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Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law · Pennsylvania 1791

Little v. Dawson

*Little v. Dawson et al., Executors of Jones. Assumpsit. If services are rendered, merely in expectation of a legacy, without any contract, express or implied, an action cannot be maintained for them. Case, for services rendered by Jane Bit

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Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt · Pennsylvania 1791

Joy's Lessee v. Cossart

September Term, 1791. Joy’s Lessee, versus Cossart, et al. EJECTMENT for a heuse, in the city of Philadelphia. The Lessors of the plaintiff were assignees, under a commission of bankruptcy issued against one Christian Wirtz, of whom Doctor

2 U.S. 126 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Read opinion

Outcome n/a Family Law · Pennsylvania 1791

Respublica v. Lacaze

September Term, 1791. Respublica versus Lacaze. et. al. THIS was an action of debt in the debet et detinet, for £4000 sterling, equal to £. 6,666. 13. 8. currency, brought in the name of the commonwealth for the use of Lewis Lanoix, against

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Outcome n/a 1791

West v. Barnes

Auguft Term, 1791. West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al. ON the firft day of the term, Bradford prefented to the court, a writ, purporting to.be a writ of error, iflued out pf the oflice of the clerk of the circuit court for Rhode JJland

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Respublica v. Roberts

April Term, 1791. Respublica versus Roberts. THIS was an indictment for adultery, which had been found in the Quarter Sessions, of Bucks County. The woman was married; but the indictment did not state the defendant to be so; and, indeed, th

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Outcome n/a · Pennsylvania 1791

Douglass's Lessee v. Sanderson

April Term, 1791. Douglass's Lessee versus Sanderson. ON the trial of this cause, before Judge Bryan, at Nisi Prius, in Cumberland, in November 1790, the Plaintiff offered in evidence a deed, and to prove its execution by the hand writing o

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Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law · Pennsylvania 1791

Ingraham v. Gibbs

Ingraham, Indorsee v. Gibbs, et. al. THIS was an action brought on two Bills of Exchange; and upon the trial the following facts appeared :—The defendants were the consignees of Cornelius Schenkhcuse of Amsterdam, who had sent a considerabl

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Outcome n/a Employment Law · Pennsylvania 1791

Bond v. Haas's Executors

Bond versus Haas’s Executors. THIS was a Scire Facias on a mortgage, dated 15th August 1777, for the payment of £250. at four per cent, current money of Pennsylvania, in one year. At the time the mortgage was executed continental money was

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Outcome n/a · Pennsylvania 1791

Ricup v. Bixter

Ricup versus Bixter, et al. THE defence set up in his action was a tender of continental money, in 1783. As the proof respecting the date of the bills was not clear, the defendant’s counsel contended, that by the act of 3d April, 1781, no m

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Outcome n/a · Pennsylvania 1791

Frey v. Leeper

Frey versus Leeper. THE determination of this cause turned on the following point, which was submitted to the Court, to wit; whether goods, which, after being distrained for rent, had been replevied, and delivered to the plaintiff in replev

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Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law · Pennsylvania 1791

Sweeny's Lessee v. Toner

Sweeny's Lessee versus Toner. THE material facts, on the trial of this ejectment, appeared to be these: The defendant went into Northumberland County, in the year 1737, and made an improvement on a tract of land, which tract he afterwards e

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Outcome n/a Family Law · Pennsylvania 1791

Thompson v. Thompson

Thompson versus Thompson. LIBEL for a divorce a mensa et thoro, charging the defendant with various acts of cruelty, and indignities, that rendered the Libellant’s situation insupportable. Defendant, protestando, &c. pleaded, that before th

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Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate · Pennsylvania 1791

Scott v. Crosdale

Scott versus Crosdale. THIS was an action of Dower, brought in Bucks County, against the defendant, who had purchased lands, sold by the sheriff under a judgment obtained on a Scire Facias on a mortgage. The mortgage was executed by the hus

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Outcome n/a · Pennsylvania 1791

Leech v. Armitage

Leech versus Armitage. THIS was an action of trespass for cutting trees. The defendant pleaded Liberum Tenementum; and the plaintiff replied Liberum Tenementum suum absque hoc, &c. The trial came on at Nisi Prius, in Montgomery County, befo

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