Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Volume 80H.O. Houghton and Company, 1866 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 422 - M. , for the purpose of electing Directors and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.
Page 288 - Whenever any such embezzlement, loss, or destruction is suffered by several freighters or owners of goods, wares, merchandise, or any property whatever, on the same voyage...
Page 228 - The senate shall have the same powers in the like cases; and the governor and council shall have the same authority to punish in like cases; provided, that no imprisonment on the warrant or order of the governor, council, senate, or house of representatives, for either of the above described offences, be for a term exceeding thirty days. And the senate and house of representatives may try and determine all cases where their rights and privileges are concerned, and whidi, by the constitution, they...
Page 347 - ... a rule with the clerk to make a better answer within two calendar months ; and if within that time the defendant shall put in a sufficient answer, the same shall be received without costs ; but if any defendant...
Page 288 - ... any act, matter, or thing lost, damage, or forfeiture, done, occasioned, or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 228 - Each House may punish, by imprisonment, during their session, any person not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect to...
Page 412 - Where a statute makes two or more distinct acts, connected with the same transaction, indictable, each one of which may be considered as representing a stage in the same offense, it has in many cases been ruled, they may be coupled in one count.
Page 269 - Mehetebel the use and improvement of all my estate, both real and personal, so long as she remains my widow.
Page 56 - ... shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, or shall secrete with intent to embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, any...
Page 288 - ... sufficient to make compensation to each of them, they shall receive compensation from the owner of the vessel in proportion to their respective losses ; and for that purpose the freighters and owners of the property, and the owner of the vessel, or any of them, may take the appropriate proceedings in any court, for the purpose of apportioning the sum for which the owner of the vessel may be liable among the parties entitled thereto.