The Luzerne Legal Register, Volume 141886 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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2-story frame acres assumpsit Att'y Attorney auditor borough Brundage Certiorari Charles city of Wilkes-Barre claims or demands Common Pleas confirmation of sale corner of lot Court of Common Court of Luzerne COURT SALE DARLING deceased defendant delay demands to present estate are requested exposed to public filed following real estate frame dwelling house George granted H. B. PAYNE Hahn Halsey Hazleton Henry HEREBY GIVEN Hines Hughestown Jacob James John Jones Joseph judgment Kingston township Kisner Kline LATE OF Wilkes-Barre Lehman township Letters of administration Letters testamentary lot of land Luzerne county Lynch Martin McLean Michael Monday named estate NOTICE IS HEREBY o'clock A. M. O'Neill Orphans outbuildings Patrick payment perches persons indebted Peter Pittston place of beginning plaintiff Pleas of Luzerne Plymouth Plymouth township public sale road sent Sheriff Shonk Shortz Solicitor sons indebted stone corner street thence thereon Thomas undersigned Ward White Haven William Wyoming
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Page 436 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 179 - It is supported by great names, — by names which have all the titles to consideration that virtue, intelligence, and office can bestow. No tribunal can approach the decision of this question without feeling a just and real respect for that opinion which is sustained by such authority; but it is the province of this court...
Page 218 - The person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 436 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Page 310 - Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, entitled -"An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith...
Page 330 - The test," says Judge Duncan in Swan v. Scott, 11 Serg. & R. 164, "whether a demand connected with an illegal transaction is capable of being enforced at law, is whether the plaintiff requires the aid of the illegal transaction to establish his case.
Page 108 - In all cases of summary conviction in this Commonwealth, or of judgment in suit for a penalty before a magistrate, or court not of record, either party may appeal to such court of record as may be prescribed by law, upon allowance of the appellate court or judge thereof upon cause shown* SEC.
Page 326 - The supreme court, and the several courts of common pleas, shall, beside the powers heretofore usually exercised by them, have the powers of a court of chancery, so far as relates to the perpetuating of testimony, the obtaining of evidence from places not within the State, and the care of the persons and estates of those who are non compotes mentis. -And the legislature shall vest in the said courts such other powers to grant relief in...
Page 372 - ... of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not less than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
Page 179 - It presents, therefore, a case for the application of a long-known and wellestablished principle in social science, and this statute simply extends the law so as to meet this new development of commercial progress.