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acknowledgment by administrator

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Definitions from Case Law

From 25 U.S. 565 - Thompson v. Peter & Johns Administrators Bonis Non of Peter Deceased · 1827Most cited · 20 citing opinions

not enough to revive testator's debt

this is not a suit against the original debtor. It is brought against his representative, who may have no personal knowledge of the transaction. Declarations against him have never been held to take the promise of a testator or intestate out of the act. Indeed, the contrary has been held.

How often courts cite the case defining “acknowledgment by administrator”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “acknowledgment by administrator” — 20 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.