| Henry Roscoe - 1832 - 660 Seiten
...16 Id. 168. » 11 Id. 124. phatically to be, a statute of repose. It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...from lapse of time ; but to afford security against state demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten. or bo incapable of... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 602 Seiten
...Morrison, et al* pronounces the statute of limita-*iPete.s, 351. tions to be a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or become incapable. of explanation, by reason of the death... | |
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1889 - 648 Seiten
...necessary for the peace of society." TILGHMAN, CJ (1 Binn. 217.) "It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or be incapable of explanation, by reason of the death or... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - 1837 - 534 Seiten
...made it what it was intended emphatically to be, a statute of repose. It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or be incapable of explanation by reason of the death or removal... | |
| Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk - 1845 - 394 Seiten
...it what it was intended to be, emphatically, a statute of repose. It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...time, but to afford security against stale demands," [and for a stronger reason, against stale prosecutions,] " after the true state of the transaction... | |
| Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk - 1845 - 346 Seiten
...be, emphatically, a statute of repose. It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to niisr a, presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time, but to aflbr<! security against stale demands," [and for a stronger reason, against stale prosecutions,] "... | |
| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1848 - 904 Seiten
...has been truly stated, ' that the law of limitation is a wise and beneficial law, and designed not merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just...security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or become incapable of explanation, by the death or removal... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 Seiten
...made" it what it was intended to be, emphatically a statute of repose. It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to alford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten,... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 Seiten
...made it what it was intended to be, emphatically a statute of repose. It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...security against stale demands after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or be incapable of explanation by reason of the death or removal... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1852 - 560 Seiten
...Angel on Lim. p. 3. It is now, says Greenlcaf, regarded by the courts as a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment...security against stale demands, after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten, or be incapable of explanation by reason of the death or removal... | |
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