Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of Appeal of the State of California, Volume 74

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Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1927 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 385 - No county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the state shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year...
Page 297 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 699 - The board of directors, or other officers of the district, shall have no power to incur any debt or liability whatever, either by issuing bonds or otherwise, in excess of the express provisions of this Act; and any debt or liability incurred in excess of such express provisions shall be and remain absolutely void...
Page 811 - Holder" means the payee or indorsee of a bill or note, who is in possession of it, or the bearer thereof. "Indorsement" means an indorsement completed by delivery.
Page 862 - States, which declares that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the judicial proceedings of every other state...
Page 441 - The statute regarding the crime of conspiracy provides that no agreement, except to commit a felony upon the person of another, or to commit arson or burglary, amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act besides such agreement be done to effect the object thereof by one or more of the parties to such agreement.
Page 92 - The husband has the management and control of the community personal property, with like absolute power of disposition, other than testamentary, as he has of his separate estate...
Page 115 - ... of actions of forcible entry and detainer; of proceedings in insolvency; of actions to prevent or abate a nuisance; of all matters of probate; of divorce and for annulment of marriage, and of all such special cases and proceedings as are not otherwise provided for. And said court shall have the power of naturalization, and to issue papers therefor. They shall have appellate jurisdiction in such cases arising in justices' and other inferior courts in their respective counties as may be prescribed...
Page 182 - Code, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not longer than one year or in the state prison not longer than five years, or by fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). Such offense must be proved by the testimony of two witnesses, or of one witness and corroborating circumstances.
Page 90 - ... c. A person in possession of a negotiable receipt by the terms of which the goods are deliverable to him or order or to bearer, or which has been indorsed to him or in blank by the person to whom delivery was promised by the terms of the receipt or by his mediate or immediate indorsee.

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