Massachusetts Reports, Volume 212H.O. Houghton and Company, 1913 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 128 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 320 - ... the award in writing by a majority of the referees shall be conclusive and final upon the parties as to the amount of loss or damage, and such reference unless waived by the parties shall be a condition precedent to any right of action in law or equity to recover for such loss...
Page 207 - By a valid tender of payment made by a prior party; 5. By a release of the principal debtor, unless the holder's right of recourse against the party secondarily liable is expressly reserved ; 6. By any agreement binding upon the holder to extend the time of payment, or to postpone the holder's right to enforce the instrument, unless made with the assent of the party secondarily liable, or unless the right of recourse against such party is expressly reserved.
Page 480 - In Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. Park & Sons Co., 220 US 373, 31 Sup.
Page 311 - ... sixty days after due notice and proof of the death of the said assured during the continuance and before the termination of this policy. For the benefit of his widow, if any.
Page 319 - In case of any loss or damage under this policy, a STATEMENT in writing, signed and sworn to by the insured shall be forthwith rendered to the company...
Page 414 - Lordships have in these circumstances, and upon these considerations, come to the conclusion that, according to international law, the domicile for the time being of the married pair affords the only true test of jurisdiction to dissolve their marriage.
Page 557 - I give, bequeath and devise all the rest, residue and remainder' of my estate of every description, of which I shall die seised and possessed.
Page 482 - The very object of these laws is monopoly, and the rule is, with few exceptions, that any conditions which are not in their very nature illegal with regard to this kind of property, imposed by the patentee and agreed to by the licensee for the right to manufacture or use or sell the article, will be upheld by the courts. The fact that the conditions in the contracts keep up the monopoly or fix prices does not render them illegal.
Page 166 - Whenever any person or corporation shall exercise a power of appointment derived from any disposition of property made either before or after the passage of this act, such appointment when made shall be deemed a transfer taxable under the provisions of this act in the same manner as though the property to which such appointment relates belonged absolutely to the donee of such power and had been bequeathed or devised...