Virginia Appeals: Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 14Appeals Press, 1917 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 401 - All corporations, whether they expire by their own limitation, or are otherwise dissolved, shall nevertheless be continued for the term of three years from such expiration or dissolution bodies corporate for the purpose of prosecuting and defending suits by or against them, and of enabling them gradually to settle and close their...
Page 409 - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page 600 - The Court instructs the jury that if you believe from the evidence in this case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant...
Page 45 - A cancellation made unintentionally or under a mistake, or without the authority of the holder, is inoperative; but where an instrument or any signature thereon appears to have been cancelled, the burden of proof lies on the party who alleges that the cancellation was made unintentionally, or under a mistake or without authority.
Page 598 - That, in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty...
Page 169 - The words of a contract are to be understood in their ordinary and popular sense, rather than according to their strict legal meaning; unless used by the parties in a technical sense, or unless a special meaning is given to them by usage, in which case the latter must be followed.
Page 3 - ... remise, release, and forever discharge the said successors and assigns, heirs, executors, and administrators, of and from all, and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of action, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings...
Page 58 - ... in case of such discontinuance of the employment of the Contractor he shall not be entitled to any further payment under this contract until the said work shall be wholly finished...
Page 55 - ... a confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it...
Page 378 - Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine, within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly to be a physician and to prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters