The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 8Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1889 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 18
... present action is brought to recover from the defendant the damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the defendant's withholding from the plaintiff the said office during the period from October 8 , 1878 , to August 2 , 1879 ...
... present action is brought to recover from the defendant the damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the defendant's withholding from the plaintiff the said office during the period from October 8 , 1878 , to August 2 , 1879 ...
Page 32
... present chancery suit , setting out all the facts that are above stated , except that nothing is said about Hallwood's offer to pay to the plaintiff this $ 125 , except a general allegation that " Hallwood , within the ninety days ...
... present chancery suit , setting out all the facts that are above stated , except that nothing is said about Hallwood's offer to pay to the plaintiff this $ 125 , except a general allegation that " Hallwood , within the ninety days ...
Page 40
... present satisfied that this is so ; and I do not propose to examine the question , or express any opinion on the subject , as the ques- tion in this case is not , as it is in the detinue case , what is the true interpretation of this ...
... present satisfied that this is so ; and I do not propose to examine the question , or express any opinion on the subject , as the ques- tion in this case is not , as it is in the detinue case , what is the true interpretation of this ...
Page 77
... present homestead , ' cannot be foreclosed if the truth be that the ' mortgage was not given for taxes , or for money borrowed and expended in the improvements on the homestead , or for the purchase- money of the same , or for labor due ...
... present homestead , ' cannot be foreclosed if the truth be that the ' mortgage was not given for taxes , or for money borrowed and expended in the improvements on the homestead , or for the purchase- money of the same , or for labor due ...
Page 90
... present , acting as directors , when said resolution was passed , and they , as well as the two other di- rectors then present , voted for it . Afterwards , on September 2 , 1882 , C. E. Dwight , as president , on behalf of said company ...
... present , acting as directors , when said resolution was passed , and they , as well as the two other di- rectors then present , voted for it . Afterwards , on September 2 , 1882 , C. E. Dwight , as president , on behalf of said company ...
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Page 386 - ... aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money or other personal property ever be made by the State or any such public corporation to any church or for any sectarian purpose.
Page 640 - Stock (Sec. 5201). —No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...
Page 672 - ... the southeast quarter of section 29; the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32; the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter...
Page 715 - First — After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath to my two daughters, Mary L.
Page 417 - ... said party of the first part, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns...
Page 257 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 386 - Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever...
Page 279 - Such notes, made payable to the order of the maker thereof, or to the order of a fictitious person, shall, if negotiated by the maker, have the same effect and be of the same validity as against the maker and all persons having knowledge of the facts as if payable to bearer.
Page 81 - The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.
Page 554 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.