The Encyclopedic Digest of Alabama Reports: Being a Complete Encyclopedia and Digest of All the Alabama Case Law Up to and Including Volume 175, Alabama Reports, Volume 6, Alabama Appellate Court Reports, and Volume 62, Southern Reporter, Volume 3Thomas Johnson Michie Michie Company, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... equity to enjoin interments in private burying grounds , see the title EQUITY . As to a private burying ground constituting , per se , a nui- sance to a person living in its immediate vicinity , see the title NUISANCE . As to a bill by ...
... equity to enjoin interments in private burying grounds , see the title EQUITY . As to a private burying ground constituting , per se , a nui- sance to a person living in its immediate vicinity , see the title NUISANCE . As to a bill by ...
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... equity will not allow bills of review to be filed after the expiration of the period to which writs of error are limited , and we have held the statute as extending to writs of error coram vobis . Richardson v . Williams , 5 Port . 515 ...
... equity will not allow bills of review to be filed after the expiration of the period to which writs of error are limited , and we have held the statute as extending to writs of error coram vobis . Richardson v . Williams , 5 Port . 515 ...
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... equity , the party assigning such right must have some substantial posses- sion , and some capability of personal en- joyment , and not a mere naked right to overset a legal instrument , or to maintain a suit . 2 Story's Equity , § 1040 ...
... equity , the party assigning such right must have some substantial posses- sion , and some capability of personal en- joyment , and not a mere naked right to overset a legal instrument , or to maintain a suit . 2 Story's Equity , § 1040 ...
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... equity . " Wil- liams 7. Pearson , 38 Ala . 299 , 307 . It is not necessary to the validity of a charitable devise that the particular indi- viduals who are to be benefited are not specified by name . Crim v . Williamson ( Ala . ) , 60 ...
... equity . " Wil- liams 7. Pearson , 38 Ala . 299 , 307 . It is not necessary to the validity of a charitable devise that the particular indi- viduals who are to be benefited are not specified by name . Crim v . Williamson ( Ala . ) , 60 ...
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... equity over the charitable funds of a voluntary association is maintained , independent of the statute of ses , or of any prerogative power , on the ground of the trust nature of the fund , the charitable uses for which it is designed ...
... equity over the charitable funds of a voluntary association is maintained , independent of the statute of ses , or of any prerogative power , on the ground of the trust nature of the fund , the charitable uses for which it is designed ...
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Page 213 - The true distinction, therefore, is, between the delegation of power to make the law, which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be, and conferring an authority or discretion as to its execution, to be exercised under and in pursuance of the law. The first cannot be done; to the latter no valid objection can be made.
Page 250 - Class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited, but legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose, is limited in its application, if within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within /the amendment.
Page 245 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense in order to convict the offender.
Page 157 - Issuing a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce. The policies are simple contracts of indemnity against loss by fire, entered into l>ctween the corporations and the assured, for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts are not articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the word. They are not subjects of trade and barter offered in the market as something having an existence and value independent of the parties to them.
Page 474 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or money or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 246 - Those who shall have been convicted of treason, embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, crime punishable by law with imprisonment in the penitentiary, or bribery. 4th. Those who are idiots or insane.
Page 203 - Assembly and its committees, shall be performed under contract to be given to the lowest responsible bidder below such maximum price and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law...
Page 617 - No foreign corporation shall do any business in this State without having one or more known places of business, and an authorized agent or agents in the same upon whom process may be served.
Page 252 - The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint-stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporations shall have the right to sue, and shall be subject to be sued, in all courts in like cases as natural persons.
Page 157 - ... shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.