Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, Volume 34Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, Robert Graves Morrow, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron West Publishing Company, 1900 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 351 - Undoubtedly compensation must be made or secured to the owner when that which is done is to be regarded as a taking of private property for public use...
Page 497 - Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court issuing the subpoena.
Page 296 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 3 - An action does not abate by the death, marriage or other disability of a party, or by the transfer of any interest therein, if the cause of action survive or continue.
Page 424 - With the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education, the governing board of any district authorized to establish and maintain a junior college may...
Page 296 - When a thing which causes injury is shown to be under the management of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable 1 48 Am. St. Rep. 146. evidence, in the absence of explanation, by the defendant, that the accident arose from a want of care.
Page 175 - The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice.
Page 565 - The exercise of the mere discretion of the court ought to tend in a reasonable degree, at least, to bring about a judgment on the very merits of the case ; and when the circumstances are such as to lead the court to hesitate upon the motion to open the default, it is better, as a general rule, that the doubt should be resolved in favor of the application.
Page 107 - To give a third party who may derive a benefit from the performance of the promise. an action, there must be, first, an intent by the promisee to secure some benefit to the third party, and second, some privity between the two, the promisee and the party to be benefited, and some obligation or duty owing from the former to the latter which would give him a legal or equitable claim to the benefit of the promise or an equivalent from him personally.
Page 108 - The doctrine of equitable conversion rests on the presumed intention of the owner of the property and on the maxim that equity regards as done what ought to be done.