American Law and Procedure, Volume 13James De Witt Andrews La Salle Extension University, 1910 - Law |
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... compact 48 § 19. Limitation upon the freedom of contract essential to liberty 51 § 20. Early limitations on absolute sovereignty - Magna Charta .. 52 The Confirmatio cartarum 55 i § 21. The representation of the people Rise of the.
... compact 48 § 19. Limitation upon the freedom of contract essential to liberty 51 § 20. Early limitations on absolute sovereignty - Magna Charta .. 52 The Confirmatio cartarum 55 i § 21. The representation of the people Rise of the.
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... contracts with a state at his peril ... .... 288 $ 134 . Limitation on their mode of action .289 $ 135 . The national constitution is supreme .289 $ 136 . Amendments of state constitutions 290 $ 137 . Nature of suffrage .291 $ 138 ...
... contracts with a state at his peril ... .... 288 $ 134 . Limitation on their mode of action .289 $ 135 . The national constitution is supreme .289 $ 136 . Amendments of state constitutions 290 $ 137 . Nature of suffrage .291 $ 138 ...
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... Contract Act contains what a continental writer would call the General Part of the law of contract ; namely , rules of law by which the formation , validity , and effect of all kinds of contracts alike are governed JURISPRUDENCE AND ...
... Contract Act contains what a continental writer would call the General Part of the law of contract ; namely , rules of law by which the formation , validity , and effect of all kinds of contracts alike are governed JURISPRUDENCE AND ...
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James De Witt Andrews. and effect of all kinds of contracts alike are governed in British India . The other chapters which deal with sale , agency and other species of contracts might be called the Special Part of the Act ...
James De Witt Andrews. and effect of all kinds of contracts alike are governed in British India . The other chapters which deal with sale , agency and other species of contracts might be called the Special Part of the Act ...
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... contract , or torts , or equity , etc. , but when a case arises in real life he can never be sure that there is not lurking somewhere in the vast fields of law a rule that may bear upon the facts presented , and change their entire ...
... contract , or torts , or equity , etc. , but when a case arises in real life he can never be sure that there is not lurking somewhere in the vast fields of law a rule that may bear upon the facts presented , and change their entire ...
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Page 272 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 315 - The same act which transfers their country transfers the allegiance of those who remain in it ; and the law which may be denominated political is necessarily changed, although that which regulates the intercourse and general conduct of individuals remains in force, until altered by the newly created power of the state.
Page 315 - Perhaps the power of governing a Territory belonging to the United States, which has not, by becoming a State, acquired the means of self-government, may result necessarily from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory.
Page 327 - They and their country are considered by foreign nations, as well as by ourselves, as being so completely under the sovereignty and dominion of the United States, that any attempt to acquire their lands, or to form a political connection with them, would be considered by all as an invasion of our territory and an act of hostility.
Page 334 - The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
Page 180 - Property, in its appropriate sense, means that dominion or indefinite right of user and disposition which one may lawfully exercise over particular things or subjects, and generally to the exclusion of all others...
Page 136 - ... the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate, by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated.
Page 286 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that th# preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National Government.
Page 286 - Not only therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may...
Page 314 - The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of the conquered territory as a mere military occupation, until its fate shall be determined at the treaty of peace. If it be ceded by the treaty, the acquisition is confirmed, and the ceded territory becomes a part of the nation to which it is annexed, either on the terms stipulated in the treaty of cession, or on such as its new master shall impose.