Gordon v. Cannon
Supreme Court of Virginia
By deed bearing’ date the 30th of November, 1866, William! H. Rogers, James I). Riddick and J. Pendleton Rogers, merchants and partners trading under the name and style of Rogers, Riddick & Co., in the city of Richmond, and Mary Jane Rogers, wife of William H. Rogers, conveyed to Edward T. Cannon two tracts of land in the State of Texas, containing four thousand two hundred and fourteen acres, the property of William H. Rogers, ail their stock of goods, “an inventory of…
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By deed bearing’ date the 30th of November, 1866, William! H. Rogers, James I). Riddick and J. Pendleton Rogers, merchants and partners trading under the name and style of Rogers, Riddick & Co., in the city of Richmond, and Mary Jane Rogers, wife of William H. Rogers, conveyed to Edward T. Cannon two tracts of land in the State of Texas, containing four thousand two hundred and fourteen acres, the property of William H. Rogers, ail their stock of goods, “an inventory of which stock will, as soon as practicable, be taken and be annexed to this deed as a schedule, to be marked schedule A, and…
1Opinion of the Court
MONCURJ5, P.
Whatever may be the law and course of judicial decision in other States on the subject, there can now be no doubt but that in this State, a debtor in failing circumstances may make a valid assignment of his whole estate (subject, however, to existing liens thereon), for the benefit of his creditors, in such order of priority as he may choose to prescribe in the assignment; and though his estate be insufficient for the payment of all his debts, he may lawfully subject it, in the first place, to the payment in full of such of his debts as he may choose to prefer, and then to the…
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