Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida, Volume 17 |
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Page 16
... effect upon the public , though they may not be able to protect themselves in reference to their action . In The People vs. Cook , ( 14 Barb . , 259 , and 4 Selden , S. C. , 67 , ) and State of Iowa ex rel . Rice vs. County Judge of ...
... effect upon the public , though they may not be able to protect themselves in reference to their action . In The People vs. Cook , ( 14 Barb . , 259 , and 4 Selden , S. C. , 67 , ) and State of Iowa ex rel . Rice vs. County Judge of ...
Page 19
... effect . If it were not so they might defeat the object intended , and so it would be in this case . The judge with the jus- tices , as canvassers , must do what is commanded by the writ . Therefore , the writ of attachment should have ...
... effect . If it were not so they might defeat the object intended , and so it would be in this case . The judge with the jus- tices , as canvassers , must do what is commanded by the writ . Therefore , the writ of attachment should have ...
Page 34
... effect of unlawful attempts to palm off upon them forged and " doctored " papers or wholesale falsehoods . To maintain under our statute that a county canvass based upon votes not cast as a proper return to be counted , would be clearly ...
... effect of unlawful attempts to palm off upon them forged and " doctored " papers or wholesale falsehoods . To maintain under our statute that a county canvass based upon votes not cast as a proper return to be counted , would be clearly ...
Page 46
... effect that under their statutes a State Board is restricted in its enquiries to the genuineness of the return before them . The statutes they are construing are essentially different from ours . They authorize no inquiry as to the ...
... effect that under their statutes a State Board is restricted in its enquiries to the genuineness of the return before them . The statutes they are construing are essentially different from ours . They authorize no inquiry as to the ...
Page 59
... effect of the clause , " if any such returns shall be shown or shall appear to be so irregular , false or fraudulent that the board shall be unable to determine the true vote for any such officer or member , they shall so certify , and ...
... effect of the clause , " if any such returns shall be shown or shall appear to be so irregular , false or fraudulent that the board shall be unable to determine the true vote for any such officer or member , they shall so certify , and ...
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Popular passages
Page 171 - All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends, are objects of taxation ; but those over which it does not extend, are, upon the soundest principles, exempt from taxation.
Page 540 - In contracts of this description, the undertakings of the respective parties are always considered dependent, unless a contrary intention clearly appears. A different construction would, in many cases, lead to the greatest injustice, and a purchaser might have payment of the consideration money enforced upon him, and yet be disabled from procuring the property for which he paid it.
Page 90 - The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws whenever he receives an injury.
Page 240 - The fiscal year of the corporation shall begin on the first day of January and end on the thirty-first day of December in each year.
Page 264 - In all the cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general, and of uniform operation throughout the State.
Page 485 - A statute may declare that no marriages shall be valid unless they are solemnized in a prescribed manner ; but such an enactment is a very different thing from a law requiring all marriages to be entered into in the presence of a magistrate or a clergyman, or that it be preceded by a license, or publication of banns, or be attested by witnesses.
Page 75 - It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be determined.
Page 517 - No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor, was seized .or possessed of the premises in question within twenty years before the commencement of such action.
Page 815 - No person offered as a witness in any court, or before any officer acting judicially, shall be excluded by reason of his interest In the event of the action...
Page 256 - First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is denied.