Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 26state, 1874 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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A. P. Field administrator alleged amount annulled attorney Atwater & Co authority bank Bank of Louisiana barratry bill of exceptions bill of lading bond claim contract costs cotton creditors damages debt deceased declared defendant and appellant dismissed entitled evidence ex rel execution executor fieri facias filed garnishee ground Hart heirs husband injoined injunction interest intervenors issued judge a quo Judgment affirmed judgment in favor Judicial District Court jurisdiction land Live Oak plantation Louisiana LUDELING marriage MORGAN mortgage objection ordered owner paid parish court parish of Orleans parties payment person petition plaintiff and appellee plantation police jury possession PPEAL privilege proceedings purchased question record Rehearing refused rendered res judicata seized seizure sheriff Sixth District Court sold succession sued suit Superior District Court sureties TALIAFERRO thereof tion trial tutrix wife witnesses writ WYLY
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Page 98 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 101 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 508 - The rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things, as existing at the, same time...
Page 93 - ... the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 573 - In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the...
Page 627 - With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral -statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake ; the party himself either being misinformed or not having clearly expressed his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the...
Page 483 - In its governmental or public character, the corporation is made, by the state, one of its instruments, or the local depositary of certain limited and prescribed political powers, to be exercised for the public good on behalf of the state rather than for itself.
Page 93 - States, and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell hold and convey real and personal property and to...
Page 251 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 569 - Where the power which is exercised is legislative in its character, the courts can enforce only those limitations which the Constitution imposes, and not those implied restrictions which, resting in theory only, the people have been satisfied to leave to the judgment, patriotism, and sense of justice of their representatives.