The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection Union, Volume 2Roberts & Purvis, 1876 - Law |
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... favor . This substratum of laws which is presumed to exist , and practically does exist , wherever society exists — that which the legislator takes as a starting point — was called by the Roman jurists jus omnium gentium , the law of ...
... favor . This substratum of laws which is presumed to exist , and practically does exist , wherever society exists — that which the legislator takes as a starting point — was called by the Roman jurists jus omnium gentium , the law of ...
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... favor , as by gift , conveyance or contract . These three bonds or ligaments , connecting the person with the subject of a right , constitute the title to that right . When the first and second exist in the same person , without the ...
... favor , as by gift , conveyance or contract . These three bonds or ligaments , connecting the person with the subject of a right , constitute the title to that right . When the first and second exist in the same person , without the ...
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... favor of another determinate person , or a num- ber of such . If the person to whom the transfer is made neglects or refuses to accept the property , it does not fall to the first occupant , as it would do if the abandonment were ...
... favor of another determinate person , or a num- ber of such . If the person to whom the transfer is made neglects or refuses to accept the property , it does not fall to the first occupant , as it would do if the abandonment were ...
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... favor of the devisee , conditioned upon the death of the testator , and the acceptance of the devisee . We have seen that the right of a father to the possession and control of his infant child is placed by Rosmini on very slippery ...
... favor of the devisee , conditioned upon the death of the testator , and the acceptance of the devisee . We have seen that the right of a father to the possession and control of his infant child is placed by Rosmini on very slippery ...
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... favor of the plan stated . It is difficult to understand how trustees charged , as they claimed , in the most solemn manner , with the execution of great trusts , by the very instrument to which they owed their own existence and their ...
... favor of the plan stated . It is difficult to understand how trustees charged , as they claimed , in the most solemn manner , with the execution of great trusts , by the very instrument to which they owed their own existence and their ...
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Page 236 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not 30 the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 235 - Surely every medicine is an innovation ; and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils : for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 643 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 288 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 236 - It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those things which have long gone together are as it were confederate within themselves : whereas new things piece not so well ; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconfbrmity.
Page 718 - USCA § 379), it is provided that "the writ of injunction shall not be granted by any court of the United States to stay proceedings in any court of a state, except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.
Page 405 - Of the parties to the action, those who are united in interest must be joined as plaintiffs or defendants; but if the consent of any one,' who should have been joined as plaintiff, cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint...
Page 222 - ... inherit us : our looks are strange : And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. Or else the island princes over-bold Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things.
Page 236 - It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 320 - June, no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain or in part...