should first bring an action to set the sale aside. THIS was an appeal from the... |
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| Ford v. Godbold |
33 S.C.L. 109, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (December 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Where the plaintiff sought to recover damages for the injury done him, as defendant in execution, by the official misconduct of the Sheriff, in not having entered a sale of his land in the Sheriff's books, and the jury had found that the plaintiff had made a fraudulent representation of his title at the Sheriff's salethe Court held, that in... |
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| Forward v. Armstead |
12 Ala. 124, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Writ of Error to the Court of Chancery for the thirteenth district. |
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| Foy v. Neal |
33 S.C.L. 156, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (November 01, 1847) |
1847 |
In trespass to try title, where the jury, in locating the land, under a deed, have made no use of extrinsic facts, inconsistent with its terms, nor violated any of the rules for the construction of deeds, their verdict will not be disturbed. The rule of construction of a deed is, that all the parts of a description contained therein should be taken... |
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| Freeman v. Savage |
2 La.Ann. 269, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Carroll, Wilson, J. |
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| Freeman v. Sedwick |
6 Gill 28, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1847) |
1847 |
The bill in this case states that on or about the 2d May, 1837, the complainant, in order to settle certain personal estate upon himself and family, as he might afterwards determine, executed a deed thereof to his brother, Joshua Sedwick, in whom he reposed implicit confidence, for the nominal consideration of $7,000, whereas no such sum, nor any... |
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| Freeman v. Stacy |
2 La.Ann. 615, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Concordia, Curry, J. The plaintiff appealed from a verdict and judgment rendered in favor of the defendant. |
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| Friend v. Fenner |
2 La.Ann. 789, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1847) |
1847 |
Appeal from the District Court of Claiborne, Campbell, J. |
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