Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 30, Part 1, Pages 1-800state, 1879 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... signed by the Governor in his official capacity and are payable to him in his individual capacity . It would be difficult to imagine a case where the parties would be more entitled to equitable relief than this . Their good faith is un ...
... signed by the Governor in his official capacity and are payable to him in his individual capacity . It would be difficult to imagine a case where the parties would be more entitled to equitable relief than this . Their good faith is un ...
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... signed by the parties , is not necessary to its perfection as a contract , unless it clearly appears that the parties intended that it should not be complete as a contract , until so written and signed . Whoever by word , or act ...
... signed by the parties , is not necessary to its perfection as a contract , unless it clearly appears that the parties intended that it should not be complete as a contract , until so written and signed . Whoever by word , or act ...
Page 51
... signed . The first of these stipulations was performed by plaintiffs , and they also had prepared the necessary writings for the signature of the defendants , which were presented to them . Objection was made by them because of an ...
... signed . The first of these stipulations was performed by plaintiffs , and they also had prepared the necessary writings for the signature of the defendants , which were presented to them . Objection was made by them because of an ...
Page 52
... signed , but this agreement was never consummated . The lease never was signed .. It is also urged in defence that the firm of Weil & Bro . was dissolved on 25th . October 1873 , six days before the lease was to begin , and notice of ...
... signed , but this agreement was never consummated . The lease never was signed .. It is also urged in defence that the firm of Weil & Bro . was dissolved on 25th . October 1873 , six days before the lease was to begin , and notice of ...
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... signed by the judge who rendered it , and hence , until thus signed , this court can not take cognizance of an appeal from it . A PPEAL from the Second District Court , parish of Orleans . J. Charles E. Schmidt for plaintiff and ...
... signed by the judge who rendered it , and hence , until thus signed , this court can not take cognizance of an appeal from it . A PPEAL from the Second District Court , parish of Orleans . J. Charles E. Schmidt for plaintiff and ...
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Page 38 - To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Page 20 - When several persons claim to be entitled to the same office or franchise, one action may be brought against all such persons, in order to try their respective rights to such office or franchise.
Page 472 - State, may remove such suit into the Circuit Court of the United States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said Circuit Court that from prejudice or local influence he will not be able to obtain justice in such State Court...
Page 189 - But a charge for services rendered or for conveniences provided is in no sense a tax or a duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed to guard against local hindrances...
Page 51 - But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe 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 35 - In the argument, we have been reminded by one side of the dignity of a sovereign State, of the humiliation of her submitting herself to this tribunal, of the dangers which may result from inflicting a wound on that dignity ; * by the other, of the still superior dignity of the people of the United States, who have spoken their will in terms which we cannot misunderstand. To these admonitions we can only answer, that, if the exercise of that jurisdiction which has been imposed upon us by the Constitution...
Page 543 - But where each party is equally innocent, and there is no concealment of facts which the other party has a right to know, and no surprise or imposition exists, the mistake or ignorance, whether mutual or unilateral, is treated as laying no foundation for equitable interference. It is strictly damnum absque injuria.* § 152.
Page 340 - In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased...
Page 51 - Or, as it was said in another case, the rule of law is clear that 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...
Page 690 - All judgments for money, whether rendered within or without the State, shall be prescribed by the lapse of ten years from the rendition of such judgments : Provided, however, that any party interested in any judgment may have the same revived, at any time before it is prescribed...