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Robinson and Co. Vs. Belt

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Oct 27, 1902

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  12. Robinson & Co. v. Belt
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  13. U.S. 41 (1902) U.S. Supreme Court Robinson & Co. v. Belt
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  14. U.S. 41 (1902) Robinson & Co. v. Belt
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  15. nature was held to be void under the statute of Elizabeth as an attempt to hinder, delay, or defeat creditors, Spencer v. Slater
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  16. of its propriety or wisdom. The question was discussed at considerable length by Mr. Justice Story in Halsey v. Fairbanks
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  17. Mason, 206, 227, and the validity of the clause sustained, largely in deference to the case of King v. Watson
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  18. as he states, the very exception was taken by counsel, and the assignment held good by the court of exchequer. King v. Watson
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  19. however, has but a remote bearing, and seems to have been pro tanto overruled by the case of Spencer v. Slater
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  20. Somewhat similar doubt is expressed by Mr. Chief Justice Taney in White v. Winn
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  21. of which is found in 8 Gill, 499. The question was also incidentally considered by this Court in Security Trust Co. v. Dodd
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  22. it has been treated as determinable by the local law of the state from which the question arose. Thus, in Brashear v. West
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  23. and decided the case upon the authority of Lippincott v. Barker
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  24. argument, in favor of the deed. He also remarked that the question had been decided the same way in Pearpoint v. Graham
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  25. days after the date of the instrument, that being the time limit provided for such acceptance. Neither in Lippincott v. Barker
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  26. nor in Pearpoint v. Graham
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  27. months in the other, execute a release of their demands. In several subsequent cases, the rule laid down in Brashear v. West
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  28. courts. They are treated as establishing a rule of property applicable within their several jurisdictions. Sumner v. Hicks
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  29. Randolph v. Quidnick
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  30. Chicago Union Bank v. Kansas
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  31. The same rule has been held to be applicable to decisions of state courts construing the statute of frauds. Allen v. Massey
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  32. of foreign courts in the construction of such statute should be considered as incorporated into it. Thus, in Pennock v. Dialogue
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  33. In Cathcart v. Robinson
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  34. Kirkpatrick v. Gibson
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  35. same rule has been applied in the state courts in the construction of statutes adopted from other states. Commonwealth v. Hartnett
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  36. Tyler v. Tyler
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  37. Bloodgood v. Grasey
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  38. Marqueze v. Caldwell
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  39. State v. Robey
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  40. of all their demands against the assignor as a condition of preference. The subject was first considered in Clayton v. Johnson
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  41. of releasing the residue. The latter was thought to be fraudulent and pernicious in its tendencies. In McReynolds v. Dedman
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  42. the assignor's creditors, was to revert to the assignor himself. This case is wholly consistent with that of Clayton v. Johnson
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  43. In the Page 187 U. S. 49 subsequent case, however, of Collier v. Davis
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  44. Clayton v. Johnson
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  45. creditors, was held void upon its face. It may be noted that the personnel of the court had changed since Clayton v. Johnson
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  46. was decided. In the subsequent case of Wolf v. Gray
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  47. Ark. 75, decided a few weeks before the act of Congress of 1890, notwithstanding the former overruling of Clayton v. Johnson
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  48. in Collier v. Davis
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  49. to all other creditors who should execute releases of the residue of their debts. This case was followed by King v. Hargadine-McKittrick
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  50. none alluded to in the opinion. Such objections could not be raised for the first time in this Court. Insurance Co. v. Mordecai
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