Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, Volume 33Soney & Sage, 1881 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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administrator agreement alleged amount answer appears appellant assessment assignment Bank Barb bill bond and mortgage C. E. Gr chancellor charge Chetwood claim complainant complainant's consideration contract conveyance conveyed corporation costs court of chancery court of equity creditors Crosland daughter death debt deceased decree deed defendant easement entitled evidence execution executor fact filed foreclosure fraud fraudulent give given grant grantor Heintze horse railroad husband injunction insolvent interest invest Jersey City John judgment land legacy lien ment Morris Canal mort mortgaged premises mortgagor Newark orphans court owner paid parties payment person petitioner plainant possession proceedings proof purchase question R. R. Co raceway railroad company real estate received relief respondent Ruckman says sheriff's sale sold Standard Oil Co statute Stew Sturges suit taxes testamentary capacity testator's testatrix testimony thereof tion trust usury widow wife
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Page 156 - Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing.
Page 156 - Equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced; and therefore from the beginning of this jurisdiction there was always a limitation...
Page 233 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 670 - The legislature shall not pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or depriving a party of any remedy for enforcing a contract which existed when the contract was made.
Page 661 - ... any interest in or concerning them, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of 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...
Page 8 - ... or in any action or proceeding for divorce on account of adultery, (except to prove the fact of marriage,) or in any action or proceeding for or on account of criminal conversation.
Page 617 - The testimony proves that after the execution of the will and before the death of the testator, both Belford and Elisha knew its contents.
Page 225 - In paragraph fifth of the will, as we have seen, the testator gave, devised and bequeathed all the rest, residue and remainder of his estate to...
Page 189 - 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.
Page 556 - it is not necessary to an equitable estoppel that the party should design to mislead. If his act was calculated to mislead, and actually has misled, another acting upon it in good faith, and exercising reasonable care and diligence under all the circumstances, that is enough.