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Page 96 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Page 96 - Where the holder of an instrument payable to his order transfers it for value without indorsing it, the transfer vests in the transferee such title as the transferor had therein, and the transferee acquires, in addition, the right to have the indorsement of the transferor. But for the purpose of determining whether the transferee is a holder in due course, the negotiation takes effect as of the time when the indorsement is actually made.
Page 291 - States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State or Territory where Opinion of tbe Court. such land is located...
Page 292 - Indians to whom allotments have been made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the state or territory in which they may reside...
Page 202 - Witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of twenty-one hundred dollars, to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part...
Page 267 - No suit or action on this policy, for the recovery of any claim, shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements, nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 17 - ... or which violates the manifest intention of the parties to the agreement, equity will correct the mistake so as to produce a conformity of the instrument to the agreement.
Page 295 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 17 - Neither party to an obligation can be compelled specifically •to perform it, unless the other party thereto has performed, or is compellable specifically to perform, everything to which the former is entitled under the same obligation, either completely or nearly so, together with full compensation for any want of entire performance.
Page 222 - It is a rule as old as the law, and never more to be respected than now, that no one shall be personally bound until he has had his day in court...
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| Title | The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 148 National reporter system: State series |
| Contributors | Iowa. Supreme Court, Michigan. Supreme Court, Minnesota. Supreme Court, Nebraska. Supreme Court, North Dakota. Supreme Court, Wisconsin. Supreme Court, South Dakota. Supreme Court, Dakota Territory. Supreme Court, West Publishing Company |
| Publisher | West Publishing Company, 1914 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
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