The Central Law Journal, Volume 9Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, 1879 - Law Vols. 65-96 include "Central law journal's international law list." |
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Page 241 - The test to determine whether one who renders service to another does so as a contractor or not is to ascertain whether he renders the service in the course of an independent occupation, representing the will of his employer only as to the result of his work, and not as to the means by which it is accomplished.
Page 47 - States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States...
Page 305 - Directors, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors shall determine.
Page 364 - When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence.
Page 217 - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page 232 - The damages must be such as may fairly be supposed to have entered into the contemplation of the parties when they made the contract, that is, must be such as might naturally be expected to follow its violation ; and they must be certain, both in their nature and in respect to the cause from which they proceed.
Page 129 - ... draft, bill of exchange, mortgage, Judgment or decree; or who makes any false entry In any book, report or statement of the association, with intent in either case to Injure or defraud the association...
Page 234 - 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 364 - Code undertook to abolish these distinctions by enacting that "every act whatever of man that causes damage to another, obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.
Page 170 - That the said party of the first part has hereby let and rented to the party of the second part, and the party of the second part has hereby hired and taken from the party of the first part...