Wisconsin Session Laws

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Page 77 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 95 - That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.
Page 48 - An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the 'swamp lands
Page 128 - Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Page 77 - ... and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 120 - No such partnership shall be deemed to have been formed until a certificate shall have been made, acknowledged, filed and recorded, nor until an affidavit shall have been filed as above directed; and if any false statement be made in such certificate or affidavit all the persons interested in such partnership shall be liable for all the engagements thereof as general partners.
Page 120 - Every alteration which shall be made in the names of the partners, in the nature of the business, or in the capital or shares thereof, or in any other matter specified in the original certificate, shall be deemed a dissolution of the partnership, and every such partnership which shall in any manner be carried on after any such alteration shall have been made, shall lie deemed a general partnership unless renewed as a special partnership according to the provisions of this act.
Page 94 - The time during which the person committing any of the offenses above mentioned is absent from the district wherein the same is committed shall not be taken as any part of the time limited by law for the commencement of such proceedings.
Page 135 - To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ¡States in Congress assembled: The memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin...
Page 118 - Such partnerships may consist of one or more such persons \vho shall be called general partners and who - shall be jointly and severally responsible as general partners now are by law, and of one or more persons who shall contribute in actual cash payments a specific sum as capital to the common stock...

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