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Mitchel Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... when the united states acquired and took possession of the floridas, the treaties which had been made with the indian tribes before the acquisition of the territory by spain and great britain remained in force over all the ceded territory as the laws which regulated the relations with all the indians who were parties to them, and were binding on ..... 753 careening ground which is in front of this town" (record 172), which, according to another report from the surveyor general, belonged by the treaties with england, to the indians (record 175), and who refers to the limited space of province left to the government, and the necessity of recurring to negotiations with the indians to obtain some of the lands, which are the best in the vicinity of pensacola. ..... and of the provinces, on the same footing as the other inhabitants thereof, to the benefits of the law and government which, in every dominion, equally affect and protect all persons and all property within its limits, as the rule of decision, for all questions which arise there (cowper 208), as in this case it must be as to the right of property in the indians. ..... superior court for the middle district of florida and was argued by counsel, on full consideration whereof, this court is unanimously of opinion that the title of the petitioner to so much of the lands in controversy as is embraced within the lines and boundaries of the tract granted by the deeds, grants, and acts of confirmation to panton, leslie & co. .....

Rockhill Vs. Hanna

Court : US Supreme Court

..... but liens on real estate are matters of record and notice to all the world, and have no other limit to their duration than that assigned by the law. ..... states for the district of indiana, and on the points or questions on which the judges of the said circuit court were opposed in opinion and which were certified to this court for its opinion, agreeably to the act of congress in such case made and provided, and was argued by counsel. ..... but if the plaintiff be remitted to other remedies by a discharge of his debtor by act of law, or by an escape, it will not operate to restore his lien on the debtor's property, which he has elected to waive or abandon as against creditors who have obtained a precedence during such suspension. ..... that the plaintiffs in this suit are not entitled to more than their distributive share of the proceeds of the sale. 2. ..... that plaintiffs in this suit are not entitled to more than their distributive share of the proceeds of the sale. 2d. ..... whether or not the plaintiffs in this suit are entitled to more than their distributive share of the proceeds of the sale." "2d. ..... it is true, if the debtor should die in prison, or be discharged by act of the law without consent of the creditor, he may have an action on the judgment or leave to have other executions against the property of his creditor. ..... neither the letter nor spirit of the act will permit a construction which by a retrospective operation would divest rights vested before its passage. .....

Lessee of Mccall Vs. Carpenter

Court : US Supreme Court

..... it is manifest that this allegation refers simply to the subject of providing for the mutual releases or conveyances of the joint interest in the property, so that each might become vested severally with the title to his respective share, and nothing beyond this, as is further evinced by the prayer of the bill, which is that if the allegations in the bill should be found true, not that stewart should be quieted in his title under mccall, but ..... the facts found by the court did not exist, and that the decree was conclusive, in respect to the thing which the parties had, or admitted, or it was declared they had, and also in respect to the share to which each was entitled in severalty, and to the parcel so allotted. ..... "in all cases of partition," he says, "a court of equity does not act merely in a ministerial character and in obedience to the call of the parties who have a right to the partition, but it founds itself upon its general jurisdiction as a court of equity, and administers its relief ex aequo et bono, according to ..... deeds of partition could be exchanged, mccall sold and conveyed to hugh stewart all his undivided interest in the town property, without including his share in the quarter section. ..... " and also "the line which separates error in judgment from the usurpation of power is very definite, and is precisely that which denotes the cases where a judgment or decree is reversible only by an appellate court, or may be declared a nullity collaterally, when it is offered in .....

