Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature and in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors in the State of New-York, Volumen7

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Página 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Página 356 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Página 192 - The very denial of goods to him that has a right to demand them is an actual conversion, and not only evidence of it, as has been holden ; for what is a conversion, but an assuming upon one's self the property and right of disposing of another's goods ? And he that takes upon himself to detain another man's goods from him without cause takes upon himself the right of disposing of them.
Página 403 - It is a well-settled principle of law that the acts of such persons are valid when they concern the public, or the rights of third persons who have an interest in the act done: People v.
Página 440 - THURLOW said, that to set aside a conveyance, there must be an inequality, so strong, gross and manifest, that it must be impossible to state it to a man of common sense without producing an exclamation at the inequality of it (1).
Página 196 - PECKHAM, after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court. Two questions arise in this case in regard to the liability of the insurers upon the policy in suit : the one being whether what took place before the vessel left her berth in New York amounted to a collision within the meaning of the policy ; the other being whether, in case...
Página 47 - On principle it might well be questioned, whether this rule can be applied to a place not completely invested by land as well as by sea. If we examine the reasoning on which is founded the right to intercept and confiscate supplies designed for a blockaded town, it will be difficult to resist the conviction, that its extension to towns invested by sea only is an unjustifiable encroachment on the rights of neutrals.
Página 368 - No correct civilian, and especially no proud admirer of the ancient republic (if any such then existed), could have reflected on this interference with private rights and pending suits without disgust and indignation; and we are rather surprised to find that, under the violent and...
Página 368 - It was admitted that the promise declared on was of the same kind with those mentioned in the statute, but the court agreed unanimously that the statute was to be read by a transposition of the words, for that it was not to be presumed that the Act had a retrospect to take away an action to which the plaintiff was then entitled, and that the other construction would make the Act repugnant to common justice.
Página 290 - An, ACT concerning the registering and recording of ships or vessels,''' RP of Newburyport in the State of Massachusetts, Merchant, having taken or subscribed the oath required by the said act, and having sworn that he...

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