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 73Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1900 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... cause of action charged for moneys expended by plain- tiff for the association at its request and under its promise of repayment . The third cause of action was for the value of the AM . ST . REP . , VOL LXXIII . - 2 ( 17 ) services of ...
... cause of action charged for moneys expended by plain- tiff for the association at its request and under its promise of repayment . The third cause of action was for the value of the AM . ST . REP . , VOL LXXIII . - 2 ( 17 ) services of ...
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... cause of ac- tion arises out of a contract between him and the defendant in fraud or to the prejudice of third persons . " Of the second , Lord Mansfield and the court of king's bench , in Jones v . Ran- dall , Cowp . 39 , declared ...
... cause of ac- tion arises out of a contract between him and the defendant in fraud or to the prejudice of third persons . " Of the second , Lord Mansfield and the court of king's bench , in Jones v . Ran- dall , Cowp . 39 , declared ...
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... cause re- manded , with directions to the court below to enter judgment upon the findings in favor of plaintiff and in accordance with the views herein expressed . Gray , C. , and Britt , C. , concurred . For the reasons given in the ...
... cause re- manded , with directions to the court below to enter judgment upon the findings in favor of plaintiff and in accordance with the views herein expressed . Gray , C. , and Britt , C. , concurred . For the reasons given in the ...
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... caused by the defendant's negligence , brought by a sister and brother of the deceased , all the parties being adults , the law simply measures the injury complained of by the loss it has caused , or will cause , in dollars and cents ...
... caused by the defendant's negligence , brought by a sister and brother of the deceased , all the parties being adults , the law simply measures the injury complained of by the loss it has caused , or will cause , in dollars and cents ...
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... caused or will cause in dollars and cents . In passing upon this question you are not allowed to speculate or indulge in presumptions not warranted by the evidence ; but you must determine this question solely by the evidence intro ...
... caused or will cause in dollars and cents . In passing upon this question you are not allowed to speculate or indulge in presumptions not warranted by the evidence ; but you must determine this question solely by the evidence intro ...
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Page 215 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 746 - No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition. But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive, or intent is a necessary element to constitute any particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive, or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 753 - Insurance is a contract whereby one undertakes to indemnify another against loss, damage, or liability, arising from an unknown or contingent event. ARTICLE II. What may be Insured. SEC. 2531. Any contingent or unknown event...
Page 506 - ... to answer concerning the same; and such proceedings may thereupon be had for the application of the property of the judgment debtor...
Page 752 - A crime or public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it, and to which is annexed, upon conviction, either of the following punishments: 1. Death; 2. Imprisonment; 3. Fine: 4. Removal from office; or, 5. Disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit in this state.
Page 760 - The father of an illegitimate child, by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife, if he is married, into his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts it as such ; and such child is thereupon deemed for all purposes legitimate from the time of its birth. The foregoing provisions of this chapter do not apply to such an adoption.
Page 631 - Where the means of knowledge are at hand and equally available to both parties, and the subject of purchase is alike open to their inspection, if the purchaser does not avail himself of these means and opportunities, he will not be heard to say that he has been deceived by the vendor's misrepresentations.
Page 204 - We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well-ordered civil society, that every holder of property, however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated, that it shall not be injurious to the equal enjoyment of others having an equal right to the enjoyment of their property, nor injurious to the rights of the community.
Page 702 - No suit or action on this policy for the recovery of any claim shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements, nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 201 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.