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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... principles beyond their just application . Bona fide holders of commercial paper should be protected in all proper cases , but they are not the only parties who have rights which the courts are bound to respect . Nor does the principle ...
... principles beyond their just application . Bona fide holders of commercial paper should be protected in all proper cases , but they are not the only parties who have rights which the courts are bound to respect . Nor does the principle ...
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... principle are very similar to the act of 1870. Of course we do not intend to apply any epithet contained in the above extract to persons en- gaged in the business of hawkers and peddlers ; for we know that very many honest and highly ...
... principle are very similar to the act of 1870. Of course we do not intend to apply any epithet contained in the above extract to persons en- gaged in the business of hawkers and peddlers ; for we know that very many honest and highly ...
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... principle that it is competent for the legislature , in the exercise of that power , to prohibit entirely the act or business licensed , and the power to prohibit ( where the act or business is not malum in se ) includes the power to ...
... principle that it is competent for the legislature , in the exercise of that power , to prohibit entirely the act or business licensed , and the power to prohibit ( where the act or business is not malum in se ) includes the power to ...
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... principle or rule of law . This bridge was built by volunteers , without any authority from the de- fendant , and at least ten rods distant from any public highway . It was erected for the accommodation of the persons who built it ...
... principle or rule of law . This bridge was built by volunteers , without any authority from the de- fendant , and at least ten rods distant from any public highway . It was erected for the accommodation of the persons who built it ...
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... principle . In such circumstances as these , the natural feeling of the elder children should afford that protection to the younger , which courts cannot give without violation of judicial rule . And we can say of this case , as the ...
... principle . In such circumstances as these , the natural feeling of the elder children should afford that protection to the younger , which courts cannot give without violation of judicial rule . And we can say of this case , as the ...
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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