Albany Law Journal, Volume 22Weed, Parsons & Company, 1880 - Law |
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... issue ; for where the act is in its own nature irrelevant , and when the declaration is per se incom- petent , the union of the two will not render the de- claration admissible . The material fact here was that the prisoner and the ...
... issue ; for where the act is in its own nature irrelevant , and when the declaration is per se incom- petent , the union of the two will not render the de- claration admissible . The material fact here was that the prisoner and the ...
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... issue . The issue was whether the prisoner committed the crime . If he did , the intent of the deceased was immaterial ; if he did not , it was equally immaterial . In any light the evidence could only tend to convict the prisoner by ...
... issue . The issue was whether the prisoner committed the crime . If he did , the intent of the deceased was immaterial ; if he did not , it was equally immaterial . In any light the evidence could only tend to convict the prisoner by ...
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... issue whether the two Blackburns were jointly liable upon all or any of the bills . In the course of his judgment , however , he said : " If the money is advanced to A and B , and the lender takes a bill from one of them only , he ...
... issue whether the two Blackburns were jointly liable upon all or any of the bills . In the course of his judgment , however , he said : " If the money is advanced to A and B , and the lender takes a bill from one of them only , he ...
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... issue of fact in the case , which is the object of the trial . A mistrial , therefore , was not in the contemplation of the law- makers . Yulee v . Vase , 99 U. S. 539 ; Insurance Co. v . Dunn , 19 Wall . 214. ( 2 ) Plaintiff , in his ...
... issue of fact in the case , which is the object of the trial . A mistrial , therefore , was not in the contemplation of the law- makers . Yulee v . Vase , 99 U. S. 539 ; Insurance Co. v . Dunn , 19 Wall . 214. ( 2 ) Plaintiff , in his ...
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... issue to the transferee of a certificate does not give the transferee as against the company a right by estoppel to the stock . B. & Co. purchased upon the stock exchange 5,000l . stock in the defendant company . A transfer of the stock ...
... issue to the transferee of a certificate does not give the transferee as against the company a right by estoppel to the stock . B. & Co. purchased upon the stock exchange 5,000l . stock in the defendant company . A transfer of the stock ...
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Page 44 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.
Page 149 - Legislature so next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people...
Page 326 - ... that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such state...
Page 46 - Provided, that the legislature may at any time extend by law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated; but no such law shall be in force until the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the people at a general election, and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election...
Page 209 - Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It Is consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature whenever it operates of itself, without the aid of any legislative provision...
Page 192 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 27 - The acts of the Legislature of the United States made in pursuance of this Constitution, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the several States, and of their citizens and inhabitants ; and the Judges in the several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the Constitutions or laws of the several States to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 277 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter addressed to the person on whom it is to be served at his last known place of residence...
Page 148 - That the inhabitants of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, be, and they are hereby authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper, and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union, upon the same footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.
Page 192 - It never has been supposed by us, that the section did apply, or was designed to apply, to questions of a more general nature, not at all dependent upon local statutes or local usages of a fixed and permanent operation...