Pacific States Reports: Extra Annotated, Book 8Bancroft-Whitney, 1906 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 63
... amount being beyond the jurisdiction of the Justice of the Peace , the objection of the plaintiff to the filing of the answer on that ground should have been sustained by the Justice , and by the County Court when it was renewed . Sec ...
... amount being beyond the jurisdiction of the Justice of the Peace , the objection of the plaintiff to the filing of the answer on that ground should have been sustained by the Justice , and by the County Court when it was renewed . Sec ...
Page 125
... amount found by the verdict of the jury ; but as he consented to take the lesser amount , by remitting under the order of the Court , and has not appealed from the judgment , we cannot act upon any such question . The judgment is ...
... amount found by the verdict of the jury ; but as he consented to take the lesser amount , by remitting under the order of the Court , and has not appealed from the judgment , we cannot act upon any such question . The judgment is ...
Page 179
... amount to an interest in the land , and therefore was not within the Statute of Frauds ; and that no conveyance other than a delivery of the possession was necessary to transfer the title from one person to another . And the Court ...
... amount to an interest in the land , and therefore was not within the Statute of Frauds ; and that no conveyance other than a delivery of the possession was necessary to transfer the title from one person to another . And the Court ...
Page 180
... amount he paid for it . Where property sued for is a chose in action , as a bill , note , or other security for the payment of money , the measure of damages is prima facie the amount due on the security ; the defendant being at liberty ...
... amount he paid for it . Where property sued for is a chose in action , as a bill , note , or other security for the payment of money , the measure of damages is prima facie the amount due on the security ; the defendant being at liberty ...
Page 198
... amount claimed in the complaint . If the appeal is by the plaintiff from a judgment in his favor , then the amount in dispute is the difference between the amount of the judgment and the sum claimed by the complaint . The jurisdiction ...
... amount claimed in the complaint . If the appeal is by the plaintiff from a judgment in his favor , then the amount in dispute is the difference between the amount of the judgment and the sum claimed by the complaint . The jurisdiction ...
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Page 520 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 326 - ... that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant...
Page 37 - Courts; also, in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real estate, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, or in which the demand, exclusive of interest, or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three hundred dollars...
Page 221 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 610 - An action for relief not hereinbefore provided for must be commenced within four years after the cause of action shall have accrued.
Page 294 - No mortgage of personal property hereafter made shall be valid against any other person than the parties thereto, unless possession of the mortgaged property be delivered to and retained by the mortgagee, or unless the mortgage be recorded by the clerk of the town where the mortgagor resides.
Page 532 - And if they are so mutually connected with and dependent on each other, as conditions, considerations, or compensations for each other, as to warrant the belief that the Legislature intended them as a whole, and...
Page 112 - The powers of the government of the state of California shall be divided into three separate departments: The legislative, the executive, and judicial; and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except in the cases hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Page 244 - Court may change the place of trial in the following cases : 1. When the County designated for that purpose in the complaint is not the proper County ; 2. When there is reason to believe that an impartial trial cannot be had therein ; 3. When the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would be promoted by the change.
Page 66 - The writ must be issued in all cases where there is not a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy, in the ordinary course of law.