Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, Volume 8Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, George Henry Burnett, Julius Augustus Stratton, Robert Graves Morrow, William Henry Holmes, James W. Crawford, Reuben S. Strahan, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron West Publishing Company, 1880 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... interest and estate . ( 1 Wash . on Real Prop . 179 ; 5 Or . 204 ; 1 Sawyer , 253 ; Id . 273 ; 4 Or . 155. ) Where a donation claimant dies before patent issues , and before final proof , the land does not descend to his heirs as such ...
... interest and estate . ( 1 Wash . on Real Prop . 179 ; 5 Or . 204 ; 1 Sawyer , 253 ; Id . 273 ; 4 Or . 155. ) Where a donation claimant dies before patent issues , and before final proof , the land does not descend to his heirs as such ...
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... interest of the de- ceased in equal portions . " If they take an equal portion and not by descent from the deceased , but by purchase as the donees from the United States , then the widow or re- spondent in this case can take no dower ...
... interest of the de- ceased in equal portions . " If they take an equal portion and not by descent from the deceased , but by purchase as the donees from the United States , then the widow or re- spondent in this case can take no dower ...
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... interest of one of the children , Hannah Browning , and received a deed for her interest in said south half of said donation land claim , which south half was set off to the heirs of said Hugh Love . This being a suit for a partition of ...
... interest of one of the children , Hannah Browning , and received a deed for her interest in said south half of said donation land claim , which south half was set off to the heirs of said Hugh Love . This being a suit for a partition of ...
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... interest , amounted to one hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty - five cents , and the execution referred to in the complaint was in a suit wherein Ladd & Tilton were plaintiffs , A. B. Hallock defendant , and the Bank of British ...
... interest , amounted to one hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty - five cents , and the execution referred to in the complaint was in a suit wherein Ladd & Tilton were plaintiffs , A. B. Hallock defendant , and the Bank of British ...
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... interest therein , or had any title thereto ; that Prescott had knowledge of each of said conveyances at the time they were made , and made no objection thereto , and has been living in and near said town of Union ever since 1865 most ...
... interest therein , or had any title thereto ; that Prescott had knowledge of each of said conveyances at the time they were made , and made no objection thereto , and has been living in and near said town of Union ever since 1865 most ...
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Page 359 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects, respectively, from the one country to the other, for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 271 - The court may determine any controversy between parties before it, when it can be done without prejudice to the rights of others, or by saving their rights ; but when a complete determination of the controversy cannot be had without the presence of other parties, the court must order them to be brought in.
Page 377 - ... all remedial statutes; the old law, the mischief, and the remedy: that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act; what the mischief was, for which the common law did not provide; and what remedy the parliament hath provided to cure this mischief. And it is the business of the judges so to construe the act as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy (ej.
Page 454 - We are of opinion, therefore, that there was no error in the refusal of the court to charge the jury as requested by the plaintiff in error or in the charge given to the jury.
Page 377 - A subsequent statute revising the whole subject-matter of a former one, and evidently intended as a substitute for it, although it contains no express words to that effect, must on principles of law, as well as in reason and common sense, operate to repeal the former.
Page 412 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Page 414 - Regulating the practice in courts of Justice; Providing for changing the venue In civil and criminal cases; Granting divorces; Changing the names of persons; For laying out, opening and workIng on, highways, and for the election or appointment of supervisors...
Page 20 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 341 - The General Assembly shall provide, by law, for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be specially exempted by law.
Page 218 - No person shall be rendered incompetent as a witness or juror in consequence of his opinions on matters of religion, nor be questioned in any court of justice touching his religious belief, to affect the weight of his testimony.