Albany Law Journal, Volume 12Weed, Parsons & Company, 1875 - Law |
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... reference to the character and conduct of the parties and witnesses . The charge is properly devoid of that element which we find so frequently in judicial utterances , the moralizing and sermonizing element , which is good in its place ...
... reference to the character and conduct of the parties and witnesses . The charge is properly devoid of that element which we find so frequently in judicial utterances , the moralizing and sermonizing element , which is good in its place ...
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... reference to the bearing of the 13th and 14th amendments of the Federal constitution upon the State law for separate schools . These provisions prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude , and the enactment of any law which shall ...
... reference to the bearing of the 13th and 14th amendments of the Federal constitution upon the State law for separate schools . These provisions prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude , and the enactment of any law which shall ...
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... reference to the conditions on the back , and a statement that the ticket was issued subject to them ; the absence of any such reference was insisted on by the learned lords in the present case . In Van Toll v . Southeastern Railway ...
... reference to the conditions on the back , and a statement that the ticket was issued subject to them ; the absence of any such reference was insisted on by the learned lords in the present case . In Van Toll v . Southeastern Railway ...
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... reference to parties plaintiff in ejectment , were still in force ( 2 R. S. 304 , § 11 ) , it would not sustain a complaint in which two such opposing claims were joined , in the absence of a count alleging a joint - title in the ...
... reference to parties plaintiff in ejectment , were still in force ( 2 R. S. 304 , § 11 ) , it would not sustain a complaint in which two such opposing claims were joined , in the absence of a count alleging a joint - title in the ...
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... reference to that point , and with reference to the particular crime of which he is charged . The same correspondent finds fault with us for saying that the manifestation of public spirit in question is such as leads to the ...
... reference to that point , and with reference to the particular crime of which he is charged . The same correspondent finds fault with us for saying that the manifestation of public spirit in question is such as leads to the ...
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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...