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22 and 23, Charles II, Ch. 9.

Costs......

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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..

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City of Pittsburgh..... 47, 199
Philadelphia, etc., Co..... 371
Partition.

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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

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Lawyers' Reference Manuel of Law Books and Cita-
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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.

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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".

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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............

BEQUEST. See Will.

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357

53

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..

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233

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.

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In Philadelphia, may maintain action to recover
mortgages and other debts in any part of Com-
monwealth after expiration of charter...

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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...

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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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