The American Law Register, Volume 3; Volume 12D.B. Canfield & Company, 1864 - Electronic journals |
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... person suffering from general intellectual insanity can make a valid will , as being beyond all doubt a person of unsound mind , but general moral mania , as above defined , has never been held a sufficient ground for annulling a ...
... person suffering from general intellectual insanity can make a valid will , as being beyond all doubt a person of unsound mind , but general moral mania , as above defined , has never been held a sufficient ground for annulling a ...
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... person may be able to talk and act ra- tionally in regard to most subjects , while the same person is un- able to talk and act rationally in regard to one or two subjects , and this fact is all that the law can take cognisance of . It ...
... person may be able to talk and act ra- tionally in regard to most subjects , while the same person is un- able to talk and act rationally in regard to one or two subjects , and this fact is all that the law can take cognisance of . It ...
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... persons of unsound mind refers to a condition known to the law , and there exactly defined to consist in a " total ... person " could not see the light of the sun or know his own father . " 3. It will , moreover , be observed that , in ...
... persons of unsound mind refers to a condition known to the law , and there exactly defined to consist in a " total ... person " could not see the light of the sun or know his own father . " 3. It will , moreover , be observed that , in ...
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... person possessed any understanding he was not non compos , but they did not and could not give any criterial by which the presence or ab- sence of understanding could be established . The rule was not precise , because it did not define ...
... person possessed any understanding he was not non compos , but they did not and could not give any criterial by which the presence or ab- sence of understanding could be established . The rule was not precise , because it did not define ...
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... person and estate . " III . Decided in 1767 , before the meaning of the term " unsound mind " had been extended , and arose upon a commission of lunacy , involving the Crown right to the custody of the estate . In the same case ( charge ...
... person and estate . " III . Decided in 1767 , before the meaning of the term " unsound mind " had been extended , and arose upon a commission of lunacy , involving the Crown right to the custody of the estate . In the same case ( charge ...
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Page 459 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Page 325 - In case of a disagreement between the two houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, the Governor shall have power to adjourn...
Page 331 - Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Page 535 - ... of its capital, after deducting the assessed value of its real estate, and all shares of stock in other corporations actually owned by such company which are taxable upon their capital...
Page 139 - AVhere a remainder shall be limited to the heirs, or iifefwhe'nto heirs of the body of a person to whom a life estate, in the same premises...
Page 334 - Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of construction, that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts.
Page 590 - It shall be lawful, for the time to come, for any one to go out of our kingdom, and return safely and securely, by land or by water, saving his allegiance to us...
Page 472 - The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crime shall have been committed...
Page 140 - By section 35 of the same article, it is, also, provided that "expectant estates are descendible, devisable and alienable in the same manner as estates in possession.
Page 32 - P. 249] , and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation, on which it is founded, never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.