Law of Real Property: Being a Complete Compendium of Real Estate Law, Embracing All Current Case Law, Carefully Selected, Thoroughly Annotated and Accurately Epitomized, Volume 1

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Emerson E. Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard
Ballard Publishing Company, 1892 - Real property

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Page 81 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 532 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 568 - Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department...
Page 299 - Section 172b, the husband has the management and control of the community personal property, with like absolute power of disposition, other than testamentary, as he has of his separate estate...
Page 222 - In this and similar cases the legislature alone can, and indeed frequently does, interpose, and compel the individual to acquiesce. But how does it interpose and compel ? Not by absolutely stripping the subject of his property in an arbitrary manner ; but by giving him a full indemnification and equivalent for the injury thereby sustained.
Page 522 - Trinity term, actions of account shall and may be brought and maintained against the executors and administrators of every guardian, bailiff, and receiver; and also by one joint tenant, and tenant in common, his executors and administrators, against the other, as bailiff for receiving more than comes to his just share or proportion...
Page 434 - ... to or the subject of which is real or personal property in this state...
Page 130 - ROE, her husband, personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day In person and acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered the said Instrument...
Page 477 - suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law.
Page 323 - ... at the time the policy was issued and at the time of the loss...

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