Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 40

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D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1843
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Page 517 - Islands hereinafter mentioned shall be restored without delay and without causing- any destruction or carrying away any of the Artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places and which shall remain therein upon the Exchange of the Ratifications of this Treaty or any Slaves or other private property.
Page 633 - Court may require previous compliance with the terms of the judgment before it admits proceedings in revision. 4. The application for revision must be made at latest within six months of the discovery of the new fact. 5. No application for revision may be made after the lapse of ten years from the date of the judgment.
Page 276 - If a man, having partial interests in an estate, chooses to enter into a contract, representing it, and agreeing to sell it, as his own, it is not competent to him afterwards to say, though he has valuable interests, he has not the entirety ; and, therefore, the purchaser shall not have the benefit of his contract. For the purpose of this jurisdiction, the person contracting under...
Page 97 - ... all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants...
Page 774 - President, as provided in section one of this title, nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to, or interfere with any trade in such commodities, conducted with any foreign port or place wheresoever, or with any other trade which might have been lawfully carried on before the passage of this title, under the law of nations, or under the treaties or conventions entered into by the United States, or under the laws...
Page 533 - ... default of such appointment, to the use of the right heirs of the survivor of...
Page 518 - States claim for their citizens, and as their private property, the restitution of, or full compensation for, all slaves who, at the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the said treaty, were in any territory, places, or possessions, whatsoever, directed by the said treaty to be restored to the United States, but then still occupied by the British forces, whether such slaves were, at the date aforesaid, on shore, or on board any British vessel, lying in, waters within the territory or jurisdiction...
Page 518 - States; and whereas differences have arisen, whether, by the true intent and meaning of the aforesaid Article of the Treaty of Ghent the United States are entitled to the Restitution of, or full Compensation for all or any Slaves as above described...
Page 384 - ... or obliterating the same, or causing it to be done in his or her presence, or by a subsequent will, codicil or declaration in writing, made as aforesaid...
Page 523 - That the United States of America are entitled to claim from Great Britain a just indemnification for all private property which the British forces may have carried away ; and, as the question relates to slaves more especially, for all the slaves that the British forces may have carried away from the places and territories of which the Treaty stipulates the restitution, in quitting these same places and territories.

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