1824, March, 29. 1827, March, 29.
1832, March, 15.
1832, March, 29..
1834, February, 24..
Orphans' Court..
Judgment...
Inns and Taverns..
Orphans' Court... 61, 97, 130
National Banks............
1836, June, 12... 1836, June, 13... 1836, June, 14..
1836, June, 14... 1836, June, 16... 1836, June, 16.... 1840, April, 21.. 1841, May, 27.. 1844, April, 30. 1845, March, 20.. 1846, April, 20.... 1847, March, 13... 1848, April, il...... 1849, February, 19..
1849, March, 21... 1849, April, 9... 1850, April, 26.
1853, April, 18.
1854, May, 8..
1855, April, 26.
1855, May, 4..
1856, April, 11.. 1856, April, 19... 1856, April, 22.. 1857, April, 24.. 1857, May, 14.... 1857, May, 16..... 1859, March, 31... 1859, April, 13... 1860, March, 31... 1861, May, 1.. 1863, May, 6...
1864, January, 6.. 1864, April, 27.. 1865, March, 27..
1867, April, 6....
1868, April, 1..
1868, April, 8........... 1868, May, 1..
1869, February, 18.... 1869, March, 17.. 1869, April, 15. 1869, May, 4... 1870, April, 7.. 1871, May, 8...
22 and 23, Charles II, Ch. 9.
34 ADMINISTRATION. Granting of letters upon 87 estate of living person, though supposed to be dead, is not only a voidable, but a void act........... 143 Under Act of March 15, 1832, register has power to issue letters of administration on estates of dead persons only, and not on estates of living............. ADVANCEMENT. See Decedents' Estates. Decedent was surety on note for husband of her daughter; she paid it, and subsequently stated that she intended amount paid should be de- ducted from her share in her estate. Held, that it could not be held against her as an advancement, 385 That which was originally intended as a gift can- not be changed into an advancement by the ex parte declarations of the donor...............................................
Judgment...... 28, 36, 317 Insurance... 315, 480 Marriage..
City of Pittsburgh..... 47, 199 Philadelphia, etc., Co..... 371 Partition.
The record of summary conviction before chief bur- gess of borough, instituted in name of Common- wealth, was returned on certiorari issued in name of defendants against chief and assistant bur- gesses. Held, that writ could be amended so as to make it conform to record of burgess...... 436 APPROPRIATION OF PAYMENTS. As to payments on account general rule is that law will appropriate in manner most beneficial to the creditor, to an unsecured or partially secured ac- count rather than to one fully secured, and if there be no such difference, then to earliest open items of account......
ARBITRATION. Lien of judgment when entered within five years after award. Court has no power to set aside award of arbitrators selected under compulsory arbitration act, or
Lawyers' Reference Manuel of Law Books and Cita- tions...
Income of the State in hands of testamentary trus- tree, not to be liable in any way or manner for son's debts, cannot be attached for allimony due son's wife.
Lien of execution does not cease with lien of judg- ment on which it is based at end of five years.. 401 Intention to abandon first attachment may be pre- sumed from act of plaintiff...
ATTORNEY AT LAW. When he cannot be dis- barred..
Right of, and others to enter court... ATTORNEY AND CLIENT. Plaintiff was as- signed by court, upon motion of district attorney, as special counsel to assist Commonwealth in prosecution of capital offense. Held, county not liable to pay him for services rendered in such capacity.....
Such services must continue to rest, as heretofore, upon that foundation of obligation and duty which attach as certainly to the office of an at- torney as do its rights and privileges.. Statute of limitations bars claim of attorney as it does claims of other persons when services may be measured in similar way as services of others. It does not begin to run against claim for con- ducting suit until end of his services in that case, nor would it against his claim for other special services until it was finished......
BANK DEPOSIT. Earmarked "Agt".
BANKS AND BANKING. See Checks-Interest. Real estate of a national bank subject to taxation distinct from other capital....... When imposed by city ordinance unconstitutional; but, not being made a lien, the bank is not enti- tled to equitable relief... When depositor settles account with bank, and leaves exact amount of an outstanding check expressly for its payment, and tacitly retains money and settles on that basis, it is liable to holder of the check on implied acceptance...... When liabel on certificate of deposit.... BANKRUPTCY. The fraud contemplated by stat- ute as bar to bankrupt's discharge is fraud in fact, involving moral turpitude and intentional wrong, 37 Right of surety of bankrupt, as against assignee, to appropriate collaterals and proper method for assignee to contest the same...
Where bankrupt's judgment note is discharged by his certificate, and same is subsequently entered against him, he must, to avail himself of his dis- charge, obtain rule to open............
To incorporate under the Act of 2d June, 1871, P. L., 283, there must be strict compliance with terms of act. Grand jury must make full investigation, not only to ascertain if conditions of statute have been complied with, but to determine whether it is expedient to incorporate village described in petition.. 183
As to remedy against, for damages resulting from street improvements..
Remedy of land owner in any borough, who claims to be injured by laying out, widening or grading of streets, etc., is to apply to Court of Common Pleas for appointment of viewers under Act 24th May, 1878; this being the method established by law, must be strictly pursued in accordance with provisions of Act of 21st March, 1806, Sec. 13..... Term "corporate officers," in Act of 1851, "regulating boroughs," does not mean officers of corporation, but refers only to those made a body politic and corporate in the charters of boroughs incorpo- rated by Acts of Assembly, and to those in whom powers of corporation, as such, were vested in boroughs incorporated by the courts under Act of 1834. Where, in charter of borough incorporated by Act of Assembly, "the burgess and town council" were made a body politic and corporate in law, and such borough afterwards became subject to the restrictions of the Act of 1851, is entitled to meet with other corporate officers, and as chief officer of corporation, by whom by-laws, etc., are to be signed, and oath administered to other corporate officers, to preside at such meeting........ Ib BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. Distribution.
In Philadelphia, may maintain action to recover mortgages and other debts in any part of Com- monwealth after expiration of charter...
BURIAL GROUNDS. See Equity.
When a, of personalty is made to testator's widow, upon condition that she shall not remarry, and there is bequest over in case condition is broken, it shows that condition was not intended as a menace, but as basis of distinct gift, and it is good, although bequest over be to persons who would take under intestate laws........ 431 BILLS AND NOTES. See Collaterals-See Checks. BONDS. See Orphans' Court-Justices of the Peace. Approval of railroad company's bond for compen- sation for right of way when equity proceedings are pending...
Where there is no other suitable and practicable route for the construction of a railroad, and the land sought to be taken is embraced within a cemetery tract, but from its situation and charac- ter is practically unfit as a place for the burial of the dead, or for the purposes of improvement, and proposed route would not disturb or interfere with the use of that portion of the cemetery valu- able for burial purposes, it is not such land as is within the meaning and intent of the prohibi- tion of the general railway law against "passing through burying ground:" Act of February 19, 1849, Sec. 10, P. L., 83, Purd. Dig., 1218..... An assignee of burial grounds (which had been con- veyed to assignor with the reservation that he and his family and their offspring should forever, for their own and separate use, have the right and privilege of marking off certain portions thereof) had no legal right to mark the same by a fence..... 187
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