The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 53Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... liable for damages result- ing from such ejection , although the deceased may have been a trespasser on the train , and might have been legally ejected in a proper manner and at a proper place . WITNESSES - EXPERT TESTIMONY . - The ...
... liable for damages result- ing from such ejection , although the deceased may have been a trespasser on the train , and might have been legally ejected in a proper manner and at a proper place . WITNESSES - EXPERT TESTIMONY . - The ...
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... liable . The grantee in the conveyance must have an opportu nity to dispute the debt , and may plead any defense , rot merely per- sonal , which the grantor or debtor could have made against it . FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES - JUDGMENT AS EVI ...
... liable . The grantee in the conveyance must have an opportu nity to dispute the debt , and may plead any defense , rot merely per- sonal , which the grantor or debtor could have made against it . FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES - JUDGMENT AS EVI ...
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... liable for the payment of such contribution . It appeared from the allegations of the original bill that , in July , 1884 , Hall was appointed administrator of the estate of Stephen Dowty , de- ceased . The sureties on his ...
... liable for the payment of such contribution . It appeared from the allegations of the original bill that , in July , 1884 , Hall was appointed administrator of the estate of Stephen Dowty , de- ceased . The sureties on his ...
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... liable for loss . If the statute prohibits it , such an investment is a violation of good faith on his part . If the statute is silent as to investments , there is much difference of opinion as to whether an investment of such funds in ...
... liable for loss . If the statute prohibits it , such an investment is a violation of good faith on his part . If the statute is silent as to investments , there is much difference of opinion as to whether an investment of such funds in ...
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... liable in an action quare clausum , but it was ex- pressly decided that the defendant was not liable de bonis . The opinion is somewhat lengthy , and the respective rights and remedies of the parties , fully discussed . There is not a ...
... liable in an action quare clausum , but it was ex- pressly decided that the defendant was not liable de bonis . The opinion is somewhat lengthy , and the respective rights and remedies of the parties , fully discussed . There is not a ...
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Page 133 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 912 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally — ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself — or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 847 - This entire policy shall be void if the insured has concealed or misrepresented, in writing or otherwise, any material fact or circumstance concerning this insurance or the subject thereof, or if the interest of the insured in the property be not truly stated herein." "This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void * * if the interest of the insured be other than unconditional and sole ownership or if the subject of insurance be a building...
Page 161 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 234 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 912 - ... circumstances so known and communicated. But, on the other hand, if these special circumstances were wholly unknown to the party breaking the contract, he, at the most, could only be supposed to have had in his contemplation the amount of injury which would arise generally, and in the great multitude of cases not affected by any special circumstances, from such a breach of contract.
Page 72 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand...
Page 559 - ... to agree upon the manner, and upon the terms and conditions upon which the same may be used or occupied...
Page 328 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Page 233 - It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state only, yet it does not by any means follow that its existence there will not be recognized in other places ; and its residence in one state creates no insuperable objection to its power of contracting in another.