Atlantic Reporter, Volume 96

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West Publishing Company, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 105 - ... a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime...
Page 287 - This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
Page 105 - ... to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
Page 221 - ... telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless) engaged in sending messages from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or to any foreign country, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act...
Page 51 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 207 - You are further instructed that you are the sole judges of the credibility of the witnesses and of the weight to be given to their testimony.
Page 368 - It is sufficient to say that an injury is received ' in the course of ' the employment when it comes while the workman is doing the duty which he is employed to perform.
Page 79 - Defendant afterwards, under leave, reserved at the trial, moved for and obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
Page 146 - Should there prove to be any such claim after all payments are made, the Contractor shall refund to the Owner all moneys that the latter may be compelled to pay in discharging any lien on said premises made obligatory in consequence of the Contractor's default.
Page 289 - An employer shall secure compensation to his employees in one of the following ways: 1. By insuring and keeping insured the payment of such compensation in the state fund, or 2. By insuring and keeping insured the payment of such compensation with any stock corporation or mutual association authorized to transact the business of workmen's compensation insurance in this state.

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