District and County Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in All the Judicial Districts of Pennsylvania, Volume 7Legal Intelligencer., 1926 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... payment of $ 25 a month , and , therefore , asks the court to vacate said order requiring him to make these payments for the support and maintenance of his children . After this petition had been presented , counsel representing the ...
... payment of $ 25 a month , and , therefore , asks the court to vacate said order requiring him to make these payments for the support and maintenance of his children . After this petition had been presented , counsel representing the ...
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... payment of his salary , prayed the court for a writ of man- damus , directed to the defendant , the Superintendent of Public Instruction , and the defendants , the Public School Employees ' Retirement Board , com- manding the ...
... payment of his salary , prayed the court for a writ of man- damus , directed to the defendant , the Superintendent of Public Instruction , and the defendants , the Public School Employees ' Retirement Board , com- manding the ...
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... payment of his salary unless he was reinstated by said board . We have no jurisdiction to compel the said board to reinstate him by writ of mandamus . It appearing that the plaintiff is no longer county superintendent of Delaware County ...
... payment of his salary unless he was reinstated by said board . We have no jurisdiction to compel the said board to reinstate him by writ of mandamus . It appearing that the plaintiff is no longer county superintendent of Delaware County ...
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... payment . More than two years having elapsed since the date of the payment of the tax , and there being no question of an overvaluation by reason of the estate having consisted in whole or in part of a partnership or other interest of ...
... payment . More than two years having elapsed since the date of the payment of the tax , and there being no question of an overvaluation by reason of the estate having consisted in whole or in part of a partnership or other interest of ...
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... payment . I reach this conclusion because of the imperative words of the statute . ' It has been made perfectly clear to me that this estate , as it was finally settled , paid several thousand dollars more tax than that to which the ...
... payment . I reach this conclusion because of the imperative words of the statute . ' It has been made perfectly clear to me that this estate , as it was finally settled , paid several thousand dollars more tax than that to which the ...
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Page 302 - Where the language of a statute, in its ordinary meaning and grammatical construction, leads to a manifest contradiction of the apparent purpose of the enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the meaning of the words, and even the structure of the sentence.
Page 332 - What constitutes a holder in due course. — A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions: (1) That it is complete and regular upon its face. (2) That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact. (3) That he took it in good faith and for value. (4) That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title...
Page 45 - J., observed that in order for it to apply "there must be reasonable evidence of negligence, but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen, if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendants, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 175 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Page 69 - The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public schools, wherein all the children of this Commonwealth, above the age of six years, may be educated, and shall appropriate at least one million dollars each year for that purpose.
Page 332 - Every holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course; but when it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims acquired the title as holder in due course.
Page 614 - A tax shall be and is hereby imposed upon the transfer of any property, real or personal...
Page 462 - ... shall include all other injuries sustained while the employee is actually engaged in the furtherance of the business or affairs of the employer, whether upon the employer's premises or elsewhere, and shall include all injuries caused by the condition of the premises or by the operation of the employer's business or affairs thereon sustained by the...
Page 156 - The rule of law upon this subject appears to be that, except where the Constitution has imposed limits upon the legislative power, It must be considered as practically absolute, whether it operate according to natural justice or not in any parr ticular case.
Page 339 - ... and such ways of egress and means of escape shall be kept free from obstruction, in good repair and ready for use. Every room above the second story...