· 2/27/1817
Duvall v. Craig
Citations
- 15 U.S. 45
- 4 L. Ed. 180
- 2 Wheat. 45
- 1817 U.S. LEXIS 384
How courts have described this case
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- a federal habeas court cannot reexamine a state court’s interpretation and 16 application of state law
- a trustee was “only suable in equity”
- a trustee was “only suable in equity”
- “Where a person acts as agent for another, if he executes a deed for his principal, and does not mean to bind himself personally, he should take care to execute the deed in the name of his principal, and state the name of his principal only, in the body of the deed.”
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