The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 20Bancroft-Whitney, 1877 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... damages , and ( 3 ) that evidence of the defendant's pecuniary circumstances was proper . A CTION to recover damages for injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the defendant's dog . The plaintiff , a boy seven years old , al- leged ...
... damages , and ( 3 ) that evidence of the defendant's pecuniary circumstances was proper . A CTION to recover damages for injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by the defendant's dog . The plaintiff , a boy seven years old , al- leged ...
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... damages at such sum as they should deem reasonable under all the circumstances of this case , and might also include exemplary damages if they found that defendant , in allow- ing his dog to run at large without muzzling , was guilty of ...
... damages at such sum as they should deem reasonable under all the circumstances of this case , and might also include exemplary damages if they found that defendant , in allow- ing his dog to run at large without muzzling , was guilty of ...
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... damages . On this point the court in- structed the jury that they might include in their verdict punitory or exemplary damages , providing they were satisfied from the evidence that the defendant had been guilty of gross and criminal ...
... damages . On this point the court in- structed the jury that they might include in their verdict punitory or exemplary damages , providing they were satisfied from the evidence that the defendant had been guilty of gross and criminal ...
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... damages occasioned by the unlawful seizure and deten- tion of the property in the pleadings mentioned , " and under a writ of inquiry to assess these damages , the jury found and assessed " the de- fendants ' damages for the detention ...
... damages occasioned by the unlawful seizure and deten- tion of the property in the pleadings mentioned , " and under a writ of inquiry to assess these damages , the jury found and assessed " the de- fendants ' damages for the detention ...
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... damages was not raised . If the plaintiffs owned and had possession of the land , and the original license had expired , and no new one was given , the decision that , in trespass quare clausum , upon the pleas of the general issue and ...
... damages was not raised . If the plaintiffs owned and had possession of the land , and the original license had expired , and no new one was given , the decision that , in trespass quare clausum , upon the pleas of the general issue and ...
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Page 755 - ... The taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Page 98 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 593 - We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well-ordered civil society, that every holder of property, however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated, that it shall not be injurious to the equal enjoyment of others, having an equal right to the enjoyment of their property, nor injurious to the rights of the community.
Page 12 - 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 423 - 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...
Page 423 - Now, if the special circumstances under which the contract was actually made, were communicated by the plaintiffs to the defendants, and thus known to both parties, the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances, so known and communicated.
Page 258 - The plaintiff sought to recover the value of such work as an item of damages, but the court held that the measure of damages was the difference between the value of the oxen at the time of the conversion and their value at the time they were retaken by the plaintiff.
Page 281 - The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the parties. A grant, in its own nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own grant.
Page 97 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 1 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle that wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it