Manuscript/Mixed Material Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to juries
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Image 1 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Shackleford vs On appeal from Magistrate McIntire This action must be considered as based either upon the writing exhibited alone or upon a verbal assumpsit indepent of the writing It cannot be…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 2 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … recollections of treacherous memory for the infallible Documentary evidence which the law will in no case permit vide authorities on this subject passion 3d Stathie 10461002 loose conversationsmere chaffening are not admissible…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 3 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … is without consideration a nudum pactum which is invalid in law no consideration is pretended to have passed except the sixty dollars which was the consideration of the written contract and could…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 4 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … a bare affirmation say the Court of Appeals does not amount to a warrantymuch less will a suppositionor a mere descriptive recital It is evident from the content of the writing that…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 5 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … who would ever think of constructing this description into a warranty that the home was only five years old or even into an affirmation that he was It would pronounce at first…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 6 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Edwin R Brown vs McGilbra H Kennedy In court Chancery Jany Term 1835 A The person of said defendant To complainants Bill of complaint The said defendant by protestation not confessing all…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 7 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … E R Brown Mr Gilbert H Kennedy Penn- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 8 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … John ONeil at Commonwealth The defendant comes and says the commonwealth ought not to have and maintain for prosecution hereon against him because he says that at the June term 1834 of…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 9 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … D C Humphrey s In chancery vs The heirs of Lindsay L Lee Bill filed Jany 1833 Contents of Bill That Sometime in 18 one Tobias Brashear died 1st His heirs 2…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 10 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 3d After the death of Tobias Brashear Markham F Brashear purchased from his coheirs their undivided Portions of Said land and entered and held peaceable and quiet Possession of the Same until…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 11 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Main Brief in Can Humphry Heirs of Lee Lindsey Brief B- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 12 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … marital influence which is so fatal to all her contracts But a covenant on the part of a feme covert to suff levy a common recovery fine was void would not be…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 13 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … there any allegation or evidence that Montgomery was a non resident on that the certificate is according to the usage of the court Under such circumstances we are not bound to accept…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 14 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Had this contract been made subsequent to the year 1797 the widow of Thos would have been entitled to Dower under our this would have robbed the widow of John of her…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 15 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Williams vs McIntires A revision of the contract in this cause must it is believed be decreed for the following reasons 1st It Cannot be enforced under the statute of Frauds not…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 16 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … entered into by their guardian Ben Helm As guardian he had no authority to sell the real estate of his wards As an agent he could not have done sofor it is…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 17 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … To the Honorable John A Quitman chancellor of the State of Mississippi in chancery sitting Your orator Alfred Cox humbly complaining would beg leave to represent unto your Honor That sometime about…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 18 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … orator but who when known are prayed to be made defendants to this Bill with proper and apt words to charge them in the promises to cheat and defraud your orator and…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 19 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Your orator in the first place charges that said defendant has not in his inventory or in any settlement in the orphans court in any way accounted for or admitted any debt…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 20 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … plantation by the labor of said slaves a good crop for which use and occupation and crop has failed and refuses to render an account to the proper court as administrator or…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 21 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … such preference Your orator will further state that the said defendant did promise and agree with one Alexander Montgomery who held an execution amounting to about 1600 issued from the Jefferson Circuit…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 22 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … interest of said estate required of and commanded the Sheriff to sell the real estate which he accordingly did which consisted of about 460 acres of valuable land situate on Lake Washington…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 23 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … received until after the said last mentioned sale and purchase by said defendant All of which actings and doings are contrary to equity and good conscience and tend to the manifest injury…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 24 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … to postpone the sale of the personal estate of said Gilbert until an officer should be appointed authorised to levy said execution If so how long whether he did not obtain an…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 25 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … his debt or claim against the estate of said Gilbert as afs and may it please your Honor to grant such other and further rilief in the premises as may seem just…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 26 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … In chancery State of Mississippi A Cox vs copy William A Dromgools- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 27 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … The question you have heard is whether or not any man should any man be put to death upon the testimony of one witness Although I have no doubt but that it…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 28 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 2 of this one witness is not to be corroborated by any circumstantial proof whatever but the man is to be put to death upon the sole testimony of one witness without…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 29 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 4 which society grows a law of this kind should be enacted and strengthened in its influence upon by the moral and physical energies of government There are many reasons which might…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 30 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 5 and there is no longer any danger to be apprehended from this source for you will not find this hatred and prejudice existing in the minds of two or three individuals…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 31 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 6 life completely in the hands of what is called the influential characters of the Country and I would just as soon my life property or reputation should be in the hands…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 32 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 8 a preponderance of testimony Scripture law and common sense confirm the truth of the maxim that it is better 99 guilty men should escape than one innocent one be punished but…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 33 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 9 shall he that is worthy of death be put to death but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death again in Numbers C 35 v…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 34 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 10 at least three or four times that one witness shall not testify against any man to cause him to die what better authority would we wish than this God willed the…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 35 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 12 his another the stars may fade away the sun himself shall fade away and grow dim with age and nature sink in years but his law shall stand unshaken in immortal…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 36 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … 13 that blessing which a God alone can he bestow from reason and the word of god we are taught this never was intended we are taught it never was intended this…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 37 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Testimony of one witness- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 38 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Gentlemen of the Jury As one of the counsel for the unfortunate young man arraigned at the bar I will beg your indulgent attention while I endeavor to offer some observations in…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 39 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … Let not then a knowledge that the dagger has been drawn that blood has been spilt excite your prejudices To do so would be to poison the fountain of justice whose purity…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
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Image 40 of Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to … with which you are entrusted A charge of crime is made against this man by the government The law regards him innocent of the accusation until the contrary shall be satisfactorily proved…- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817
About this Item
Title
- Joseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; Legal miscellany; Speeches to juries
Names
- Joseph Holt papers, 1797-1917
Created / Published
- 1817 - 1894
Headings
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- - United States--Politics and government--19th century
- - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- - United States. War Department
- - Cabinet officers
- - Lawyers
- - Democratic Party (U.S.)
- - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination
- - Holt family--Correspondence
- - United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General
- - Trials (Assassination)--Washington (D.C.)
- - Kentucky--Politics and government--1792-1865
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
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- series: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894
- mss26385, box 95
Source Collection
- Joseph Holt papers, 1797-1917
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- Manuscript Division
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- online text
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Subject
- 19th Century
- Assassination
- Cabinet Officers
- Civil War
- Correspondence
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- History
- Holt Family
- Kentucky
- Lawyers
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Manuscripts
- Politics and Government
- Trials (Assassination)
- United States
- United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General
- United States. War Department
- Washington (D.C.)