Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada, Volume 11A.L. Bancroft, 1877 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... term . RULE II . In all cases where an appeal has been perfected , and the statement settled ( if there be one ) twenty days before the commencement of a term , the transcript of the record shall be filed on or before the first day of such ...
... term . RULE II . In all cases where an appeal has been perfected , and the statement settled ( if there be one ) twenty days before the commencement of a term , the transcript of the record shall be filed on or before the first day of such ...
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... term after the transcript is filed , and must be noted in writing , and filed at least one day before the argument ... term shall consist only of those causes in which the transcript shall have been filed on or before the first day of ...
... term after the transcript is filed , and must be noted in writing , and filed at least one day before the argument ... term shall consist only of those causes in which the transcript shall have been filed on or before the first day of ...
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... term , may be placed on the calendar , on motion of the re- spondent , upon the filing of the transcript . RULE XI . Causes shall be placed on the calendar in the order in which the transcripts are filed with the clerk . RULE XII . At ...
... term , may be placed on the calendar , on motion of the re- spondent , upon the filing of the transcript . RULE XI . Causes shall be placed on the calendar in the order in which the transcripts are filed with the clerk . RULE XII . At ...
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... term , upon three days ' notice being given by either appellant or respondent , when the parties live within twenty miles of Carson . When the party served resides more than twenty miles from Car- son , an additional day's notice will ...
... term , upon three days ' notice being given by either appellant or respondent , when the parties live within twenty miles of Carson . When the party served resides more than twenty miles from Car- son , an additional day's notice will ...
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... TERM , 1876 . [ No. 743. ] STATE OF NEVADA , RESPONDENT , v . CHARLES HUFF , APPELLANT . INDICTMENT - WHEN DEFECTIVE . - An indictment for murder which fails to show that the death occurred within a year and a day after the perpetra ...
... TERM , 1876 . [ No. 743. ] STATE OF NEVADA , RESPONDENT , v . CHARLES HUFF , APPELLANT . INDICTMENT - WHEN DEFECTIVE . - An indictment for murder which fails to show that the death occurred within a year and a day after the perpetra ...
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Page 243 - A judgment is the final determination of the rights of the parties in the action or proceeding, and may be entered in term or vacation.
Page 52 - The trial by jury in all cases in which it has been heretofore used shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law.
Page 286 - ... he will pay the value of the use and occupation of the property, from the time of the appeal until the delivery of possession thereof, pursuant to the judgment or order, not exceeding a sum to be fixed by the judge of the court by which the judgment was rendered or order made, and which shall be specified in the undertaking.
Page 342 - It is not mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 34 - In all other cases the defendant may be found guilty of any offense, the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment.
Page 343 - By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined; the only legal test of which they are susceptible is their sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of a common man; and so to convince him, that he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters of the highest concern...
Page 363 - Greenleaf (volume 2, § 253), that "damages are given as a compensation or satisfaction to the plaintiff for an injury actually received by him from the defendant. They should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more nor less; and this whether it be to his person or estate" — although it is stoutly maintained by so eminent an anthor as Mr.
Page 142 - In all the cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general, and of uniform operation throughout the State.
Page 232 - A statement of the facts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise language...
Page 135 - The powers of the Government of the State of California shall be divided into three separate departments — the legislative, executive, and judicial ; and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except as in this Constitution expressly directed or permitted.