Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 51 |
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... statute expressly declares that such mistakes shall not be deemed sufficient cause to quash the venire . R. C. § 4175. The purpose of the statute was , to avoid all such objections , which , if they ever had any force , were more often ...
... statute expressly declares that such mistakes shall not be deemed sufficient cause to quash the venire . R. C. § 4175. The purpose of the statute was , to avoid all such objections , which , if they ever had any force , were more often ...
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... statute is " Card - playing at public places . " It is thus de- fined in the Revised Code : " Any person , who plays at any game with cards , dice , or any device or substitute for either cards or dice , at any tavern , inn , storehouse ...
... statute is " Card - playing at public places . " It is thus de- fined in the Revised Code : " Any person , who plays at any game with cards , dice , or any device or substitute for either cards or dice , at any tavern , inn , storehouse ...
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... statute , as declared by Judge ORMOND , and from which we may attain to an inflexible rule for the interpretation of the section of the Code above quoted . I think the case of Johnson v . The State ( 19 Ala . 527 ) , com- pared with ...
... statute , as declared by Judge ORMOND , and from which we may attain to an inflexible rule for the interpretation of the section of the Code above quoted . I think the case of Johnson v . The State ( 19 Ala . 527 ) , com- pared with ...
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... statutes ; legislative adoption of judicial construction . - In the subsequent enactment of a statute , substantially the same as one which has already received a judicial construction , the legislature will be presumed to have known ...
... statutes ; legislative adoption of judicial construction . - In the subsequent enactment of a statute , substantially the same as one which has already received a judicial construction , the legislature will be presumed to have known ...
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... statute , is , in the language of this court , in State v . Brooks , supra , " without legal warrant . " a grand jury is not a mere assemblage of fifteen or eighteen persons in the jury box , congregated by an order of the court , or by ...
... statute , is , in the language of this court , in State v . Brooks , supra , " without legal warrant . " a grand jury is not a mere assemblage of fifteen or eighteen persons in the jury box , congregated by an order of the court , or by ...
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Page 488 - ... from sale on execution or other final process of any court, issued for the collection of any debt contracted after the adoption of this Constitution.
Page 136 - ... a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
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Page 228 - We admit that the acts of the several States in their individual capacities, and of their different departments of government, executive, judicial, and legislative, during the war, so far as they did not impair or tend to impair the supremacy of the National authority, or the just rights of citizens under the Constitution, are, in general, to be treated as valid and binding.
Page 536 - All demands against the bankrupt for or on account of any goods or chattels wrongfully taken, converted, or withheld by him may be proved and allowed as debts to the amount of the value of the property so taken or withheld, with interest.
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Page 450 - The time within which an act, in an action or special proceeding, brought as specified in the last section, is required by law to be done, must be computed by excluding the first, and including the last day ; except where it is otherwise specially prescribed by law. If the last day is Sunday, or a public holiday, it must be excluded.