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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... consideration , on the one hand , Mrs. A.'s drafts and receipts for her income at the reduced rate of interest , and , on the other , the fact of the trustees having made their payments without charging commissions , and how far those ...
... consideration , on the one hand , Mrs. A.'s drafts and receipts for her income at the reduced rate of interest , and , on the other , the fact of the trustees having made their payments without charging commissions , and how far those ...
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... consideration in favor of allowing the per- centage in such cases . The amount of costs allowed by the Code is so small , that where the amount claimed is large , great temptation is held out to the debtor to put in an answer to obtain ...
... consideration in favor of allowing the per- centage in such cases . The amount of costs allowed by the Code is so small , that where the amount claimed is large , great temptation is held out to the debtor to put in an answer to obtain ...
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... considerations the jury must determine whether it was not the prisoner who fired the pistol , and , in determining it , they must bear in mind that the evidence to satisfy them . must exclude , to a moral certainty , every hypothesis ...
... considerations the jury must determine whether it was not the prisoner who fired the pistol , and , in determining it , they must bear in mind that the evidence to satisfy them . must exclude , to a moral certainty , every hypothesis ...
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... considerations , to speak the truth . This rule stands on the ground of public necessity of pre- serving the lives of ... consideration for them . Although the court , in admitting the evidence of the declara- tions , had of necessity ...
... considerations , to speak the truth . This rule stands on the ground of public necessity of pre- serving the lives of ... consideration for them . Although the court , in admitting the evidence of the declara- tions , had of necessity ...
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... consideration in behalf of the prisoner was to be regarded . It was urged , and was attempted to be proved , that , at the time , he was too drunk to know what he was about . Now , though the rule is well established that intoxi- cation ...
... consideration in behalf of the prisoner was to be regarded . It was urged , and was attempted to be proved , that , at the time , he was too drunk to know what he was about . Now , though the rule is well established that intoxi- cation ...
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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...