 | William Wetmore Story - Contracts - 1856 - 848 pages
...applicable to such remote times, as may leave no means to trace the nature, extent, or origin of the elaim, and thus open the way to the most oppressive charges....jury; that, as the language of some cases has been, any acknowledgment, however slight, or any statement not amounting to a denial of the debt; that any... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 822 pages
...observed, it is hard to disprove, and easy to fabricate,) applicable to such remote times, as may leave no means to trace the nature, extent, or origin of...may be deduced of the acknowledgment of a debt, by ii court or jury; that, as the language of some cases has been, any acknowledgment however slight,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
...leave 10 means to trace the nature, extent, or origin f the claim, and thus open the way to the nost oppressive charges. If we proceed one step further, and admit that loose and general x | irrssi. ins, from which a probable or possible nrerence may be deduced of the acknowledgment of... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1874 - 746 pages
...observed, it is hard to disprove and easy to fabricate) applicable to such remote times as may l^ave no means to trace the nature, extent, or origin of...one step further, and admit that loose and general ¡xpressions, from which a probable or possible inference may be deduced of the acknowledgment of a... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 1074 pages
...applicable to such remote limes, as ma}' leave no means lo trace the nature, extent, or origin of Ihe claim, and thus open the way to the most oppressive...and general expressions, from which a probable or possil>le inference may be deduced of the acknowledgment of a debt, by a court or jury; that, as Ihe... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1883 - 876 pages
...observed, it is hard to disprove and easy to fabricate) applicable to such remote times as may leave no means to trace the nature, extent, or origin of...jury, that, as the language of some cases has been, any acknowledgment, however slight, or any statement not amounting to a denial of the debt, that any... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 890 pages
...observed, it is hard to disprove and easy to fabricate), applicable to such remote times, as may leave no means to trace the nature, extent or origin of...jury; that, as the language of some cases has been, any acknowledgment, however slight, or any statement not amounting to a denial of the debt; that any... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 776 pages
...to the present case that I hope I may be excused for quoting some of them. On page 360 he says : " If we" proceed one step further, and admit that loose...jury ; that, as the language of some cases has been, any acknowledgment, however slight, or any statement not amounting to a denial of the debt; that any... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1332 pages
...from Story in Bell v. Morrison, »upra, where he says: "If we proceed one step further, and adn-.it that loose and general expressions, from which a probable...jury, that, as the language of some cases has been, any acknowledgment, however" slight, or any statement not amounting to a denial of the debt, that any... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1610 pages
...disprove, and easy to fabricate), applicable to such remote times, as may leave no means to trace the1 nature, extent, or origin of the claim, and thus open...court or jury; that, as the language of some cases has l>een, and acknowledgment, however slight, or any statement not amounting to a denial of the debt;... | |
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... no means to trace the nature, extent, or origin of the claim, and thus open the w.ay to the most oppressive charges. If we proceed one step further, and admit that loose and general expressions, from which a probable or possible inference may be deduced... 