Southern Reporter, Volume 88West Publishing Company, 1921 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana. |
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Page 415 - ... to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways; to live and work where he will; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling; to pursue any livelihood or avocation; and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to his carrying out to a successful conclusion the purposes above mentioned.
Page 34 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 71 - ... transitu shall defeat the rights of any purchaser for value in good faith to whom such...
Page 71 - A person to whom a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby — (a) Such title to the goods as the person negotiating the document to him had or had ability to convey to a purchaser in good faith for value...
Page 253 - That for the purpose of the tax the value of the net estate shall be determined — (a) In the case of a resident, by deducting from the value of the gross estate...
Page 112 - Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to. hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation.
Page 71 - That where an order bill has been issued for goods no seller's lien or right of stoppage in transitu...
Page 254 - ... shall be entitled to reimbursement out of any part of the estate 'still undistributed or by a just and equitable contribution by the persons whose interest in the estate of the decedent would have been reduced if the tax had been paid before the distribution of the estate...
Page 228 - An act prescribing the liability of an employer to make compensation for injuries received by an em-ployee in performing services arising out of and incidental to his employment in the course of his employer's trade, busi-ness or occupation...
Page 482 - Assured against loss from the liability imposed by law upon the Assured for damages on account of bodily injuries...