Atlantic Reporter, Volume 16West Publishing Company, 1889 |
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... payment of the whole $ 12,000 ; claiming that , as he had survived his co- legatee , he , on attaining his majority , became entitled , by the true construc- tion of the will , to the whole fund . The defendants offered to pay him one ...
... payment of the whole $ 12,000 ; claiming that , as he had survived his co- legatee , he , on attaining his majority , became entitled , by the true construc- tion of the will , to the whole fund . The defendants offered to pay him one ...
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... PAYMENT OF PRICE . The specific performance of a contract which involves the payment of a price will not be decreed until the price shall be ascertained . 7. SAME . The contract mode of ascertaining the price must be pursued when it is ...
... PAYMENT OF PRICE . The specific performance of a contract which involves the payment of a price will not be decreed until the price shall be ascertained . 7. SAME . The contract mode of ascertaining the price must be pursued when it is ...
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... payment of the promissory note referred to . The solution of this question depends upon the construction to be placed on the clauses quoted from the will of Elizabeth A. Balls . If the will of Mrs. Balls should be held not to be an ...
... payment of the promissory note referred to . The solution of this question depends upon the construction to be placed on the clauses quoted from the will of Elizabeth A. Balls . If the will of Mrs. Balls should be held not to be an ...
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... payment of her debts . This position is wholly untenable . No such effect can possibly be given to these general words . In the recent case of White v . Kauffman , 66 Md . 92 , 5 Atl . Rep . 865 , this court said : " We have the ...
... payment of her debts . This position is wholly untenable . No such effect can possibly be given to these general words . In the recent case of White v . Kauffman , 66 Md . 92 , 5 Atl . Rep . 865 , this court said : " We have the ...
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... payment of the damages . He could not maintain it to enforce payment of the eight - ninths of the damages , because he had no title to said eight - ninths , and the persons entitled thereto were not parties in any way to the action ...
... payment of the damages . He could not maintain it to enforce payment of the eight - ninths of the damages , because he had no title to said eight - ninths , and the persons entitled thereto were not parties in any way to the action ...
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Page 577 - I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate, wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner...
Page 561 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner...
Page 360 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Page 296 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate.
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Page 328 - ... wherefore he prays judgment if the plaintiff ought further to maintain his action.