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Bulow v. City Council of Charleston 1 Nott & McC. 527, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1819) 1819 The City Council of Charleston passed an Ordinance, laying a tax on all Bank Stock, within the City, except that which was exempted from taxation by the acts of the legislature, which exception did not include United States Bank Stock, Held, that the Ordinance was within the powers of the Council, granted by the act of incorporation, and that it...   Cases  
Carrington's Ex'rs v. Belt 6 Munf. 374, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 12, 1819) 1819 1. A testator vested in his Executors his whole estate to be by them divided, among his heirs from time to time, as they might think most conducive to the interest of his estate and family--By another clause he empowered them to sell his landed interests in a certain undivided estate, and in the State of Kentucky. According to the...   Cases  
Castanedo v. Toll 6 Mart.(o.s.) 557, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.   Cases  
Chapman v. Dixon's Adm'x 4 H. & J. 527, Court of Appeals of Maryland (June 01, 1819) 1819 In an action of assumpsit against an administratrix, she pleaded the act of limitations; and to avoid the bar the plaintiff proved, that immediately preceding the institution of the suit, he presented his account to the defendant, who said she did not wish to see it; that she would pay all just claims against the estate of the deceased, as soon as...   Cases  
Cheney ads. Lubbock 1 Nott & McC. 444, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1819) 1819 All marriage settlements, whether made before or after marriage, must be recorded in the Secretary of State's office. Marriage Settlements made since 1785, must be recorded within three months from their execution.   Cases  
Com. v. Cohen 2 Va.Cas. 158, General Court of Virginia (June 01, 1819) 1819 After a verdict convicting a prisoner of a Felony, a plea in arrest of judgment, that he has not been examined for the offence by a Court of competent jurisdiction, (alledging that the Corporation Court, by which he was examined, has no criminal jurisdiction,) ought to be over-ruled; because the said plea suggests matter making no part of the...   Cases  
Com. v. Gaines 2 Va.Cas. 172, General Court of Virginia (November 01, 1819) 1819 By the first clause of the seventh section of the Act 1 Rev. Code, 1792, ch. 136, all treasons, misprisions, &c. and other offences against the Commonwealth, except piracies and felonies on the high seas, though committed beyond the territorial limits of the Commonwealth, are indictable and punishable in the General Court; the words in any...   Cases  
Com. v. Johnson Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (May 01, 1819) 1819 Francis Johnson, in his lifetime, appealed from the settlement of his accounts, as sheriff, with the Commonwealth, by the auditor-general and treasurer of the state, made on the 4th April 1814, reporting a sum due to the Commonwealth of $219.90. On his death, his executrix was substituted. It is not alleged that there is any error in the...   Cases  
Com. v. Moore 2 Va.Cas. 155, General Court of Virginia (June 01, 1819) 1819 The Court is unanimously of opinion, and doth decide, that the Superior Court of Law of Dinwiddie county hath not jurisdiction to try and determine the offence stated in the Presentment; but, that the said Presentment ought to be by that Court certified to some Justice of the Peace of and for the county of Dinwiddie, to be by him acted on,...   Cases  
Cordle's Adm'r v. Cordle's Ex'r 6 Munf. 455, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (December 17, 1819) 1819 1. A testator (whose Will was dated in 1805,) directed the residue of his estate to be kept together until his son W. C. arrived to 21 years, and then that an equal division of all his personal property be made between his sons W. C. and D. C.: and if either of his said sons died without lawful heir, his surviving brother should inherit all...   Cases  
Cowan v. Green 3 Mur. 569, Supreme Court of North Carolina (November 01, 1819) 1819 A case being sent to this Court upon a particular point, and this Court upon looking into the record discovering that there were other material points arising in the case and connected with its merits, declined deciding the point sent up, and awarded a new trial, that all the circumstances relating to the points discovered by this Court, might be...   Cases  
Cuvillier v. McDonogh 6 Mart.(o.s.) 564, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.   Cases  
De Armas v. Hampton 6 Mart.(o.s.) 567, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the second district. [For subsequent opinions, see 8 Mart. (O. S.) 432;11 Mart. (O. S.) 552.]   Cases  
Den v. Vancleve 5 N.J.L. 589, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (September 01, 1819) 1819 1. Ejectment; trial at bar, by special jury; verdict for defendant; and motion for new trial. 2. Testamentary capacity. 3. Examination on voir dire of a witness, touching his discretion and knowledge. 4. Declarations of testator, of his intentions respecting his will; evidence on question of capacity and fraud. In ejectment. This action was tried...   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Donaldson v. Rust 6 Mart.(o.s.) 260, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.   Cases  
Douglass' Adm'r v. Stevens 2 Del.Cas. 489, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Delaware (June 11, 1819) 1819 Writ of error to the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.   Cases  
Drayton ads. Wells 1 Nott & McC. 409, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1819) 1819 Parol evidence of what a witness swore, on a former trial of the same case, (who is present, but has forgotten what he swore) is not admissible; nor can the statement, in the Judge's opinion, granting this new trial, be read, to prove what the witness swore to, or the state of the facts on which the first verdict was set aside. The testimony of a...   Cases  
