Albany Law Journal, Volume 20Weed, Parsons & Company, 1879 - Law |
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... consideration of the question who can set up the defense of usury , see 13 Alb . Law Jour . 39 and 71 . In Carl v . The Sheboygan & Fon Da Lac R. R. Co. , recently decided by the Supreme Court of Wis- consin , the action was for a ...
... consideration of the question who can set up the defense of usury , see 13 Alb . Law Jour . 39 and 71 . In Carl v . The Sheboygan & Fon Da Lac R. R. Co. , recently decided by the Supreme Court of Wis- consin , the action was for a ...
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... CONSIDERATION . - After dissolution of a part- nership , a creditor holding the partnership note , agreed to accept the check and notes of one partner in full of his share of the partnership liability . The check and notes being ...
... CONSIDERATION . - After dissolution of a part- nership , a creditor holding the partnership note , agreed to accept the check and notes of one partner in full of his share of the partnership liability . The check and notes being ...
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... consideration . Here the enacting clause of both statutes is perfectly complete and the provisos making the exceptions follow as dis- tinct clauses of the statute . In such case it is not necessary to negative the exceptions in the ...
... consideration . Here the enacting clause of both statutes is perfectly complete and the provisos making the exceptions follow as dis- tinct clauses of the statute . In such case it is not necessary to negative the exceptions in the ...
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... consideration of all that can possibly affect the argument , as the observer of a storm at night looks at the vivid flash of lightning across the sky , whose brilliant coruscations charm and de- light the eye , but leave only a darker ...
... consideration of all that can possibly affect the argument , as the observer of a storm at night looks at the vivid flash of lightning across the sky , whose brilliant coruscations charm and de- light the eye , but leave only a darker ...
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... consideration of the jury , is scarcely consistent with later authorities . In the last of them , Parke , B ... considerations it was held that the jury might infer the necessary authority . In the later case of Edwards v . London and ...
... consideration of the jury , is scarcely consistent with later authorities . In the last of them , Parke , B ... considerations it was held that the jury might infer the necessary authority . In the later case of Edwards v . London and ...
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Page 71 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 86 - It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all.
Page 262 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 172 - No corporation shall issue stock or bonds, except for money paid, labor done or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock, or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 252 - That law, as re-enacted, after declaring that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance,...
Page 326 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 172 - Each stockholder of a corporation, or joint-stock association, shall be individually and personally liable for such proportion of all its debts and liabilities contracted or incurred, during the time he was a stockholder, as the amount of stock or shares owned by him bears to the whole of the subscribed capital stock, or shares of the corporation or association.
Page 332 - Hope, supra, that in determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence — such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act.
Page 175 - Its object shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation throughout the Union, uphold the honor of the profession of the law, and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the American Bar.
Page 260 - If a person entitled to bring an action die before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action...