The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 122West Publishing Company, 1924 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... statute , the appellant has gone to a tribunal that never enforces a penalty . It often relieves against a penalty ( unless it be imposed by a statute , when it will not interfere ) , but it never aids in enforcing a penalty . 2 Story's ...
... statute , the appellant has gone to a tribunal that never enforces a penalty . It often relieves against a penalty ( unless it be imposed by a statute , when it will not interfere ) , but it never aids in enforcing a penalty . 2 Story's ...
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... statute provides that mandamus be - shall not be denied because there may be an- other specific legal remedy . Carus v . Mat- thiessen , 196 Ill . App . 445 . While the precise question has never fore arisen in Delaware as to the ...
... statute provides that mandamus be - shall not be denied because there may be an- other specific legal remedy . Carus v . Mat- thiessen , 196 Ill . App . 445 . While the precise question has never fore arisen in Delaware as to the ...
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... statute like that § 489 . of Indiana required the stock to be trans- ferred on the books of the company in order to give to the assignee a title superior to that of one claiming title under an attachment sale where the assignment ...
... statute like that § 489 . of Indiana required the stock to be trans- ferred on the books of the company in order to give to the assignee a title superior to that of one claiming title under an attachment sale where the assignment ...
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... statutes falling in the second County ; Frank D. Haines , Judge . Stewart N. Dunning , of Hartford , for ap- 18 Cal . 370 , in which under a statute falling pellant Capitol City Lumber Co. in the second class it has been held that the ...
... statutes falling in the second County ; Frank D. Haines , Judge . Stewart N. Dunning , of Hartford , for ap- 18 Cal . 370 , in which under a statute falling pellant Capitol City Lumber Co. in the second class it has been held that the ...
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... statutes concerning mechanics ' liens , and decisions applicable to the question under considera- tion , we find that the first statute upon the subject was enacted in 1836 , P. A. 1836-37 , c . 76 , and section 1 subjects a building ...
... statutes concerning mechanics ' liens , and decisions applicable to the question under considera- tion , we find that the first statute upon the subject was enacted in 1836 , P. A. 1836-37 , c . 76 , and section 1 subjects a building ...
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Page 295 - ... 2. The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the buyer's breach of contract. 3. Where there is an available market...
Page 449 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person...
Page 52 - ... other office under this State, shall, before he enter on the discharge of the duties of his place or office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, , do swear, that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State, so long as I shall continue a citizen thereof. So help me God.
Page 306 - ... every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided by law. In relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate...
Page 370 - I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, to my beloved wife, Susie E. Smith, to have and to hold to her, my said wife, and to her heirs and assigns forever.
Page 367 - Courts, in the construction of contracts, look to the language employed, the subjectmatter, and the surrounding circumstances. They are never shut out from the same light which the parties enjoyed when the contract was executed, and, in that view, they are entitled to place themselves in the same situation as the parties who made the contract, so as to view the circumstances as they viewed them, and so to judge of the meaning of the words and of the correct application of the language to the things...
Page 279 - Representatives, and if the same shall be agreed tu by a majority of the members elected to each House, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the same to be published three months before the next general election, in at least two newspapers in every county in which such newspapers shall be published...
Page 65 - When any principal employer procures any work to be done, wholly or in part for him, by a contractor, or through him by a sub-contractor, and the work so procured to be done is a part or process in the trade or business of such principal employer...
Page 61 - In the case of a contract to sell or a sale by sample: (a) There is an implied warranty that the bulk shall correspond with the sample in quality. (b) There is an implied warranty that the buyer shall have a reasonable opportunity of comparing the bulk with the sample...
Page 178 - February 8, 1915, signed by the mother, answered the statutory requirement that "there can be no trust concerning lands, except trusts arising or resulting by implication of law, unless created or declared by some writing signed by the party or his attorney.