North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Volume 87Nichols & Gorman, book and job printers, 1882 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. |
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administrator adverse possession Affirmed agent alleged amount answer apply attorney authority bond Buncombe county cause of action charge CHEROKEES cited and approved CIVIL ACTION tried claim commissioners complaint contract conveyed counsel court of equity creditors debt debtor deceased declared deed defendant defendant's docketed dollars entitled equity error evidence exception execution executor exemption facts Fall Term favor fee simple fendant filed fraud heirs held homestead Honor intention intestate Ired issue Jones judge judgment jury justice land liable lien lis pendens Lockhart matter ment Merrimon Messrs Moore county mortgage motion opinion paid parties Patton payment person plaintiff possession prisoner proof purchase Qualla Boundary question recover refused rendered RUFFIN rule sheriff sold Spring Term statute of limitations suit superior court testator thereof tion tract trial tried at Spring trust Venire de novo verdict wife witness
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Page 221 - All contracts or agreements made in violation of this section shall be void; and whenever any sum of money is advanced...
Page 301 - ... shall be and remain the sole and separate estate and property of such female, and shall not be liable for any debts, obligations or engagements of her husband, and may be devised and bequeathed, and with the written assent of her husband, conveyed by her as if she were unmarried.
Page 390 - If a person entitled to bring an action die before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survive, an action may be commenced by his representatives, after the expiration of that time, and within six months from his death.
Page 364 - No acknowledgment or promise is sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, by which to take the case out of the operation of this title, unless the same is contained in some writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby.
Page 408 - If a person against whom an action may be brought, die before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced against his executors or administrators, after the expiration of that time and within one year after the issuing of letters testamentary or of administration.
Page 121 - States, to be recovered by action of debt, in any court of record having cognizance thereof.
Page 470 - Hundred forty six with force and arms at and in the County of Sampson aforesaid in and upon one Alfred Flowers in the peace of God and of the State then and there being...
Page 3 - The order may be made whenever it appears to the judge, by the affidavit of the plaintiff, or some other person, that a sufficient cause of action exists, and that the case is one of those mentioned in section four hundred and seventy-nine.
Page 99 - That the furniture in the mansion and the money in the bank were, under these provisions, properly assessable to the relators is not seriously disputed. And I am unable to see why the money due upon the land contracts must not be assessed in the same way. The debts due upon these contracts are personal estate, the same as if they were due upon notes or bonds; and such personal estate may be said to exist where the obligations for payment are held.
Page 73 - Sec. 4. The provisions of sections one and two of this article shall not be so construed as to prevent a laborer's lien for work done and performed for the person claiming such exemption, or a mechanic's lien for work done on the premises.