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..... potest. sed si mala fide emptio intercesserit, nullius erit momenti, ideoque nec usucapere .....
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..... and even where mala fides is necessary to sustain the proceeding, gross negligence is evidence of it. .....
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..... a payment by the debtor void, it is obvious that a security or priority gained by suit in a state court after such notice could have no better claim to protection, for notice of the act of bankruptcy to the creditor is the test of the mala fides which vitiates the transaction. ..... having obtained this preference mala fide, in fraud of the bankrupt law, he cannot be suffered to retain the fruits of it to the injury of other creditors; otherwise the whole policy and aim of the law would be frustrated. .....
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..... more suitable for the plaintiff's confinement than the vessels, under the peculiar circumstances then existing, until the plaintiff had first shown that no discretion existed in the defendant to place him there or that he did it mala fide or for purposes of cruelty and oppression; or to prove that the punishment inflicted was not immoderate, and not unreasonable when it is admitted to have been within the limits of his discretion, as confided to him by the .....
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..... deducible from the laws of nations, be interpreted as still reserving to spain, after the signature of that treaty, the power to grant away the public domain, for she could have had no right to calculate upon the mala fides of the french republic with regard to the provision for the duke of parma, and to make such calculation an excuse for mala fides on her own part. .....
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..... thirty years' possession in louisiana prescribes land, though possessed without title and mala fide. .....
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..... of this court by the conviction that they were founded on services which appertained not to the regular official stations and duties of the claimants -- services, too, actually performed, and untinged by any hue or shade of contrivance or mala fides, and really beneficial in their character to those for whom they were performed. .....
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..... there is no sufficient proof here of actual fraud or mala fides or want of a full and valuable consideration. .....
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..... lord denman, in delivering judgment, said: "we are all of opinion that gross negligence only would not be a sufficient answer where a party has given consideration for the bill; gross negligence may be evidence of mala fides, but it is not the same thing. ..... the question of mala fides was for the consideration of the jury. .....
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..... 202 the defendant does not resist the fulfillment of his agreement for any fraud, nor does the verdict impute any mala fides to the plaintiffs. .....
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