Ex parte Leland 1 Nott & McC. 460, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1819) 1819 The office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance, is the proper place to record Mortgages of leasehold estates.   Cases  
Ex parte Stagg 1 Nott & McC. 405, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1819) 1819 The general rule, that the law will not allow fractions of a day, applies rather to legal proceedings, or to legal diligence, than to questions of right, unconnected with them. Two Judgments or Executions of the same day, neither shall have the preference; but of vested rights, acquired by operation of law, or by contract, it is otherwise: And to...   Cases  
Fouque v. Vigniaud 6 Mart.(o.s.) 423, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New Orleans.   Cases  
Girod v. Lewis 6 Mart.(o.s.) 559, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.   Cases  
Gomez v. Bonneval 6 Mart.(o.s.) 656, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the first district.   Cases  
Gordon's Ex'x v. Goodwin & Beggs 2 Nott & McC. 70, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 Where a party sues in the right of another, as Executor, &c. the defendant, if he wish to make any objection, because others are not joined, he must plead it in abatement, and the court will not grant a nonsuit; but if he sue in his own right, the non-joinder of others may be the cause of nonsuit. Where a father purchases property with money out of...   Cases  
Gravier v. Livingston 6 Mart.(o.s.) 281, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the first district. The plaintiffs, as heirs of Bertrand Gravier, claimed three-fourths of the batture, of the faubourg St. Mary, possessed by the defendants, vendees of John Gravier, a co-heir of the plaintiffs. The petition stated that the plaintiffs, three in number, and John Gravier, were the only brothers and sisters...   Cases  
Guy v. Hall 3 Mur. 150, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 The declarations or confessions of the person making them, are evidence against such person and all claiming under him by a subsequent title, and for the plainest reasons. Truth is the object of all trials, and a person interested to declare the contrary, is not supposed to make a statement less favorable to himself than the truth will warrant; at...   Cases  
Hambleton's Ex'r v. Hayward 4 H. & J. 443, Court of Appeals of Maryland (June 01, 1819) 1819 It is in the power of a debtor to sell and convey his property, and to deliver possession, and such sale, if bona fide, is valid. The execution of a bill of sale of personal property, acknowledged and recorded agreeably to the act of 1729, ch 8, vests in the party the same interest he would have obtained, if the possession had accompanied the sale....   Cases  
Hannie v. Browder 6 Mart.(o.s.) 14, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the third district.   Cases  
Haskell v. Keen 2 Nott & McC. 160, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1819) 1819 A bond was given by two obligors, to three obligees, one of the obliligees (A.) who had received the property, for which the bond had been given, gave the obligors a bond of indemnity. Query? If it be a release? The bond of indemnity is an acknowledgment on the part of A. that he had received the value for which the original bond was given, and...   Cases  
Hood v. Archer 2 Nott & McC. 149, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1819) 1819 Plaintiff's wife, with others, was entitled, under the act for the distribution of intestate's estates, to a share of real estate; and a writ of partition, under the Act of Assembly, was sued out, and an order for the sale of the property was obtained, and the purchase money paid into the hands of the sheriff, according to the order: The wife then...   Cases  
Inhabitants of Dedham v. Inhabitants of Natick 16 Mass. 135, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (October 01, 1819) 1819 The settlement of a widow, acquired by her after the death of her husband, is communicated to her infant children. ASSUMPSIT for expenses incurred by the plaintiffs, in the support of _ Edmunds. The action was submitted to the determination of the Court, upon the following case agreed by the parties. The pauper mentioned in the plaintiff's...   Cases  
Inhabitants of Medway v. Inhabitants of Needham 16 Mass. 157, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (January 01, 1819) 1819 A marriage, which is good by the laws of the country where it is entered into, is valid in any other country; and although it should appear that the parties went into another state to contract such marriage, with a view to evade the laws of their own country; the marriage in the foreign state will nevertheless be valid in the country where the...   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Inhabitants of Milford v. Inhabitants of Bellingham 16 Mass. 108, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (September 01, 1819) 1819 The Court stopped Lincoln, who was to have argued for the defendants, and observed that the declarations objected to were in the nature of facts, tending to show the intentions of the parties in certain transactions, which were substantiated by other evidence; and so may be considered as constituting a part of the res gestæ. The fact to be proved...   Cases  
Jacocks v. Gilliam 3 Mur. 47, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 A parish register of marriages, births and deaths, kept pursuant to the act of 1715, is good evidence to prove pedigree, and that the several persons, whose pedigree is thus proved, are within the savings of the statute of limitations. Tenant in tail aliens, and in his conveyance, he, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators,...   Cases  
James v. McWilliams 6 Munf. 301, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (February 19, 1819) 1819 1. A testator gave certain parts of his estate to his two daughters, with a proviso, that, should either of them die without lawful issue, her part should go to the other. This was a good limitation over, in the event of the death of either, without lawful issue living at the time of her death. 2. In a case agreed, the...   Cases  
