The Eastern Reporter: Containing All the Decisions of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as Soon as They are Filed, with Statement of the Case, Volume 4

Front Cover
William Gould, 1886 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

Contents


Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 774 - Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.
Page 260 - The only general rule that can be laid down upon the subject is that the circumstances must be such as would lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and just man to the conclusion...
Page 737 - It is my will that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my estate as soon after my decease as shall be found practicable.
Page 85 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision. It is so clearly a provision for that race and that emergency that a strong case would be necessary for its application to any other.
Page 702 - All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, I give, devise, and bequeath unto...
Page 739 - Confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament in testimony whereof I Have Hereunto set my Hand and affixed my seal this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight Signed Sealed Published and Declared by Michael Keck the above named Testator as and for His Last will and testament...
Page 343 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Page 772 - The associate members shall be appointed by the governor by and with the consent and advice of the senate.
Page 739 - York, to have and to hold the same to them, their heirs and assigns, forever, as tenants in common, and *not as joint tenants.
Page 98 - Exceptional circumstances will modify the most carefully guarded rule ; but, as a general thing, we should say that the compensation to the owner is to be estimated by reference to the uses for which the property is suitable, having regard to the existing business or wants of the community, or such as may be reasonably expected in the immediate future.

Bibliographic information