Commentaries on American Law, Volume 2W. Kent, 1848 - Law |
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... Debtor's Apartment , 1 Ash- mead's Penn . Rep . 10 , it was declared not to be competent upon habeas cor- pus to inquire into the regularity of the proceedings of another competent court , nor for a single judge to revise the judgment ...
... Debtor's Apartment , 1 Ash- mead's Penn . Rep . 10 , it was declared not to be competent upon habeas cor- pus to inquire into the regularity of the proceedings of another competent court , nor for a single judge to revise the judgment ...
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... debtors or co - sureties is about to remove out of the state with his effects before the time of payment or conveyance . Revised Laws of Illinois , edit . 1833 , and of Indiana , 1838. So the writ of ne exeat may be granted in Georgia ...
... debtors or co - sureties is about to remove out of the state with his effects before the time of payment or conveyance . Revised Laws of Illinois , edit . 1833 , and of Indiana , 1838. So the writ of ne exeat may be granted in Georgia ...
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... debtor , under the process of foreign attachment , fairly and not collusively , the recovery is a protection to the garnishee against his original creditor , and he may plead it in bar.c A distinction has been taken since the time of ...
... debtor , under the process of foreign attachment , fairly and not collusively , the recovery is a protection to the garnishee against his original creditor , and he may plead it in bar.c A distinction has been taken since the time of ...
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... debtor.b But if he dies before he recovers the money , or alters the security , or by some act reduces the chose in action into possession , the wife will be entitled to the debts in her own right , without administering on his estate ...
... debtor.b But if he dies before he recovers the money , or alters the security , or by some act reduces the chose in action into possession , the wife will be entitled to the debts in her own right , without administering on his estate ...
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... debtor , but as the husband . It is still the debt of the wife , and if she survives her husband , she continues personally * 146 liable . * It has also been held by the K. B. in Miles v . Williams , that the debts of the wife dum sola ...
... debtor , but as the husband . It is still the debt of the wife , and if she survives her husband , she continues personally * 146 liable . * It has also been held by the K. B. in Miles v . Williams , that the debts of the wife dum sola ...
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