JOHN B. NOVION, plaintiff in error, v. ABRAHAM S. HALLETT, defendant in error. 16 Johns. 327, Court for the Correction of Errors of New York (January 01, 1819) 1819 No action at common law lies for an illegal capture on the high seas, as prize of war; and no irregularity or misconduct of the captor, in the subsequent disposition of the prize, can confer jurisdiction as to the original taking, or is, in itself, a ground of action at common law. Jurisdiction, in cases of prize, and of every thing incidental, and...   Cases  
Jourdan v. Williams 6 Mart.(o.s.) 659, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the first district.   Cases  
Kenny v. Marsh 2 A.K.Marsh. 46, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 18, 1819) 1819 ON A WRIT OF ERROR TO REVERSE A DECREE OF THE BOURBON CIRCUIT COURT. The sheriff of Bourbon county seized and sold the tract of land on which Kenny resided, by virtue of sundry executions in the names of Marsh and others, against the said Kenny, amounting in all to the sum of $400.50. Marsh became the purchaser at the sheriff's sale aforesaid, and...   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Key v. Allen 3 Mur. 523, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 It is laid down in the English books, that if the principal Jury omit to find matter which goes to the very point of the issue, and upon which, if they had found a false verdict, an attaint would lie by the party injured, such matter cannot be supplied by writ of enquiry; because thereby the party may lose his action of attaint, which will not lie...   Cases  
Killian v. Watt 3 Mur. 167, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 If the cause of action had accrued to the wife after she came of age, and before her marriage, the statute began to run, and the subsequent coverture could not stop it. No deduction can be made from the facts in this case, which will, in point of law, entitle the Plaintiff to a new trial. For if the hiring was from year to year, and nothing was...   Cases  
Mackey v. Collins' Ex'rs 2 Nott & McC. 186, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1819) 1819 Defendant by deed granted, bargained, sold, and released, to the plaintiff a tract of land, to hold in fee, and by the said deed bound himself, his heirs, executors, &c. to warrant and for ever defend the premises to the plaintiff, his heirs, &c. against every person whomsoever, lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof. The...   Cases  
MacNair v. Kennon's Ex'rs 3 Mur. 139, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 The bill is brought by Ebenezer Mac Nair, surviving partner of Richard Kennon & Co. against the executors and executrix of Richard Kennon, for an account and settlement of the partnership transactions. The bill was filed in October, 1800, and in April, 1802, the Defendants entered a plea of the statute of limitations, which states, that in April,...   Cases  
Maddox v. State, to Use of Swann 4 H. & J. 539, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1819) 1819 It has been established, that in order to take advantage of the act of limitations it must be pleaded. The court concur with the court below in the opinions expressed in the several bills of exceptions. JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.   Cases  
Maurin v. Toustin 6 Mart.(o.s.) 496, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.   Cases  
McKay v. Hendon 3 Mur. 21, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 The brothers and sister of the half blood of the maternal side to William Salter, who died intestate, have filed this petition by their guardian, to obtain an account and distribution of that part of the intestate's personal estate, which he acquired under the will of his father, Richard Salter. The three children of the testator survived him, and...   Cases  
Metayer v. Metayer 6 Mart.(o.s.) 16, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.   Cases  
Missroon v. Waldo 2 Nott & McC. 76, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 A sound price implies a sound commodity; and though the discovery be made in a foreign port, yet an action will be supported to recover back for the failure of consideration. It is not only the civil law rule, but the view of the common law, which has always been adopted in this state, ut semble.   Cases  
Moore v. Waller's Heirs 1 A.K.Marsh. 488, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (April 27, 1819) 1819 ON AN APPEAL FROM A DECREE OF THE BOURBON CIRCUIT COURT. In June, 1791, Edward Waller made and published his last will and testament, in writing, containing various provisions in relation to the disposition of his estate. And having departed this life, his will was duly proven before the Bourbon county court, and, at the January term, 1792,...   Cases  
Moore v. White 4 H. & J. 548, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1819) 1819 From the proceedings it appears that the estate of the lunatic was amply sufficient for his support. Of this the trustee must have been sensible when he consented to the order of the chancellor of the 28th of October 1802, the plain meaning of which is, that the trustee should use the property of the lunatic as his own, without being held to...   Cases  
Nadaud v. Mitchell 6 Mart.(o.s.) 688, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1819) 1819 Appeal from the court of the first district.   Cases  
Norfleet v. Southall 3 Mur. 189, Supreme Court of North Carolina (May 01, 1819) 1819 Bill for the specific execution of a contract. A and B, having at their joint expense, built a set of mills, A agreed to convey to B, his moiety of the mills, upon B's paying to him, the sum which the mills cost him; and it was further agreed, that four persons, then named by the parties, should determine this sum. A then declared, that he would no...   Cases  
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