Albany Law Journal, Volume 33Weed, Parsons & Company, 1886 - Law |
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... liable 257 Loss of property caused by back - water from dam be- low .. 195 - policy ; compromising criminal offense 178 Measure ; breach of contract ; penalty . 235 Rescission for fraud ; mistake . 17 - on failure of title to chattels ...
... liable 257 Loss of property caused by back - water from dam be- low .. 195 - policy ; compromising criminal offense 178 Measure ; breach of contract ; penalty . 235 Rescission for fraud ; mistake . 17 - on failure of title to chattels ...
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... liable ; lessor has no preference 310 Non - expert ; value of ring ; comparison . 243 Res gestae 412 Parol ; collateral agreement .. 476 Intoxication ; burden of proof ; equity pleading ; an- swer under oath ; deed ; consideration ...
... liable ; lessor has no preference 310 Non - expert ; value of ring ; comparison . 243 Res gestae 412 Parol ; collateral agreement .. 476 Intoxication ; burden of proof ; equity pleading ; an- swer under oath ; deed ; consideration ...
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... liable for support of child .... 43 Division of limits ; new corporation . when liable for debts 234 Breach of promise ; physical incapacity as a defense .. 363 Contract between husband and wife 57 Imprisonment under void ordinance ...
... liable for support of child .... 43 Division of limits ; new corporation . when liable for debts 234 Breach of promise ; physical incapacity as a defense .. 363 Contract between husband and wife 57 Imprisonment under void ordinance ...
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... liable for an injury to a traveller by the fall of a rotten limb . The court said : " At common law the duty of keeping high- ways safe for travel pertained ordinarily to the parish at large . Rex v . Sheffield , 2 T. R. 106. But since ...
... liable for an injury to a traveller by the fall of a rotten limb . The court said : " At common law the duty of keeping high- ways safe for travel pertained ordinarily to the parish at large . Rex v . Sheffield , 2 T. R. 106. But since ...
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... liable as such , Rev. Stat . , part II , chap . 4 , tit . 1 , § 8 . The cause of action against him was not based upon the statute , but upon his common - law liability as a general partner , and hence it was proper in setting forth in ...
... liable as such , Rev. Stat . , part II , chap . 4 , tit . 1 , § 8 . The cause of action against him was not based upon the statute , but upon his common - law liability as a general partner , and hence it was proper in setting forth in ...
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Page 7 - Sixty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third unpaid) pay to the order of ourselves, in London, eight hundred and fifty pounds sterling, value received, and charge to account of HUMPHREY BELL & Co. To Mr. WD Turner, Jr., Liverpool.
Page 333 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 151 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 333 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 157 - We hold the true rule to. he that whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he belongs, either with reference to the immediate necessities or to the ultimate purpose of the journey, must be considered as personal baggage.
Page 225 - It would be a very curious and unsatisfactory result If, In construing a provision of constitutional law always understood to have been adopted for protection and security to the rights of the individual as against the government, and which has received the commendation of jurists, statesmen, and commentators, as placing the just principles of the common law on that subject beyond the power of ordinary legislation to change or control them...
Page 312 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 78 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Page 16 - All manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value...
Page 62 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.