Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 303 |
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Page 177 - The trustee may avoid any transfer by the bankrupt of his property which any creditor of such bankrupt might have avoided, and may recover the property so transferred, or its value, from the person to whom it was transferred, unless he was a bona fide holder for value prior to the date of the adjudication.
Page 177 - ... vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt...
Page 268 - ... part of the personal estate ; and this law relative to descents and dower shall remain in full force until altered by the legislature of the district.
Page 557 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said John Alden, 2nd, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses the day and year above written.
Page 463 - Unless otherwise authorized by the buyer, the seller must make such contract with the carrier on behalf of the buyer as may be reasonable, having regard to the nature of the goods and the other circumstances of the case.
Page 70 - ... question of law for the court, and not a question of fact for the jury.
Page 482 - ... shall not be enforceable by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf.
Page 483 - It is a well-established proposition of general application that a complete contract binding under the Statute of Frauds may be gathered .from letters, writings, and telegrams between the parties, relating to the subject-matter of the contract, and so connected with each other that they may be fairly said to constitute one paper relating to the contract.
Page 104 - The question always is: Was there an unbroken connection between the wrongful act and the injury, a continuous operation? Did the facts constitute a continuous succession of events, so linked together as to make a natural whole, or was there some new and Independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury?
Page 280 - ... if the time limited for bringing such action shall have expired during the pendency of such suit, the said plaintiff, his or her heirs, executors, or administrators, as the case shall require, may commence a new action within one year after such judgment reversed or given against the plaintiff, and not after.