Williams Vs. Conger

Court : US Supreme Court

..... after the title was thus extended, to-wit, on the 25th of may, 1836, victor blanco, under and by virtue of the power of attorney referred to, sold the land in question, in the city of mexico, to one guillermo laguerenne by an act of sale passed before one bonilla, a notary public, and that laguerenne, on the 10th of january, 1837, in the city of mexico, executed before one madriago, a notary public, a power of attorney to francisco priolland, of new orleans, authorizing ..... to the witness by priolland when he purchased the land in 1837, was executed before miguel diez de bonilla, a notary public in the city of mexico; that he knew the signature of said officer and recognized his signature to said act of sale as his genuine signature because he had often employed bonilla during his (witness') residence in mexico from 1831 to 1836; that he delivered it to robert rose, his attorney and agent, in 1850, and had not seen ..... the defendants also gave in evidence the testimony of several witnesses tending to prove that they and those from whom they derived title had constantly exercised acts of ownership over the land in question from the time of the origin of their title by paying the taxes, filing the muniments of title, surveying the tract into parcels, selling to settlers, leasing to tenants, compromising with ..... the defendants pleaded not guilty, the statute of limitations, and laches. .....

Russell Vs. Maxwell Land Grant Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 11, 1841, the territorial governor of new mexico (that being at the time a part of the republic of mexico) made a grant to beaubien and miranda of a tract of land with specified boundaries; that on june 21, 1860, congress passed an act confirming such grant, with the boundaries therein specified; that on december 16, 1878, the surveyor general of the united states for the territory of new mexico returned to the land department at washington a survey officially made ..... and conclusive evidence which the rule we have here laid down requires, we are of opinion that, if it were an open question, unaffected by the respect due to the official acts of the government upon such a subject, depending upon the bare preponderance of evidence, there is an utter failure to establish either mistake or fraud. ..... on the contrary, it was conceded that it was within the limits of the survey, and the offer was simply to show that that survey was inaccurate and that the lines should have been run elsewhere, but this is not a matter for inquiry in this collateral way in ..... sectional lines had been run through the entire limits of the maxwell grant, it would not thereby have defeated the grant, or avoided the effect of the confirmatory act. ..... if parties asserting interests in lands acquired since the acquisition of the country could deny and controvert this record and compel the patentee in every suit for his land to establish the validity of his claim, his right to its confirmation, and the correctness of .....

The Maharaja of Vizianagaram by His Guardian and Next Friend, F.W. Gil ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1903)13MLJ83

..... the principle of the said decision of the privy council is that, according to the general scheme of the second schedule to the indian limitation act which in this matter differs from the scheme of the english statutes of limitation in respect of one and the same suit, the period of limitation varies according as the remedy is ' real ' or ' personal, ' and this can be illustrated by referring to several articles thus article 81 prescribes a period of three years for a suit ..... the latter could not successfully resist the defendant's claim for contribution and, if so, it follows that the plaintiff from whose share alone the arrear was realized by the collector, is equally entitled to claim contribution from the defendant since the plaintiff is not responsible for the wrongful act of jagannatha raz in excluding his co-sharers from possession and making default in the payment of revenue due to government and ..... which was chiefly argued was, whether apart from the provisions of section 35 of the revenue recovery act, the plaintiff has under the general principles of law, charge over the defendant's share by reason that it was equally liable with the plaintiff's share to pay the arrear of revenue which accrued due to government between 31st october 1893 and 5th may ..... the suit was barred by limitation under article 99 of the second schedule to act xv of 1877 and also by section 43 of the code of civil procedure and that the plaintiff acquired no charge upon defendant's share in the estate.5. .....

Security Mortgage Co. Vs. Powers

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the court of appeals rests its affirmance of the judgment denying the credit for attorney's fees upon provisions of the bankruptcy act which we hold are not applicable, or upon a construction of the georgia statute which we deem erroneous. ..... held: (1) enforcement of the lien for the attorney's fees was not precluded by 63 of the bankruptcy act upon the ground that the liability remained contingent until after the bankruptcy adjudication. ..... the trustee contends that, under the bankruptcy act, the claim must be disallowed, because, by the page 278 u. s ..... it concedes that, by no action in the state court and by no act of the mortgage company could a lien be attached to the property after it had passed to the trustee ( see murphy v ..... he insists that, at the time of the adjudication, the liability was contingent, since at the time there had not been any default, and under 63 of the bankruptcy act, a contingent claim is not provable. ..... 153 under 67 of the bankruptcy act, the trustee takes property subject to valid liens existing at the time of the institution of the bankruptcy ..... schappi bus line, 275 u. s ..... find nothing in the bankruptcy act to justify such a refusal. ..... trustee contends that the credit for the attorney's fees was precluded by provisions of the bankruptcy act. ..... loan transaction, and the consideration for the lien having been the loan -- a " present consideration " -- and not the attorney's services, allowance of the attorney's fees was not excluded by 67d of the bankruptcy act. p. .....

