The York Legal Record, Volume 12

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York Legal Record Print, 1899 - Law reports, digests, etc
A record of cases argued and determined in the various courts of York County; together with reports and abstracts of the most important cases adjudicated throughout the Commonwealth.
 

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Page 166 - When any such person or corporation becomes beneficially entitled, in possession or expectancy, to any property or the income thereof by any such transfer, whether made before or after the passage of this act.
Page 36 - And it has been held, that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though they are not to be threatened or imprisoned, the judges are not bound to wait for them, but may carry them round the circuit from town to town in a cart.
Page 166 - State, or any interest therein or income therefrom, which shall be transferred by deed, grant, sale or gift made in contemplation of the death of the grantor or bargainer or intended to take effect, in possession or enjoyment after such death, to any person or persons.
Page 166 - When the transfer is by will or by the intestate laws of this state from any person dying seized or possessed of the property while a resident of the state.
Page 161 - Grievances, who shall be charged with the hearing of all complaints which may be made in matters affecting the interests of the legal profession, and the practice of the law, and the administration of justice...
Page 10 - ... said a.cts shall be strictly pursued, and no penalty shall be inflicted, or anything done agreeably to the provisions of the common law, in such cases, further than shall be necessary for carrying such act or acts into effect.
Page 117 - September 9, 1898, this appeal came on to be heard and was argued by counsel, whereupon, upon due consideration, it is...
Page 58 - To constitute the coercion or duress which will be regarded as sufficient to make the payment involuntary, * * * there must be some actual or threatened exercise of power possessed, or believed to be possessed, by the party exacting or receiving the payment over the person or property of another, from which the latter has no other means of immediate relief than by making the payment.
Page 182 - Claims against a dead man's estate, which might have been made against himself, while living, are always subjects of just suspicion, and our books, from Graham v.
Page 7 - ... members, respectively, and nothing remains but to wind it up in such a manner as to do equity to creditors and between the members themselves.

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