Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York: From 1623 to 1846 The civil business of the court was large and varied; such as actions for the te covery of debts, which were generally cases Of disputied accounts, or of misunder standing between the parties, for in proof the probity and punctuality Of the Dutch suits by creditors to enforce payments from delinquent debtors, formed but a small proportion in the general mass of this business. There were proceedings by attach ments against the property ...
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York: From 1623 to 1846 The civil business of the court was large and varied; such as actions for the te covery of debts, which were generally cases Of disputied accounts, or of misunder standing between the parties, for in proof the probity and punctuality Of the Dutch suits by creditors to enforce payments from delinquent debtors, formed but a small proportion in the general mass of this business. There were proceedings by attach ments against the property of absconding debtors, or Of non residents or foreigners, on which security was required of the debtor intending to depart, to release the pro perty from the attachment; actions to recover the possession of land, or to settle boundaries, a proceeding somewhat similar to the relief afforded by our courts of equity upon a confusion of boundaries; actions to recover damages for injuries to land or to personal property, or to recover specific personal property as in replevin, or its value as in trover. Actions for freight, for seamen's wages, for rent, for breach Of promise of mar riege, where the performance of the contract was enforced by imprisonment; for separation between man and wife, in which case the children were equally allotted to the parties, and the property divided,2 after the payment of debts; proceedings in bastardy cases, in which the male was required to give security for the support of the child, and in which both delinquents might be punished by fine or imprison ment. Actions for assault and battery, and for defamation, which were quasi criminal' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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