California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of the State of California, Volume 19Bancroft-Whitney, 1925 - Law |
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... Persons Using Streets Generally . — All travelers owe reciprocal duties to each other , and each is bound to use reasonable ... person on the street and to guide himself or the vehicle he is driving , has a right to expect that others ...
... Persons Using Streets Generally . — All travelers owe reciprocal duties to each other , and each is bound to use reasonable ... person on the street and to guide himself or the vehicle he is driving , has a right to expect that others ...
Page 84
... person is bound to take reasonable care for his own safety , 12 but he frequently must , to some extent , de- pend on others , and his conduct will be considered in view of that fact in determining the question of negligence.13 § 430 ...
... person is bound to take reasonable care for his own safety , 12 but he frequently must , to some extent , de- pend on others , and his conduct will be considered in view of that fact in determining the question of negligence.13 § 430 ...
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... person is there for other purposes does not justify a trespass committed upon his person ; the fact that one may be playing in the street may be material , but still the inquiry would be what happened and what was done and not for what ...
... person is there for other purposes does not justify a trespass committed upon his person ; the fact that one may be playing in the street may be material , but still the inquiry would be what happened and what was done and not for what ...
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... persons or property from injury is negligence per se . 15 The violation of an ordinance is a breach of duty toward the person injured by such violation ; it is presumptively an act of negligence and conclusively so until rebutted by ...
... persons or property from injury is negligence per se . 15 The violation of an ordinance is a breach of duty toward the person injured by such violation ; it is presumptively an act of negligence and conclusively so until rebutted by ...
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... person , as his negligence is continuing and the act of the third person is merely concurrent.14 Care toward animals . - One may be guilty of negligence in driving so closely to the heads of horses in a street as to cause them to back ...
... person , as his negligence is continuing and the act of the third person is merely concurrent.14 Care toward animals . - One may be guilty of negligence in driving so closely to the heads of horses in a street as to cause them to back ...
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Page 843 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Page 935 - The acceptance of a bill is the signification by the drawee of his assent to the order of the drawer. The acceptance must be in writing and signed by the drawee. It must not express that the drawee will perform his promise by any other means than the payment of money.
Page 546 - Negligence,' has been defined to be 'the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something, which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 899 - Where the instrument is payable at a fixed period after date, after sight, or after the happening of a specified event, the time of payment is determined by excluding the day from which the time is to begin to run, and by including the date of payment.
Page 152 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence. But where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendants, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 819 - No person is liable on the instrument whose signature does not appear thereon, except as herein otherwise expressly provided. But one who signs in a trade or assumed name will be liable to the same extent as if he had signed in his own name.
Page 899 - When the day of maturity falls upon Sunday, or a holiday, the instrument is payable on the next succeeding business day. Instruments falling due on Saturday are to be presented for payment on the next succeeding business day, except that instruments payable on demand may, at the option of the holder, be presented for payment before 12 :00 o'clock noon on Saturday when that entire day is not a holiday.
Page 873 - The acceptor by accepting the instrument engages that he will pay it according to the tenor of his acceptance; and admits: 1. The existence of the drawer, the genuineness of his signature, and his capacity and authority to draw the instrument; and 2. The existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse.
Page 943 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 907 - Notice of dishonor may be given by an agent either in his own name or in the name of any party entitled to give notice, whether that party be his principal or not.