The Pacific Reporter, Volume 96

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West Publishing Company, 1908 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 212 - An intervention takes place when a third person is permitted to become a party to an action or proceeding between other persons, either by joining the plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint, or by uniting with the defendant in resisting the...
Page 212 - The interest mentioned in the statute, which entitles a person to intervene in a suit between other parties, must be in the matter in litigation and of such a direct and immediate character that the intervener will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment.
Page 315 - ... the party of the first part under this agreement without any notice or demand by the party of the second part.
Page 207 - To employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to him, such means only as are consistent with truth, and...
Page 31 - Every conveyance of real property other than a lease for a term not exceeding one year, is void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee of the same property, or any part thereof, in good faith and for a valuable consideration, whose conveyance is first duly recorded.
Page 426 - The cause was tried by the court without a jury, and resulted in a judgment for the plaintiffs for the unpaid balance due them on the note of Hugh W.
Page 209 - A writ of review may be granted by any court, except a police or justice's court, when an inferior tribunal, board, or officer, exercising judicial functions, has exceeded the jurisdiction of such tribunal, board, or officer, and there is no appeal, nor, in the judgment of the court, any plain, speedy, and adequate remedy.
Page 96 - ... with interest thereon at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, from rendition of bill.
Page 245 - ... shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent per annum...
Page 299 - Whenever, by the terms of an obligation, a party thereto incurs a forfeiture, or a loss in the nature of a forfeiture, by reason of his failure to comply with its provisions, he may be relieved therefrom, upon making full compensation to the other party, except in case of a grossly negligent, willful, or fraudulent breach of duty.

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