The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection Union, Volume 2Roberts & Purvis, 1876 - Law |
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... interest of Whee- lock , entitled , " Sketches of the History of Dartmouth Col- lege and Moor's Charity School , with a Particular Account o Some Late Remarkable Proceedings of the Board of Trustees , from the Year 1779 to the Year 1815 ...
... interest of Whee- lock , entitled , " Sketches of the History of Dartmouth Col- lege and Moor's Charity School , with a Particular Account o Some Late Remarkable Proceedings of the Board of Trustees , from the Year 1779 to the Year 1815 ...
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... interest in its prosperity , it has a strong claim to our attention . The charter of that college was granted De- cember 13th , 1769 , by John Wentworth , who was then gov- ernor of New Hampshire , under the authority of the British ...
... interest in its prosperity , it has a strong claim to our attention . The charter of that college was granted De- cember 13th , 1769 , by John Wentworth , who was then gov- ernor of New Hampshire , under the authority of the British ...
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... interest than the members of the legislature them-- selves ; " and in another to the same body declared that they were " mere stake - holders for the public . " Probably for this reason , though the leading trustees had ample wealth ...
... interest than the members of the legislature them-- selves ; " and in another to the same body declared that they were " mere stake - holders for the public . " Probably for this reason , though the leading trustees had ample wealth ...
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... interest , but in which the community had a deep one . It was vested with power to hold property , in trust , for the public , but it could hold none for the use of the corpo- rators . It was clothed with various powers , capacities and ...
... interest , but in which the community had a deep one . It was vested with power to hold property , in trust , for the public , but it could hold none for the use of the corpo- rators . It was clothed with various powers , capacities and ...
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... interest , may be altered in such a manner as the public interest re- quires , is a principle as obvious to common sense as any that can be imagined . " Bartlett states the position of Mason and Smith to be : I. " That the legislative ...
... interest , may be altered in such a manner as the public interest re- quires , is a principle as obvious to common sense as any that can be imagined . " Bartlett states the position of Mason and Smith to be : I. " That the legislative ...
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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...