Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida, Volume 16 |
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Page 446 - section 10, that all the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act shall be severally individually liable to the creditors of the company to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively upon all debts and contracts of the company until the whole amount of capital stock fixed by the company
Page 302 - Each law enacted in the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, and matter properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in the title, and no law shall be amended or revised by reference to its title only; but in such case, the act as revised, or section as amended, shall
Page 245 - charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage, or upon any contract for the sale of lands, * * unless the agreement or promIse upon which such action shall be brought, or some note or memorandum thereof, shall be in writing, and signed
Page 855 - be encouraged by the government of this State, and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as practicable, to ascertain by law proper objects of improvement in relation to roads, canals, and navigable streams, and to provide for a suitable application of such funds as may be appropriated for such improvements.
Page 451 - in the silence of any positive rule affirming, or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy or Prejudicial to its interests.
Page 905 - passed by the Legislature of New York, which provides, section 10, that all the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act shall be severally individually liable to the creditors of the company to an amount equal to the
Page 684 - may fall out; in that case (he says) there cannot be taken arbitrary and excessive duties for cranage, wharfage, &c., neither can they be enhanced to an immoderate rate, but the duties must be reasonable and moderate, though settled by the King's license or charter.
Page 853 - the whole community is interested in retaining the power of taxation undiminished, and has a right to insist that its abandonment shall not 'be presumed in any case where the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.
Page 43 - divided into three departments: Legislative, Executive and Judicial; and no person properly belonging to one of the departments shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except in those cases