The New York Supplement, Volume 26

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West Publishing Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 173 - All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof, as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose. All other officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, and all officers whose offices may hereafter be created by law, shall be elected by the people, or appointed,...
Page 227 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of New York ; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 180 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted.
Page 702 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Page 168 - ... for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people...
Page 734 - That no creditor proving his debt or claim shall be allowed to maintain any suit at law or in equity therefor against the bankrupt, but shall be deemed to have waived all right of action and suit against the bankrupt, and all proceedings already commenced or unsatisfied judgments already- obtained thereon, shall be deemed to be discharged and surrendered thereby...
Page 276 - ... conclusive. If it passes an act ostensibly for the public health, and thereby destroys or takes away the property of a citizen, or Interferes with his personal liberty, then It is for the courts to scrutinize the act, and see whether It really relates to and Is convenient and appropriate to promote the public health.
Page 168 - Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote...
Page 188 - The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, cannot exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other case, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint and embraced within the issue.
Page 224 - The crime may be charged in separate counts to have been committed in a different manner or by different means ; and where the acts complained of may constitute different crimes, such crimes may be charged in separate counts.

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