The Eastern Reporter: Containing All the Decisions of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, ... as Soon as They are Filed, with Statement of the Case, Volume 3William Gould, 1886 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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The Eastern Reporter: Containing All the Decisions of the States of Maine ... John T Cook No preview available - 2015 |
The Eastern Reporter: Containing All the Decisions of the States of Maine ... John T Cook No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 166 - The compensation of county officers shall be regulated by law, and all county officers who are or may be salaried shall pay all fees which they may be authorized to receive, into the treasury of the county or State, as may be directed by law. In counties containing over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants all county officers shall be paid by salary, and the salary of any such officer and his clerks, heretofore paid by fees, shall not exceed the aggregate amount of fees earned during his term...
Page 599 - A criminal action, prosecuted by indictment, may be removed from the court in which it is pending, on the application of the defendant, on the ground that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where the indictment is pending.
Page 327 - ... contain an assent on the part of the appellant, that if the order be affirmed, judgment absolute shall be rendered against the appellant.
Page 166 - Regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts...
Page 595 - And generally shall minister justice to all persons and exercise the jurisdictions and powers hereby granted concerning all and singular the premises, according to law, as fully and amply to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the justices of the courts of King's Bench, common pleas and exchequer at Westminster, or any of them, may or can do.
Page 210 - No private or local bill, which may be passed by the Legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 700 - Engineer shall be final and conclusive in any dispute which may arise between the parties to this agreement, relative to or touching the same, and each and every...
Page 231 - ... but in no case amounting to more than a circumstance of suspicion, demanding the vigilant care and circumspection of the court in investigating the case, and calling upon it not to grant probate without full and entire satisfaction that the instrument did express the real intentions of the deceased.
Page 68 - In order to obtain the moneys arising from the policy it must be assigned by the defendants or by operation of the decree appointing the receiver and directing the assignment. The current of authorities has been uniform in favor of the position that policies of this character are not assignable. Eddie v. Slimmon, 26 K . Y. 10 ; Barry v. Equitable Life, 59 id. 594 ; Barry v. Brune, 71
Page 610 - No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of his life or limb...