Albany Law Journal, Volume 12Weed, Parsons & Company, 1875 - Law |
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... jurors ought to pronounce the verdict in a civil case . The second lesson which we derive is , that perjury is very easily and unconcernedly committed in courts of justice . In this case we need not restrict the remark to the shameless ...
... jurors ought to pronounce the verdict in a civil case . The second lesson which we derive is , that perjury is very easily and unconcernedly committed in courts of justice . In this case we need not restrict the remark to the shameless ...
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... juror , witness or other person , to any lawful writ , process , order , rule , decree or command of the said courts . ' Such has always been the power of the courts , both of common law and equity . The exercise of this power has a two ...
... juror , witness or other person , to any lawful writ , process , order , rule , decree or command of the said courts . ' Such has always been the power of the courts , both of common law and equity . The exercise of this power has a two ...
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... jurors that some judges forbid counsel referring to it . " The rule in regard to the corpus delicti is laid down by the judge to be that " it must be established beyond a reasonable doubt , like any other fact on which a verdict in a ...
... jurors that some judges forbid counsel referring to it . " The rule in regard to the corpus delicti is laid down by the judge to be that " it must be established beyond a reasonable doubt , like any other fact on which a verdict in a ...
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... jurors to expedite their verdicts . One of the most ancient is given in an early volume of " Notes and Queries , " extracted from an old court register , in which it is gravely recorded as follows : " The jury could not for several ...
... jurors to expedite their verdicts . One of the most ancient is given in an early volume of " Notes and Queries , " extracted from an old court register , in which it is gravely recorded as follows : " The jury could not for several ...
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... jurors in a murder case from reading the newspapers . We are told that " if a juror can be trusted to decide a case intelligently and conscientiously he can be trusted to read the newspapers , even though they should contain comments on ...
... jurors in a murder case from reading the newspapers . We are told that " if a juror can be trusted to decide a case intelligently and conscientiously he can be trusted to read the newspapers , even though they should contain comments on ...
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Page 343 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 289 - The taking, receiving, reserving or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill or other evidence of debt carries •with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Page 305 - And shall have, exclusively, all such jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors or other public ministers, or their domestics or domestic servants, as a court of law can have or exercise consistently with the law of nations. And original, but not exclusive jurisdiction of all suits brought by ambassadors or other public ministers, or in which a consul or viceconsul shall be a party.
Page 152 - ... assign or demise to or permit any other person to occupy the premises, or any part thereof, without the consent in writing of the lessor," and a proviso for re-entry by the lessor for any breach.
Page 320 - Where the means of knowledge are at hand, and equally available to both parties, and the subject of purchase is alike open to their inspection, if the purchaser does not avail himself of these means and opportunities he will not be heard to say that he has been deceived by the vendor's misrepresentations.
Page 185 - It is a rule in law when the ancestor by any gift cr conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.
Page 259 - ... lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to...
Page 325 - I believe quite correctly, that "the rule of law is laid down with perfect correctness in the case of Butterfield v. Forrester, II East, 60, that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet unless he might, by the exercise of ordinary care, have avoided the consequences of the defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover ; if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong.
Page 218 - All contracts, whether by specialty or by simple contract, henceforth entered into by infants for the repayment of money lent or to be lent, or for goods supplied or to be supplied (other than contracts for necessaries), and all accounts stated with infants, shall be absolutely void...
Page 68 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...