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Page 161 - No Senator or Member of Assembly, shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 164 - No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 279 - Provided, always, And these presents are upon this express condition, that if the said party of the first part, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns...
Page 241 - ... a contingent remainder in fee may be created on a prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the persons to whom the first remainder is limited, die under the age of twenty-one years, or on any other contingency by which the estate of such persons may be determined before they attain full age. For the purposes of this section, a minority is deemed a part of a life, and not an absolute term equal to the possible duration of such minority.
Page 157 - Senate, appoint all officers, whose offices are established by this Constitution, or shall be established by law, and whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for...
Page 44 - The question of his intoxication was a matter to be taken into consideration by the jury in determining whether or not the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care...
Page 122 - ... or referred to in such account or claim ; and every such account shall exhibit in detail all the items making up the amount claimed, and the true date of each.
Page 147 - No member of Congress nor any person holding office under the United States or this State shall execute the office of Governor.* SEC.
Page 48 - The court further held that under the issues, the burden was upon the plaintiff to prove that when the fire occurred the building was occupied. To that ruling the plaintiff excepted. Upon the conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence, counsel for the defendant moved the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict in its favor, because the evidence failed to show occupancy of the property when the loss occurred. The court sustained the motion and instructed the jury accordingly. The evidence and stipulation...
Page 415 - The portions of the amended sections which are merely copied without change are not to be considered as repealed and again enacted, but to have been the law all along ; and the new parts or the changed portions are not to be taken to have been the law at any time prior to the passage of the amended act.

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