Reports of Select Cases Decided in the Courts of New York: Not Heretofore Reported, Or Reported Only PartiallyDiossy, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... brought up for sentence he pleaded , as his excuse , that he did not know there was such a law ; he had thought it was a free country when he came to it , but he didn't think there was much freedom in it with such laws . Jackson v ...
... brought up for sentence he pleaded , as his excuse , that he did not know there was such a law ; he had thought it was a free country when he came to it , but he didn't think there was much freedom in it with such laws . Jackson v ...
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... brought on the notes . Edmonds , J. , held that the plaintiffs could not recover on the notes , because their right to them had never become abso- lute ; that their only remedy was on the special agreement of the defendants to accept ...
... brought on the notes . Edmonds , J. , held that the plaintiffs could not recover on the notes , because their right to them had never become abso- lute ; that their only remedy was on the special agreement of the defendants to accept ...
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... brought on a promissory note signed by S. W. Haight & Co. , and was given for a bill of goods bought of the plaintiffs in 1843 . It appeared on the trial that a firm , under the style of S. W. Haight & Co. , had been doing business in ...
... brought on a promissory note signed by S. W. Haight & Co. , and was given for a bill of goods bought of the plaintiffs in 1843 . It appeared on the trial that a firm , under the style of S. W. Haight & Co. , had been doing business in ...
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... brought before me , the com- mitting magistrate had refused to let a party to bail who was accused merely of a breach of the peace , thus arbitrarily , and as it was insisted before me , without the possibility of review or correction ...
... brought before me , the com- mitting magistrate had refused to let a party to bail who was accused merely of a breach of the peace , thus arbitrarily , and as it was insisted before me , without the possibility of review or correction ...
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... brought shall examine into the facts contained in the return , and into the cause of the imprisonment , and remand , bail , or discharge , as the case shall require , and to justice shall appertain . ( Laws of 1818 , ch . 277 , p . 298 ...
... brought shall examine into the facts contained in the return , and into the cause of the imprisonment , and remand , bail , or discharge , as the case shall require , and to justice shall appertain . ( Laws of 1818 , ch . 277 , p . 298 ...
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Page 112 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 341 - When perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual : "3.
Page 109 - ... to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or...
Page 302 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2. By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without...
Page 112 - ... Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued...
Page 104 - No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action.
Page 112 - ... although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 343 - If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 292 - The killing of a human being, unless it is excusable or justifiable, is murder in the first degree, when committed : 1. From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2.
Page 185 - ... undoubted authority to control all persons and things within, their own territorial limits. When, therefore, both parties to a suit in a foreign country, are...