The Central Law Journal, Volume 26Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, 1888 - Law Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list". |
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Page 159 - ... repair, such township, village, city or corporation shall be liable to and shall pay to the person or persons so injured or disabled just damages, to be recovered in an action of trespass on the case before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 334 - The office and jurisdiction of a court of equity, unless enlarged by express statute, are limited to the protection of rights of property. It has no jurisdiction over the prosecution, the punishment, or the pardon of crimes or misdemeanors, or over the appointment and removal of public officers.
Page 31 - All elections shall be free; and there shall be no hindrance or impediment to the right of a qualified voter to exercise the elective franchise.
Page 386 - A demurrer to this answer was sustained, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff; and the defendants sued out this writ of error. Mr. Justice Gray, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court : The question presented by the record is whether...
Page 80 - ... argument, I am aware, is, that, the moment the house is built, it belongs to the owner of the land by mere operation of law ; and that he may certainly possess and enjoy his own. But this is merely stating the technical rule of law, by which the true owner seeks to hold, what, in a just sense, he never had the slightest title to, that is, the house. It is not answering the objection ; but merely and dryly stating, that the law so holds. But, then, admitting this to be so, does it not furnish...
Page 31 - ... no vote shall be received at any *££»««» annual election in this state, unless the name of the person «$•££•? offering to vote be on the said registry...
Page 210 - Actual annexation to the realty, or something appurtenant thereto; (2) application to the use or purpose to which that part of the realty with which it is connected is appropriated; and (3) the intention of the party making the annexation to make a permanent accession to the freehold.
Page 344 - Thurlow said, that to set aside a conveyance, there must be an inequality, so strong, gross and manifest, that it must be impossible to state it to a man of common sense without producing an exclamation at the inequality of it.
Page 282 - ... to the party who seeks it, if he has not been grossly negligent, and comes within a reasonable time, although he has not complied with the strict terms of the contract. But in all such cases, the court expects the party to make out a case free from all doubt ; and to show that the relief which he asks is, under all the circumstances, equitable ; and to account in a reasonable manner for his delay, and apparent omission of his duty.
Page 362 - ... where the primary debt subsists and was antecedently contracted, the promise to pay it is original when it is founded on a new consideration moving to the promisor and beneficial to him, and such that the promisor thereby comes under an independent duty of payment irrespective of the liability of the principal debtor.