Satyavart Sidhantalankar Vs. the Arya Samaj

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1946Bom516; (1946)48BOMLR341

..... it is at teast permissive, i prefer to be guided by the observations of lord lindley which i have referred to above and hold that in spite of the provisions contained in sections 6, 7 and 8 of the societies registration act as regards suits by and against societies, non-abatement of suits and enforcement of judgment against the societies, which i have already referred to above, it is competent to the society to sue or be sued in the name of the ..... necessary to sue the trustees.even though in the speech of lord brampton there are observations which would go to show that the provision, which we have enacted in section 6 of the societies registration act as regards suits by and against societies, is capable of being construed as the only mode in which suits by or against the societies could be brought, the observations of lord lindley which i ..... registrar of joint stock companies becomes a legal entity apart from the members constituting the same i am of opinion that by reason of the provisions of the societies registration act, once the society is registered with the registrar of joint stock companies by the filing of the memorandum and certified copy of the rules and regulations thereof with the registrar ..... with regard to his individual interests though these interests may be peculiar to himself and not shared by the company, this is the limitation on the power conferred on the majority which has been laid down in the case of goodfellow ..... line (liverpool) limited ..... the line of decisions .....

Sardarni Ram Khetri W/O. S. Sahib Singh and ors. Vs. Hind Iran Bank Lt ...

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR1962P& H526; [1962]32CompCas470(P& H)

..... of sub-section (6) from section 19 altogether.this sub-section seems to mean that where an action has been taken or omitted under section 19, for example when a displaced person's partly paid up shares have been converted into smaller number of fully paid up shares or interest has not been charged from him in pursuance of this section, then, by virtue of the exception contained in sub-section (6), even after the expiry of the period of 10 years, as ..... the liability extended in the case of the defendant, who is a shareholder of a company limited by shares, to the unpaid amount of the shares, but the question that we have to consider is whether this liability of the defendant can be recovered in any offer manner except by the procedure laid down in ..... the counsel has emphasized that in section 156(1)(iv), the liability of a contributory is limited to the amount unpaid on the shares in respect which he is liable as a present or a past member, it is argued that the expression 'is liable' has not been noticed in the authorities ..... , according to the learned judge, is not ex contractor and has been imposed as a new liability by statute on the share-holders after the company goes into liquidation in respect of unpaid calls made whether before or after the winding up. ..... far as acquisition of ownership of by possession is concerned, the relevant provisions are contained in part iv of the act. ..... enough for out present purpose to state that i agree with the line of reasoning adopted by chagla c. j. .....

Kasireddy Varahalu Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh Home (Transport Iii) De ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1968AP1

..... existence pending the appeal but only issued under a law that was in existence even at the lime he applied for a permit; that the law was that embodied in section 43a of the act, namely, that the government could issued directions binding on the authorities concerned and that law was a preexisting one and the application had to be disposed of subject to that law till it was ..... is contrary not only to the observations of the supreme court, but also to the provisions of section 47 of the act and rule 212 of the rules framed under the act in raman and raman's case, : air1959sc694 what fell for consideration was whether the central road traffic board was wrong in ..... unless there is a definite inconsistency or repugnancy between the provisions of the act as amended and unamended provisions, it could not be predicted that the latter ..... namely, that when the appellate-authority which remanded the matter was not property constituted, as the transport commissioner nominated two of the members, while the act, requires the state government to constitute it, the remand order itself was invalid. ..... the impugned order is administrative or executive seem to suggest that the said order would, prima facie, be inconsistent with the provisions of section 43a which received a narrow and limited construction from the court. ..... the old law governs the action throughout its career unaffected by subsequent alterations in the law, the classical example of the rule being the colonial sugar refining company, limited v. .....