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Decided on : Jan-01-1788
..... pennsylvania, and applied to the executive council, representing that he was a minor at the time of the attainder, and was forcibly prevented by his guardian from joining the american army; for which reasons he prayed a restoration of his estate. the council said, they were ready to grant him a pardon, but that they had it not in their power ..... court respublica v. gordon, 1 u.s. 233 (1788) 1 u.s. 233 (dall.) respublica v. gordon supreme court of pennsylvania january term, 1788 the defendant was included in an act of proclamation issued during the late war, and not appearing within the time prescribed, was attainted of treason for adhering to the king of great britain, in consequence of which ..... , and, as it had not been appropriated or disposed of by the commonwealth, there would then be no obstacle to his taking immediate possession. the legislature soon afterwards passed an act in favor of mr. gordon's pretensions.[ respublica v. gordon footnote 1 u.s. 233 (1788) ] .....
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..... . potts, 2 u.s. 98 (1788) 2 u.s. 98 mccurdy v. potts, et al* supreme court of pennsylvania may sessions, 1788 this was an action of trespass vi et armis for cutting the plaintiff's trees; to which the defendant pleaded non cul. with leave to justify, &c.; the title to the premises was the subject of controversy; and the ..... confer no right to the 157 acres, within the plaintiff's survey; for, on any part of those acres, it is not pretended, that the defendant has ever exercised any act of industry, or that he has even maintained a pedis possessia. he made no inclosure, he cut no timber; nor, in short, in any form appropriated, or set apart, the .....
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..... assisted them, or should thereafter do so, should be confiscated; and that, with respect to those persons who had been inhabitants of the state (the last section of the act providing for the case of persons who had never been inhabitants) the county court upon application was empowered and directed to give judgment, that all their estate ..... 1 u.s. 393, 394 so for some time after the commencement of the war. subsequent, however, to the declaration of independence, the plaintiff joined the british army, and, on the return of peace, he removed with other loyalists to halifax, where he continues to reside. on the second thursday of may in the year 1778 ..... the treaty; and, therefore, thought it would have been incompatible with it to have sustained any legal proceedings afterwards in the supreme court against the defendant, an act of the legislature became necessary to divest the right, which the state had acquired by the previous confiscation. the conduct of the british agents can furnish no .....
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..... a bankrupt, shall not be relieved upon any such judgment, &c; for any more than a rateable part of their debts, with the other creditors.' this section of the act, is similar to one in the statute of james, and must therefore receive the same construction; and the rational and legal construction appears to be, that no ..... the estate, except the present one, at the suit of the plaintiff, and that, therefore, he alone is entitled to the money. the question arises upon the 30th section of the bankrupt law, which enacts, 'that every creditor having security for his debt by judgment, speciality, or other security, whereof there is no execution served and executed ..... lien against the assignees of the bankrupt, or the general creditors under the commission; but contended, that, unless it was for the general benefit, no construction of the act of assembly should be made to divest the lien which the priority of musgrove's judgment had obtained: a lien, they insisted, clearly binding as to a purchasor, .....
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