The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869, Volume 99Bancroft-Whitney, 1888 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 55
... duty to determine which seems to us to have the better reason . The plaintiff gave a land contract , by which he sold and agreed to convey the land described on compliance by the purchaser with the conditions to be performed on his part ...
... duty to determine which seems to us to have the better reason . The plaintiff gave a land contract , by which he sold and agreed to convey the land described on compliance by the purchaser with the conditions to be performed on his part ...
Page 60
... duty . The main object of the agency was to do an act criminal by our statute ( R. S. , sec . 2 , c . 169 ) , -to engage " in a traffic not merely forbidden , but fraudulent and indictable . " And if the agent is dishonest in the trans ...
... duty . The main object of the agency was to do an act criminal by our statute ( R. S. , sec . 2 , c . 169 ) , -to engage " in a traffic not merely forbidden , but fraudulent and indictable . " And if the agent is dishonest in the trans ...
Page 104
... duty to return de- fective machine or other article within a reasonable time after discovery of its defects , where he wishes to rescind , see Osborn v . Stanley , 85 Id . 347 ; note to Hoe v . Sanborn , 78 Id . 176 ; Reed v . Randall ...
... duty to return de- fective machine or other article within a reasonable time after discovery of its defects , where he wishes to rescind , see Osborn v . Stanley , 85 Id . 347 ; note to Hoe v . Sanborn , 78 Id . 176 ; Reed v . Randall ...
Page 118
... duty of the agent to make it , and bind the company . We were requested to pass upon the question of the author- ity of the agent to make a time contract , and we have done so , although not strictly necessary in the disposition of this ...
... duty of the agent to make it , and bind the company . We were requested to pass upon the question of the author- ity of the agent to make a time contract , and we have done so , although not strictly necessary in the disposition of this ...
Page 119
... duty and right of the objecting party to have the charge specifically applied to every point arising on the evidence , and to call the attention of the court to the omission or other defect , and to request further or specific ...
... duty and right of the objecting party to have the charge specifically applied to every point arising on the evidence , and to call the attention of the court to the omission or other defect , and to request further or specific ...
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Popular passages
Page 61 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 87 - The principle is that where the owner of two tenements sells one of them, or the owner of an entire estate sells a portion, the purchaser takes the tenement or portion sold, with all the benefits and burdens which appear at the time of the sale, to belong to it, as between it and the property which the vendor retains.
Page 654 - Where, however, the allegation of the claim or defense to which the proof is directed, is unproved, not in some particular or particulars only, but in its general scope and meaning, it is not to be deemed a case of variance, within the last two sections, but a failure of proof.
Page 439 - June, no Writ of Fieri facias, or other Writ of Execution, shall bind the Property of the Goods against whom such Writ of Execution is sued forth, but from the Time that such Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroners, to be executed...
Page 663 - The general rule is that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the state in which it is made; if...
Page 299 - ... provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent a division and distribution of the capital stock of the company, which shall remain after the payment of all its debts, upon the dissolution of the corporation or the expiration of its charter.
Page 343 - ... every such conveyance not so recorded shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real estate or any portion thereof whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded.
Page 632 - On the contrary, although he may be laboring under partial insanity, if he still understands the nature and character of his act, and its consequences; if he has a knowledge that it is wrong and criminal, and a mental power sufficient to apply that knowledge to his own case, and to know that, if he does the act, he will do wrong and receive punishment; such partial insanity is not sufficient to exempt him from responsibility for criminal acts.
Page 153 - ... in all cases where a condition of a bond, recognizance, &c., is possible at the time of the making of the condition, and, before the same can be performed, the condition becomes impossible by the act of God, or of the law, or of the obligee, &c., there, the obligation, Sic., is saved.
Page 354 - An act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States...