Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Volume 7F. Lucas, Jr., 1838 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 438 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from which they are taken...
Page 439 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 163 - June (1677) all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 255 - ... then this obligation to be void, and of none effect; otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
Page 119 - But there are other trusts which are cognizable in a court of law ; as deposits, and all manner of bailments ; and especially that implied contract, so highly beneficial and useful, of having undertaken to account for money received to another's _ use, which is the ground of an action on the case almost as universally remedial as a bill in equity.
Page 426 - Bartlett,* to mean a legal and known insolvency, manifested by some notorious act of the debtor, pursuant to law. This was giving to the world some reasonable and definite test by which to ascertain the existence of the latent and dangerous preference given by law to the United States. In this last case, the effects of an insolvent debtor, duly attached in June, were considered not to be liable to the claim of...
Page 169 - ... it is prima facie, though not absolutely conclusive, evidence that the money came to the hands of both ; that...
Page 97 - Frederick Douglass, I do declare to be henceforth free, manumitted, and discharged from all manner of servitude to me, my executors and administrators forever. "In witness whereof, I the said Hugh Auld, have hereunto Set my hand and...
Page 441 - Congress have, therefore, declared the effect of the record, by declaring what faith and credit shall be given to it. It remains only, then, to inquire, (he adds,) in every case, what is the effect of a judgment in the state where it is rendered.
Page 482 - Dougherty at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant, bargain and sell unto the said...