Kentucky Opinions: Containing the Unreported Opinions of the Court of AppealsCentral law book Company (incorporated), 1912 - Kentucky |
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adjudged Adm'r adverse possession agreement alleged amended amount answer appellant appellant's appellee appellee's assignment authorized averment bond Bush cause of action cause remanded chancellor CHANCERY COURT charged CIRCUIT COURT claim Commonwealth contract conveyance conveyed county court court of equity creditors debt debtor deceased deed defendant demurrer dollars enforce entitled equity evidence execution fact failed filed fraud further proceedings guardian heirs held husband indictment instruction interest Isaac Shelby issue JUDGE COFER JUDGE ELLIOTT JUDGE LINDSAY JUDGE PRYOR Judgment affirmed judgment is reversed jury land levy liable lien Louisville ment mortgage nulla bona offense OPINION BY JUDGE paid parties payment person petition plaintiff pleadings possession promise proof prove purchase money question real estate reason record recover rendered reversed and cause secure sell sheriff sold statute sued suit surety sustained testator thereof tion tract trial trustee wife witness
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Page 34 - ... upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be In writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 265 - When an offense involves the commission of, or an attempt to commit, a private injury, and is described with sufficient certainty in other respects to identify the act, an erroneous allegation as to the person injured, or intended to be injured, is not material.
Page 753 - The generality of a title is therefore no objection to it, so long as it is not made a cover to legislation incongruous in itself, and which by no fair intendment can be considered as having a necessary or proper connection.
Page 45 - Know all men by these presents, that I, John McLoughlin, of Fort Vancouver, in the Territory of Oregon, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, to me in hand paid by...
Page 734 - But acquiescence, to have the effect of an admission, must exhibit some act of the mind, and amount to voluntary demeanor or conduct of the party. And whether it is acquiescence in the conduct or in the language of others, it must plainly appear that such conduct was fully known, or the language fully understood by the party, before any inference can be drawn from his passiveness or silence.
Page 492 - That the party objecting to the decision must except at the time the decision is made, and time may be given to reduce the exception to writing, but not beyond the term.
Page 151 - The only ground upon which a judgment shall be arrested is that the facts stated in the indictment do not constitute a public offense within the jurisdiction of the court.
Page 45 - That the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of Five Dollars, ($5.00) lawful money of the United States of America, to him in hand paid by the party of the second part...
Page 817 - Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a court of equity properly includes all acts, omissions and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence, justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another.
Page 445 - AND, first, the party ravished may give evidence upon oath, and is in law a competent witness ; but the credibility of her testimony, and how far forth she is to be believed, must be left to the jury upon the circumstances of fact that concur in that testimony.