ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; FROM JANUARY TERM, 1799, TO JANUARY TERM, 1803, BOTH TOGETHER WITH CASES DETERMINED IN THE COURT FOR THE CORRECTION OF ERRORS, DURING THAT PERIOD. BY WILLIAM JOHNSON, COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Legum interpretes, judices; legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possu SECOND EDITION; WITH MANY ADDITIONAL CASES NOT INCLUDED IN WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND REFERENCES TO THE AMERICAN AND ENGLISH DECISIONS. BY LORENZO B. SHEPARD, COUNSELLOR AT LAW. VOLUME II. CONTAINING THE CASES FROM OCTOBER TERM, 1800, TO OCTOBER NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY BANKS, GOULD & CO., 1848. LELAND STANFORD IN WWERRITY. A. 43405 AUG 27 1900 District of New York, ss. Be it remembered, That on the first day of October, in the thirty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William Johnson, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words and figures following, to wit: "Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York; from January term, 1799, to January term, 1803, both inclusive; together with Cases determined in the Court for the Correction of Errors, during that period. By William Johnson, Counsellor at Law. Legum interpretes, judices: legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possumus. CICERO. Vol. II. containing the cases from October term, 1800, to October term, 1801, inclusive." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an act, entitled, "An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." CHARLES CLINTON, Clerk of the District of New York. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, by BANKS, GOULD & Co. in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. ALEXANDER S. GOULD, PRINTER, No. 144 Nassau Street, New York. NAMES OF THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, DURING THE TIME OF THE SECOND VOLUME OF THESE REPORTS. JOHN LANSING, Esq. Chief Justice, resigned, on being appointed Chancellor, October 28, 1801. MORGAN LEWIS, Esq. appointed Chief Justice, October 28, 1801. EGBERT BENSON, Esq. resigned March, 1801. JAMES KENT, Esq. JACOB RADCLIFF, Esq. JOSIAH OGDEN HOFFMAN, Esq. Attorney General. |