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 51Bancroft-Whitney, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... ground - work of plaintiff's argument is that a procuration or mandate is gratuitous unless there has been a contrary agreement ( C. C. , art . 2991 ) ; and that jurisprudence has settled the rule that directors and other officers of ...
... ground - work of plaintiff's argument is that a procuration or mandate is gratuitous unless there has been a contrary agreement ( C. C. , art . 2991 ) ; and that jurisprudence has settled the rule that directors and other officers of ...
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... ground that it is exempt from taxation under the provisions of article 207 of the Constitution of 1879 . The ... grounds for improvements in case the city should increase . That was the reason of the pur- chase . They were purchased ...
... ground that it is exempt from taxation under the provisions of article 207 of the Constitution of 1879 . The ... grounds for improvements in case the city should increase . That was the reason of the pur- chase . They were purchased ...
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... ground for improvements in case the city should increase . " The anticipated in- The expansion of the The necessity for the The property has been beld for ten years . crease of the city has not taken place . church's field and needs has ...
... ground for improvements in case the city should increase . " The anticipated in- The expansion of the The necessity for the The property has been beld for ten years . crease of the city has not taken place . church's field and needs has ...
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... ground of the decision being that where one of the married couple is French , and the other a foreigner , they are , in the absence of a contract , governed by the law of the conjugal domicile ; that the intention of the parties is to ...
... ground of the decision being that where one of the married couple is French , and the other a foreigner , they are , in the absence of a contract , governed by the law of the conjugal domicile ; that the intention of the parties is to ...
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... ground on which the parties were consciously dealing , and therefore they form a proper basis for determining whether or not one was reposing confidence in the other . Here then , the seller sees that the buyer is trusting him , and ...
... ground on which the parties were consciously dealing , and therefore they form a proper basis for determining whether or not one was reposing confidence in the other . Here then , the seller sees that the buyer is trusting him , and ...
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Page 434 - 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 in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 811 - Duress, in its more extended sense, means that degree of constraint or danger, either actually inflicted or threatened and impending, which is sufficient, in severity or in apprehension, to overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary firmness.* Opinion of the court.
Page 785 - The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station...
Page 694 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 276 - It may be defined to be a transfer of the absolute or general property In a thing for a price in money.
Page 146 - ... or any other officer of the state, except legislative and judicial, elective or appointed, and to appoint a successor for the remainder of their respective unexpired term of office, and report the causes of such removal to the legislature, at its next session.
Page 696 - To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same ; and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist Seventy-sixth — To appoint a board of health, and prescribe its powers and duties.
Page 722 - Now, if the special circumstances under which the contract was actually made were communicated by the plaintiffs to the defendants, and thus known to both parties, 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 800 - Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money...
Page 800 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...