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Page 474 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law as the Legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the Constitution, may think necessary and expedient...
Page 485 - A prohibition simply upon the use of property for purposes that are declared, by valid legislation, to be injurious to the health, morals, or safety of the community, cannot, in any just sense, be deemed a taking or an appropriation of property for the public benefit.
Page 148 - This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void if the insured now has or shall hereafter make or procure any other contract of insurance, whether valid or not, on property covered in whole or in part by this policy...
Page 408 - In such decree the court shall name the persons and the proportions or parts to which each shall be entitled ; and such persons shall have the right to demand and recover their respective shares from the executor or administrator, or any other person having the same...
Page 62 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Page 483 - If the public safety or the public morals require the discontinuance of any manufacture or traffic, the hand of the Legislature cannot be stayed from providing for its discontinuance, by any incidental inconvenience which individuals or corporations may suffer. All rights are held subject to the police power of the State.
Page 308 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 198 - ... that where one of two innocent parties must suffer from the fraud of a third, the loss should fall on him, who enabled such third party to commit the fraud.
Page 440 - Elmira, and the courts of this state imposing such sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof. The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the managers of the reformatory, as authorized by this act, but such imprisonment shall not exceed" the maximum term provided by law for the crime for which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
Page 408 - ... the probate court shall, by a decree for that purpose, assign the residue of the estate, if any, to such persons as are by law entitled to the same...

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