The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 56Bancroft-Whitney, 1887 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 129
... Assignment for creditors- taxes . Property in the hands of an assignee for the benefit of creditors is liable for the taxes of the assignor , although assigned before the tax books were placed in the hands of the collector . Sum UIT for ...
... Assignment for creditors- taxes . Property in the hands of an assignee for the benefit of creditors is liable for the taxes of the assignor , although assigned before the tax books were placed in the hands of the collector . Sum UIT for ...
Page 131
... assignment . " The same principle is referred to with approval in the subsequent case of Dennis v . Maynard , 15 Ill . 477 . The assignment simply placed the property in the hands of the assignees for the payment of debts , as it was in ...
... assignment . " The same principle is referred to with approval in the subsequent case of Dennis v . Maynard , 15 Ill . 477 . The assignment simply placed the property in the hands of the assignees for the payment of debts , as it was in ...
Page 132
... assignment , from which it can be seen this tax can be paid . The objection is made now for the first time . It is purely technical . There is no question in re- spect of the fact . No injustice is done by holding in conformity with our ...
... assignment , from which it can be seen this tax can be paid . The objection is made now for the first time . It is purely technical . There is no question in re- spect of the fact . No injustice is done by holding in conformity with our ...
Page 157
... assignment of the lease during the term and receives rent as such assignee during said term ; and had this action been commenced by Sohn , who became the landlord of the defend- ant , and received rent from him during the term , there ...
... assignment of the lease during the term and receives rent as such assignee during said term ; and had this action been commenced by Sohn , who became the landlord of the defend- ant , and received rent from him during the term , there ...
Page 192
... assignment was accordingly executed in duplicate , one being forwarded to the company , the other retained by A. , who also retained the policy and paid all the pre- miums . No breach of the official bond ever occurred . Held , that ...
... assignment was accordingly executed in duplicate , one being forwarded to the company , the other retained by A. , who also retained the policy and paid all the pre- miums . No breach of the official bond ever occurred . Held , that ...
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Page 364 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 881 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Page 464 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 594 - person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Page 716 - 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 95 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 54 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been...
Page 121 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission and delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Page 54 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Page 527 - Provided, that in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead...