The Central Law Journal, Volume 18Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, 1884 - Law Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list". |
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Page 431 - ... 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 429 - 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...
Page 253 - ... duty of the executive authority of the state or territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
Page 152 - No principle of the common law has been better established, or more often affirmed, both In this country and In England, than that In sales of personal property, in the absence of express warranty, where the buyer has an opportunity to Inspect the commodity, and the seller Is guilty of no fraud, and is neither the manufacturer nor grower of the article he sells, the maxim of caveat emptor applies.
Page 280 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 255 - State, in view of the constitutional requirement, that "full faith and credit" shall be given in each State to "the records and judicial proceedings of every other State.
Page 28 - Act, and if they find in the preamble, or in any particular clause, an expression not so large and extensive in its import as those used in other parts of the Act...
Page 110 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 14 - This was an action on the case to recover damages for the loss of a...
Page 222 - Congress, as the legislature of a sovereign nation, being expressly empowered by the constitution "to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States," and "to borrow money on the credit of the United States...