The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 44Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1895 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... record , the acts done by the accused , if they were ac- companied with an intention to ravish , were quite sufficient to constitute an assault . 2. The doctrine of the court's charge to the jury that , upon the question of intention ...
... record , the acts done by the accused , if they were ac- companied with an intention to ravish , were quite sufficient to constitute an assault . 2. The doctrine of the court's charge to the jury that , upon the question of intention ...
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... record as the " Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Co. , " and is also 401 thus designated in the case of State v . Savannah etc. Canal Co. , 26 Ga . 665. We therefore presume , without investigation , that the corporate name of this company ...
... record as the " Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Co. , " and is also 401 thus designated in the case of State v . Savannah etc. Canal Co. , 26 Ga . 665. We therefore presume , without investigation , that the corporate name of this company ...
Page 63
... record in this case is , in every way , deplorable . It presents a singu- larly striking instance of human death and misery resulting from human misconduct . The trial of such a case imposes upon the parties concerned on both sides ...
... record in this case is , in every way , deplorable . It presents a singu- larly striking instance of human death and misery resulting from human misconduct . The trial of such a case imposes upon the parties concerned on both sides ...
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... record , 19 taken as a whole , is that the accused was indiscreet and unwise , both in conduct and expression , whilst his trial was in progress , and that , owing to the youth and inexperience of the zealous and faithful young ...
... record , 19 taken as a whole , is that the accused was indiscreet and unwise , both in conduct and expression , whilst his trial was in progress , and that , owing to the youth and inexperience of the zealous and faithful young ...
Page 115
... record . On the former trial it was shown that a man had been placed at the hatchway to give notice to the hands below , and that this man was at his post and in the discharge of his duty a few minutes before the injury oc- curred ; and ...
... record . On the former trial it was shown that a man had been placed at the hatchway to give notice to the hands below , and that this man was at his post and in the discharge of his duty a few minutes before the injury oc- curred ; and ...
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Page 549 - Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels which shall hereafter be made which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Page 388 - For the legislature absolutely or conditionally to forbid public speaking in a highway or public park is no more an infringement of the rights of a member of the public than for the owner of a private house to forbid it in his house.
Page 633 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience...
Page 764 - The police of a state, in a comprehensive sense, embraces its whole system of internal regulation by which the state seeks not only to preserve the public order, and to prevent offenses against the state, but also to establish, for the intercourse of citizens with citizens, those rules of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the uninterrupted enjoyment of his own so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment of rights...
Page 764 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Page 761 - Having thus, in the exercise of undisputed constitutional powers, undertaken to provide a currency for the whole country, it cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation. To this end, Congress has denied the quality of legal tender to foreign coins, and has provided by law against the imposition of counterfeit and base coin on the community. To the same end, Congress may restrain by suitable enactments, the circulation...
Page 868 - Exchequer; directed to the judge and parties, of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution thereof, upon a suggestion , that either the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.
Page 794 - The Governor shall have power, and it shall be his duty, except at such time as the Legislature may be in session, to examine into the condition and administration of any public office, and the acts of any public officer, elective or appointed, to remove from office for gross neglect of duty, or for corrupt conduct in office, or any other misfeasance...
Page 757 - Seventh. To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of...
Page 896 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.