The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 11West Publishing Company, 1889 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 110 - It ordains that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the. laws.
Page 110 - No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States...
Page 372 - ... shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than one year...
Page 253 - In the construction of a pleading for the purpose of determining its effect, its allegations shall be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between the parties.
Page 104 - The judgment of the Circuit Court is therefore reversed, and the cause is to be remanded to the Circuit Court, with directions to award a venire facias de novo.
Page 166 - To admit such evidence is to violate the familiar rule that parol evidence is not admissible to vary the terms of a written contract.
Page 354 - Unless restrained by provisions of the federal Constitution, the power of the state, as to the mode, form, and extent of taxation, is unlimited where the subjects to which it applies are within [Cases on Const.
Page 420 - If the owner of a homestead die, leaving a widow but no children, the same shall be exempt, and the rents and profits thereof shall accrue to her benefit during the time of her widowhood, unless she be the owner of a homestead in her own right.
Page 169 - ... shall make and file therewith a bond, with good and sufficient surety, for his or their entering in such circuit court, on the first day of its, then next session, a copy of the record in such suit, and for paying all costs that may be awarded by said circuit court, if said court shall hold that such suit was wrongfully or improperly removed thereto, and also for their appearing and entering special bail in such suit, if special bail was originally requisite therein.
Page 319 - keep the engineer, fireman, or some other person upon the locomotive, always upon the lookout ahead ; and when any person, animal, or other obstruction appears upon the road, the alarm whistle shall be sounded, the brakes put down, and every possible means employed to stop the train and prevent an accident.