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French's executrix v. Bank of Columbia
French’s executrix v. Bank of Columbia. Notice of nonpayment. The indorser of a promissory note for the accommodation of the maker, is entitled to strict notice. If the drawer of a bill of exchange, at the time of drawing, has a right to ex
Moliere's Lessee v. Noe
Moliere’s Lessee v. Noe. Judicial sale. The purchaser of lands of an intestate, sold by an order of an orphans' :nurt, holds them dia charged from the lien of a judgment obtained against the intestate in his lifetime. Ejectment, for a house
Conframp v. Bunel
*Conframp et al. v. Bunel. Lex loei contractus. A contract is governed by the law of the place where it was made. Where the lex loci contractus protects a party from execution, on a judgment upon a contract, he will not be liable to arrest
Hopkirk v. Bell
*Hopkirk v. Bell. Statute of limitations. The treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, prevents the operation of the act of limitations of Virginia, upon British debts, contracted before that treaty. An agent for collect
Dixon's Executors v. Ramsay's Executors
Dixon’s Executors v. Ramsay’s Executors. Foreign executors. — Conflict of laws. As. executor cannot maintain a suit, in the District of Columbia, upon letters testamentary, granted in a foreign country. All rights to the testator’s personal
Simms v. Slacum
Simms and Wise v. Slacum. Insolvent discharge. — Fraud. A discharge from the prison rules, under the insolvent act of Virginia, although obtained by fraud, is a discharge in due course of law; and upon such discharge, no action can be susta
Wilson v. Codman's Executor
Wilson v. Codman’s Executor. Pleading — Set-off.—Death of party. In a declaration, the averment that the assignment of a promissory note was for value received is-an immaterial one, and need not be proved. If the defendant plead the bankrup
Levy v. Gadsby
Levy v. Gadsby. Usury. If A. lend money to B., who puta it out at usurious interest, and agrees to pay to A. the same-rate of interest which he is receiving upon A.’s money, this is usury between A. and B., and anindorser of B.’s note to A.
Faw v. Roberdeau's Executor
Faw v. Roberdeau’s Executor. Statute of limitations. ‘If an act of limitations have a clause “ saving to all persons non compos mentis, femes covert, infants imprisoned, or out of the commonwealth, three years after their several disabiliti
United States v. Hooe
United States v. Hooe et al. Priority of the United States. — Costs. The United States have no lien on the real estate of their debtor, until suit brought, or a notorious* insolvency or bankruptcy has taken place; or, being unable to pay al
Winchester v. Hackley
Winchester v. Hackley. Set-off. A creditor upon open account, who has assigned his claim to a third person, with the assent of the debtor, is still competent to maintain an action at law in his own name, against the debtor, for the use of t
United States v. Passmore
*APRIL TERM, 1804. Present — Washington, Justice, and Peters, District Judge. United States v. Thomas Passmore. Rerjwry. — Repeal of statute. Perjury, under the bankrupt law of 1800, was not indictable, under the act of 80th April 1790, § 1
Ogden v. Blackledge
*Ogden, administrator of Cornell, v. Blackledge, executor of Salter. Gonstitmbional law. — Decla/ratory act. — Statute of l/vmitaúons. The 9th section of the act of assembly of North Carolina, passed in 1716, which directs that unless the c
Faw v. Marsteller
Faw v. Marsteller. Depreciation. In a deed, made in the year 1779, of land, rendering an annual rent of 26?. current money of “Virginia for ever, the rents are not to be reduced by the scale of depreciation, but the actual annual value of t
Crawford v. Willing
*DECEMBER TERM, 1803. Crawford et al. v. Willing et al. Interest. — Pa/rtners. Interest is due on the ascertained balance of an account, from the time of a demand of payment. In case of a war, the payment of interest on a debt due by a citi
Sharpless v. Welsh
*SEPTEMBER TERM, 1803. Sharpless v. Welsh et al. Trust. Where a bill is remitted, with directions to appropriate the proceeds among certain creditors, in designated proportions, the party receiving it beeomes a trustee for the creditors, an
Humphries v. Blight's assignees
Humphries v. Blight’s assignees. Bankruptcy. — Set-off. Where the holder of a negotiable note indorses it to a third person, after a commission of bankruptcy has issued against the payee, the indorsee may prove under the commission, but sub
Wood v. Owings
GABRIEL WOOD, original defendant, v. WILLIAM OWINGS AND JOB SMITH, assignees of William Robb, a bankrupt, original plaintiff. A deed of lands in Maryland, signed, sealed, and delivered on the 30th of May, and knowledged on the 14th of June,
Mandeville v. Riddle
MANDEVILLE AND JAMESON v. JOSEPH RIDDLE AND CO. In Virginia, an indorsee of a promissory note can not maintain an action against a remote indorser, for want of privity. Error from the circuit court of the district of Columbia sitting at Ale
Wilson v. Lenox
WILSON v. LENOX AND MAITLAND. A declaration in debt, under the law of Virginia, upon a protested bill of exchange for the principal, interest, damages and cost of protest, must aver the amount of those costs of protest. Quere, whether if th
United States v. Hooe
UNITED STATES v. R. T. HOOE AND OTHERS. Under the judiciary act of 1789, in chancery cases, a statement of facts must accompany the transcript. This provision was revived by the repeal of the act of February 1801. This was a writ of error t
Thompson v. Jameson
THOMPSON v. JAMESON. An action of debt for £. 860 12 1, founded on a decree in chancery, is not supported by a decree for £ 860 12 1 with interest from a certain day to the day of rendering the decree. But the variance is fatal. Upon an att
Burd v. Smith
*JANUARY TERM, 1802. Present, Smith and Brackeneidge, Justices of the Supreme Court, and Coxe, Rush and Addison, Presidents of the Common Pleas. Burd, Plaintiff in error, v. Smith, Lessee of Fitzsimons et al. , Assignment for the benefit of
Turner v. Fendall
TURNER v. FENDALL. A sheriff makes the money upon a fi fa at the suit of A. vs. B and afterwards a fi fa. against A is put into his hands, he cannot levy it upon the money of A made by the fi fa. of A v. B for it does not become the goods a
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