Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia: Passed at the Session of 1838, Commencing 1st January, 1838, and Ending 9th April, 1838, in the Sixty-second Year of the CommonwealthThomas Ritchie, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1838 - 270 pages |
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Page 73 - Joint Contractors, or Executors or Administrators, if it shall appear at the Trial or otherwise that the Plaintiff, though barred by either of the said recited Acts or this Act, as to One or more of such Joint Contractors, or Executors or Administrators, shall nevertheless be entitled to recover against any other or others of the Defendants, by virtue of a new Acknowledgment or Promise, or otherwise, Judgment may be given and Costs allowed for the Plaintiff as to such Defendant or Defendants against...
Page 73 - ... or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall be made or contained by or in some writing to be signed by the party chargeable thereby...
Page 74 - That no Action shall be maintained whereby to charge any Person upon any Promise made after full Age to pay any Debt contracted during Infancy, or upon any Ratification after full Age of any Promise or Simple Contract made during Infancy, 'unless such Promise or Ratification shall be made by some Writing signed by the Party to be charged therewith.
Page 70 - ... any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any court of record, or relating to any matter civil or criminal, begun, depending, or terminated in any such court...
Page 158 - An act to reduce into one the several acts for establishing and regulating the post office department, approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty -five.
Page 177 - ... and to receive and make all deeds, transfers, contracts, covenants, conveyances, and grants, whatsoever; and to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to change and renew at pleasure, and...
Page 192 - Strange, and such other persons as may be hereafter associated with them, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of...
Page 164 - ... passed February the thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and are hereby made subject to the reservations and regulations of said act. 2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars, nor more than five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars...
Page 170 - Sussex;" and by that name, shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity.