Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Volume 10, Part 1887E.C. Markley & Son, 1887 - Law |
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... Committee , left but one elected and one ex officio member of the Executive Committee to attend this present annual meeting . Under our Constitu- tion three courses were open to us . We constitute a legal quorum for the transaction of ...
... Committee , left but one elected and one ex officio member of the Executive Committee to attend this present annual meeting . Under our Constitu- tion three courses were open to us . We constitute a legal quorum for the transaction of ...
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... Committee . " As a member of the Executive Committee , I may say that we have felt that heretofore the Executive Committee has been too permanent a body , and that it ought to have intro- duced into it some members of the Association ...
... Committee . " As a member of the Executive Committee , I may say that we have felt that heretofore the Executive Committee has been too permanent a body , and that it ought to have intro- duced into it some members of the Association ...
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... Committee . In this connection another matter has been called to our attention , in regard to which we offer a slight amendment , It has seemed to us that it would be a becoming courtesy to make the ex - Presidents of this body honorary ...
... Committee . In this connection another matter has been called to our attention , in regard to which we offer a slight amendment , It has seemed to us that it would be a becoming courtesy to make the ex - Presidents of this body honorary ...
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... Committee . " The amendment was then adopted . The President : The next amendment to the Constitution is Article IV . Append the following words : " All ex - Presidents shall be enrolled as honorary mem- bers . " Skipwith Wilmer , of ...
... Committee . " The amendment was then adopted . The President : The next amendment to the Constitution is Article IV . Append the following words : " All ex - Presidents shall be enrolled as honorary mem- bers . " Skipwith Wilmer , of ...
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... committees at the last meeting , the list of business of which will be found on page 551. We may expect to hear from the Committee of Juris- prudence and Law Reform about the approbation of the bill introduced in the United States ...
... committees at the last meeting , the list of business of which will be found on page 551. We may expect to hear from the Committee of Juris- prudence and Law Reform about the approbation of the bill introduced in the United States ...
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Page 157 - New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Total 732 686 i.
Page 392 - A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this, act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determined future time, a sum certain- in money to order, or to bearer.
Page 383 - A bill must be protested at the place where it is dishonored, except that when a bill drawn payable at the place of business, or residence of some person other than the drawee, has been dishonored by non-acceptance, it must be protested for non-payment at the place where it is expressed to be payable, and no further presentment for payment to, or demand on, the drawee is necessary.
Page 158 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant...
Page 199 - To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration of the laws, Each of them is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 337 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 161 - All claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract express or implied with the government of the United States...
Page 381 - Where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in different places, the notice must be given within the following times : 1. If...
Page 372 - An accommodation party is one who has signed the instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor or indorser, without receiving value therefor, and for the purpose of lending his name to some other person. Such a person is liable on the instrument to a holder for value, notwithstanding such holder at the time of taking the instrument knew him to be only an accommodation party.
Page 297 - Undoubtedly in mere private contracts, relating to matters in which the public has no interest, what is reasonable must be ascertained judicially. But this is because the legislature has no control over such a contract. So, too, in matters which do affect the public interest, and as to which legislative control may be exercised, if there are no statutory regulations upon the subject, the courts must determine what is reasonable.