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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... means of obtaining substantial justice into an engine of op- pression . It was , in fact , a fraud upon the law , and surely is a case in which , if ever , the discretion of the court , under section 263 of the Code , ought to be ...
... means of obtaining substantial justice into an engine of op- pression . It was , in fact , a fraud upon the law , and surely is a case in which , if ever , the discretion of the court , under section 263 of the Code , ought to be ...
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... means " legitimate children , " if there are any ; and evidence dehors the will will not be admitted to show the testator's inten- tion to be otherwise . INCREASE CROSBY , by his last will , devised as follows : " I will and bequeath to ...
... means " legitimate children , " if there are any ; and evidence dehors the will will not be admitted to show the testator's inten- tion to be otherwise . INCREASE CROSBY , by his last will , devised as follows : " I will and bequeath to ...
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... means of ascertaining on what the indictment is predicated . But where a person is committed on a coroner's inquest , or by the examin- ing magistrate , it is not only proper , on habeas corpus , to look into the original depositions ...
... means of ascertaining on what the indictment is predicated . But where a person is committed on a coroner's inquest , or by the examin- ing magistrate , it is not only proper , on habeas corpus , to look into the original depositions ...
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... means of this writ the officers who were author- ized to allow it were , by its very nature , clothed with a certain revisory power over those by whose mandate any person might be restrained of his liberty . The earnest manner in which ...
... means of this writ the officers who were author- ized to allow it were , by its very nature , clothed with a certain revisory power over those by whose mandate any person might be restrained of his liberty . The earnest manner in which ...
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... mean the police law relative to this city , passed in 1844 , the legislature have gone some ways to sanction the same doctrine , so that , with this positive enactment in the police law , and this con- struction of the habeas corpus act ...
... mean the police law relative to this city , passed in 1844 , the legislature have gone some ways to sanction the same doctrine , so that , with this positive enactment in the police law , and this con- struction of the habeas corpus act ...
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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...