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Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1801

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

5 U.S. 117 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Family Law 1801

Resler v. Shehee

JACOB RESLER v. JAMES SHEHEE. After the first term next following an office judgment, in Virginia, it is a matter of mere discretion in the court whether they will admit a special plea to be filed to set aside that judgment. This was a writ

5 U.S. 110 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1801

United States v. Schooner Peggy

UNITED STATES v. SCHOONER PEGGY. A final condemnation in an inferior court of admiralty, where a right of appeal exists and has been claimed, is not a definitive condemnation within the meaning of the 4th article of the convention with Fran

5 U.S. 103 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1801

Wilson v. Mason

GEORGE WILSON v. RICHARD MASON, devisee of george mason, and RICHARD MASON, devisee of george mason, v. GEORGE WILSON, Waste and unappropriated lands in Kentucky, in the year 1780, could not be lawfully appropriated by survey alone, without

5 U.S. 45 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a · Pennsylvania 1801

Austyn v. McLure

*SEPTEMBER TERM, 1801. Austyn v. McLure. Consideration. The smallest spark of benefit or accommodation is sufficient, to create a valid consideration for a promise. Case, on a special assumpsit. The declaration contained three counts, of ea

4 U.S. 198 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1801

Talbot v. Seeman

SILAS TALBOT v. HANS FRED. SEEMAN. Salvage allowed to a United States ship of war, for the re-capture of a Hamburgh vessel out of the hands of the French, (France and Hamburgh being neutral to each other) on the ground that she was in dange

5 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1801

Penn v. Butler

Penn v. Butler. Butler v. Penn. Penn v. Penn. Same v. Same. Possession of securities. The survivor of two joint obligees, is, at law, entitled to the possession of the joint securities; and a court of equity will not interfere with the disp

4 U.S. 308 United States Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1801

Hurst's Lessee v. Jones

*MAY TERM, 1801. Present — Tilghman, Chief Justice, and Basset and Griffiths, Circuit Judges. Hurst’s Lessee v. Jones. Costs of former suit. A defendant cannot, be compelled to proceed to trial, until payment of the costs of a former action

4 U.S. 307 United States Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights · Pennsylvania 1801

Commonwealth v. Dallas

Commonwealth v. Dallas, Attorney of the United States, &c. Recorder of Philadelphia. The Recorder of the city of Philadelphia is not a judge, within the meaning of the 8th section of the 2d article of the constitution of the state of Pennsy

4 U.S. 200 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Read opinion
Outcome n/a · Pennsylvania 1801

Wainwright v. Crawford

* Wainwright et al. v. Crawford. Master of vessel. The master of a vessel may bind his owners, personally, by borrowing money to make necessary repairs to the vessel, in a foreign port, if the lenders, after due inquiry, did not know that t

4 U.S. 197 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Read opinion

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