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Page 73
... defendant's letter of August 10 , 1887 , which did not stipulate for payment in Fayette Coun- ty . The defendant interposed the same de- fense by special exception , and also especially excepted on the ground that the note set out in ...
... defendant's letter of August 10 , 1887 , which did not stipulate for payment in Fayette Coun- ty . The defendant interposed the same de- fense by special exception , and also especially excepted on the ground that the note set out in ...
Page 86
... defendant had signed the note as surety . On November 13 the bank notified the defendant that the note was overdue and unpaid , and that it should look to her for payment . On December 5 she orally promised the bank to secure the note ...
... defendant had signed the note as surety . On November 13 the bank notified the defendant that the note was overdue and unpaid , and that it should look to her for payment . On December 5 she orally promised the bank to secure the note ...
Page 116
... defendant there is not a a right to presume that it is safe for him to do syllable of positive testimony in ... defendant's third witness was the porter , who states , using his own words : " I recollect the time that Mr. Walker was said ...
... defendant there is not a a right to presume that it is safe for him to do syllable of positive testimony in ... defendant's third witness was the porter , who states , using his own words : " I recollect the time that Mr. Walker was said ...
Page 121
... defendant's neg- ligence . Reversed . The case sufficiently appears in the opinion . Mr. Andrew Zane for appellant ... defendant's second , third and fourth points . The manner of assigning these errors is wrong , as our rules require ...
... defendant's neg- ligence . Reversed . The case sufficiently appears in the opinion . Mr. Andrew Zane for appellant ... defendant's second , third and fourth points . The manner of assigning these errors is wrong , as our rules require ...
Page 127
... defendant from an order of the Superior Court for San Diego County re- fusing to dissolve an attachment . Affirmed . Commissioner's opinion . The case sufficiently appears in the opinion . Mr. F. W. Burnett , for appellant : A residence ...
... defendant from an order of the Superior Court for San Diego County re- fusing to dissolve an attachment . Affirmed . Commissioner's opinion . The case sufficiently appears in the opinion . Mr. F. W. Burnett , for appellant : A residence ...
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Page 160 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
Page 78 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 80 - In respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally (ie, according to the usual course of things) from such breach of contract Itself, or as such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 254 - The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.
Page 146 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws, in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace and of Constables ; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Page 252 - Knowledge and learning generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement, and to provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge, and equally open to all.
Page 61 - American foreign carrying-trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, relating to the limitations of the liability of the owners of vessels, shall apply to all sea-going vessels, and also to all vessels used on lakes or rivers or in inland navigation, including canal-boats, barges, and lighters.
Page 343 - The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable; and such schools shall be free and without charge for tuition to all children between the ages of four and twenty years, and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein.
Page 187 - Now, the power to regulate commerce embraces a vast field, containing not only many, but exceedingly various, subjects, quite unlike in their nature : some imperatively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of the United States in every port ; and some, like the subject now in question, as imperatively demanding that diversity which alone can meet the local necessities of navigation.
Page 146 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.