Montgomery County Law Reporter, Volume 17Freeland Gotwalts Hobson, John Weiler Bickel, Abraham Hunsicker Hendricks, Albert Rosenberger Place, Nelson P. Fegley Montgomery Bar Association, 1901 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 192 - ... with the intent and purpose on his part to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors, or any of them, shall be null and void as against the creditors of such debtor, except as to purchasers in good faith and for a present fair consideration...
Page 59 - Southern to control the election of directors, and this it has done. The directors now control the road through their own agents and executive officers, and these agents and officers are in no way under the direction of the Missouri Pacific Company. 'If they or the directors act contrary to the wishes of the Missouri Pacific Company, that company has no power to prevent it, except by the election, at the proper time and in the proper way, of other directors, or by some judicial proceeding for the...
Page 86 - ... to the only proper use, benefit, and behoof of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever.
Page 175 - No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he may have been elected, be eligible to any office the election to which is vested in the legislature, nor shall be appointed to any office of trust or profit which shall have been created or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term.
Page 140 - And as to my worldly estate, and all the property, real, personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease, I devise, bequeath, and dispose thereof in the manner following, to wit : — Imprimis.
Page 133 - That hereafter, the widow or the children of any decedent dying within this Commonwealth, testate or intestate, may retain either real or personal property belonging to said estate to the value of three hundred dollars, and the same shall not be sold, but suffered to remain for the use of the widow and family...
Page 192 - That all conveyances, transfers, assignments, or encumbrances of his property, •or any part thereof, made or given by a person adjudged a bankrupt under the provisions of this act, subsequent to the passage of this act, and within four months prior to the filing of the petition, with the intent and purpose on his part to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors, or any of them...
Page 142 - This is but one of the hundreds of expressions of the cardinal rule in the interpretation of wills, to find the testator's intent, and by that is meant his actual, personal, individual intent, not a mere presumptive conventional intent inferred from the use of a set phrase or a familiar form of words.
Page 210 - Now, therefore, be it and it is hereby " 'Resolved, by the board of directors of the...
Page 114 - The prevention or restraint of the commission or continuance of acts contrary to law, and prejudicial to the interests of the community, or the rights of individuals.