Pittsburgh Reports, Volume 1Boyd Crumrine J. Campbell, 1872 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... present time , having been most generally under the editorial care and management of T. J. KEENAN , Esq . , the well known and efficient Prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania . Throughout its volumes ...
... present time , having been most generally under the editorial care and management of T. J. KEENAN , Esq . , the well known and efficient Prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania . Throughout its volumes ...
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... presents the main point for your inquiry . Were the de- fendant's vessels moored in such manner as to offer unnecessary trouble and inconvenience to the plaintiff in crossing the river , and were they kept so moored for an unreasonable ...
... presents the main point for your inquiry . Were the de- fendant's vessels moored in such manner as to offer unnecessary trouble and inconvenience to the plaintiff in crossing the river , and were they kept so moored for an unreasonable ...
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... present case , the time for pleading a dilatory plea is not only gone by , but the defendant has pleaded in bar - the cause is at issue - parties have taken their depositions and prepared for trial at this , the second term . No ...
... present case , the time for pleading a dilatory plea is not only gone by , but the defendant has pleaded in bar - the cause is at issue - parties have taken their depositions and prepared for trial at this , the second term . No ...
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... present action accordingly brought . The case was argued by Messrs . Shaler and Umbstaetter for the plaintiffs , who cited 10 S. & R. 10 and 4 Barr 32. They contended that the draft was an actual transfer of the amount of $ 800 in the ...
... present action accordingly brought . The case was argued by Messrs . Shaler and Umbstaetter for the plaintiffs , who cited 10 S. & R. 10 and 4 Barr 32. They contended that the draft was an actual transfer of the amount of $ 800 in the ...
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... , better than any before known . Assuming for the present that the patentee is the original in- ventor of the subject - matter of this patent ( of which the patent is primâ facie evidence ) , and that it is 32 RICH v . LIPPINCOTT .
... , better than any before known . Assuming for the present that the patentee is the original in- ventor of the subject - matter of this patent ( of which the patent is primâ facie evidence ) , and that it is 32 RICH v . LIPPINCOTT .
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Page 400 - If it shall be necessary, in the location of any part of any railroad, to occupy any road, street, alley, or public way or ground of any kind, or any part thereof, it shall be competent for the municipal or other corporation, or public officer or public authorities, owning or having charge thereof, and the railroad company, to agree upon the manner, and upon the terms and conditions upon which the same may be used or occupied...
Page 25 - That if any person shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging or counterfeiting any...
Page 515 - There is no power, the exercise of which is more delicate, which requires greater caution, deliberation' and sound discretion, or is more dangerous in a doubtful case, than the issuing an injunction.
Page 26 - That no person who shall arrive in the United States from and after the time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States who shall not for the continued term of five years next preceding his admission as aforesaid, have resided within the United States, without being at any time during the Haid five years out of the territory of the United States.
Page 71 - If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves alone do in such case best declare the intention of the lawgiver.
Page 303 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree...
Page 409 - The true principle undoubtedly is, that the sound interpretation and meaning of the statute, on a view of the enacting clause, saving clause, and proviso, taken and construed together, is to prevail. If the principal object of the act can be accomplished and stand. under the restriction of the saving clause or proviso, the same is not to be held void for repugnancy.
Page 462 - Bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or -purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust Story, Bailm.
Page 172 - That he has assigned, removed or disposed of, or is about to dispose of, any of his property, with the intent to defraud his creditors; or 4.
Page 303 - ... or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...