Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, Volume 19M. Curlander, 1902 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... question have not been fully followed . There is nothing in our own law antagonistic to this course , and the result of the accounting , in our view of the case , would be the same under the law of the District of Columbia as under the ...
... question have not been fully followed . There is nothing in our own law antagonistic to this course , and the result of the accounting , in our view of the case , would be the same under the law of the District of Columbia as under the ...
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... question of the usurious character of the premium shares was not passed upon by the court . This question , however , was raised , and was distinctly ad- judicated in the subsequent case already mentioned of White v . Williams , which ...
... question of the usurious character of the premium shares was not passed upon by the court . This question , however , was raised , and was distinctly ad- judicated in the subsequent case already mentioned of White v . Williams , which ...
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... question of notice between the case of a municipal corporation and that of a private corporation , such as the appellant , the Washington Market Company . No authority for such contention is produced and none ex- ists . The general ...
... question of notice between the case of a municipal corporation and that of a private corporation , such as the appellant , the Washington Market Company . No authority for such contention is produced and none ex- ists . The general ...
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... question , whether it had provided and kept in the market - house such a patrol force as was reason- ably required for watching and keeping clear and safe the aisles and corridors of the building ; and if it had so provided , there was ...
... question , whether it had provided and kept in the market - house such a patrol force as was reason- ably required for watching and keeping clear and safe the aisles and corridors of the building ; and if it had so provided , there was ...
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... question was fully considered as to the rights of persons who , upon invitation , either express or implied , visit premises upon business which concerns the owner or occupier , the court said " that it was settled law that a visitor of ...
... question was fully considered as to the rights of persons who , upon invitation , either express or implied , visit premises upon business which concerns the owner or occupier , the court said " that it was settled law that a visitor of ...
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Page 330 - The power of the General Government over these remnants of a race once powerful, now weak and diminished in numbers, is necessary to their protection, as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell.
Page 309 - ... act may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed.
Page 435 - The reason and philosophy of the rule is, that when the mind of the legislator has been turned to the details of a subject and he has acted upon it, a subsequent statute in general terms or treating the subject...
Page 74 - It is a cardinal principle of our system of government that local affairs shall be managed by local authorities, and general affairs by the central authority, and hence, while the rule Is also fundamental that the power to make laws cannot be delegated, the creation of municipalities exercising local selfgovernment has never been held to trench upon that rule. Such legislation is not regarded as a transfer of general legislative power, but rather as...
Page 496 - It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be ' the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death.
Page 501 - That every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 436 - Any final judgment or decree of the said Court of Appeals may be reexamined and affirmed, reversed or modified, by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon writ of error or appeal, in all cases in which the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars...
Page 470 - In the Interpretation of all statutes levying taxes or duties upon subjects or citizens, not to extend their provisions, by implication, beyond the clear import of the language used, or to enlarge their operation so as to embrace matters not specifically pointed out, although standing upon a close analogy.
Page 71 - 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 447 - I mean quasi easements), or, in other words, all those easements which are necessary to the reasonable enjoyment of the property granted, and which have been and are at the time of the grant used by the owners of the entirety for the benefit of the part granted.