The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 180

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West Publishing Company, 1921 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 344 - A check of itself does not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to the credit of the drawer with the bank, and the bank is not liable to the holder, unless and until it accepts or certifies the check.
Page 17 - When a transfer of real property is made to one person, and the consideration therefor is paid by or for another, a trust is presumed to result in favor of the person by or for whom such payment is made.
Page 84 - In case the office of any judge shall become vacant, before the expiration of the regular term for which he was elected, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor, until a successor is elected and qualified; and such successor shall be elected for the unexpired term, at the first annual election that occurs more than thirty days after the vacancy shall have happened.
Page 290 - At the close of the evidence, defendant moved for a directed verdict in its favor, on the ground...
Page 428 - Partial disablement" means where the disablement is of a temporary nature, such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a workman in any employment in which he was engaged...
Page 145 - A man may not take contradictory positions; and where he has a right to choose one of two modes of redress, and the two are so inconsistent that the assertion of one involves the negation or repudiation of the other, his deliberate and settled choice of one, with knowledge, or the means of knowledge of such facts as would authorize a resort to each, will preclude him thereafter from going back and electing again.
Page 91 - ... during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise...
Page 239 - State, provided that the legislature may by general law or special act, authorize municipal corporations to levy assessments for local improvements upon the property fronting upon such improvements, or upon the property to be benefited by such improvements, or both, without regard to a cash valuation, and in such manner as the legislature may prescribe.
Page 168 - ... an action for the recovery of the title or possession of lands, tenements, or hereditaments can only be brought within ten years after the cause of such action shall have accrued.
Page 69 - ... no statements, promises or information made or given by or to the person soliciting or taking this application for a policy, or by or to any other person shall be binding on the company or in any manner affect its rights, unless such statements, promises or information 'be reduced to writing and presented to the officers of the company at the home office.

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