The Eastern Reporter: Containing All the Decisions of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as Soon as They are Filed, with Statement of the Case, Volume 11William Gould, 1887 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... proceedings , he might be induced to do so for the purpose of delay , the fund in the mean time remaining in his hands . Inasmuch , there- fore , as the appellee appears to have volunteered his services in this contention , we think he ...
... proceedings , he might be induced to do so for the purpose of delay , the fund in the mean time remaining in his hands . Inasmuch , there- fore , as the appellee appears to have volunteered his services in this contention , we think he ...
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... proceedings for an error that has done no injury . " 3 Brewst . 190 . GREEN , J. In the case In re Harrison Township , 5 Barr , 447 , which was a proceeding for the erection of a new township under the act of 15th April , 1834 , we said ...
... proceedings for an error that has done no injury . " 3 Brewst . 190 . GREEN , J. In the case In re Harrison Township , 5 Barr , 447 , which was a proceeding for the erection of a new township under the act of 15th April , 1834 , we said ...
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... proceedings be defective in either particular , it is an error for which the whole must be set aside . " This was followed in a precisely similar case under the same act . In re Division of Plum Township , 2 Norr . 73 , in which it was ...
... proceedings be defective in either particular , it is an error for which the whole must be set aside . " This was followed in a precisely similar case under the same act . In re Division of Plum Township , 2 Norr . 73 , in which it was ...
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... proceedings . " See , also , Clearfield Independent School District , 29 P. F. S. 419. In the present case it does not appear that any defined notice was ordered to be given , and the report merely certifies that due public notice was ...
... proceedings . " See , also , Clearfield Independent School District , 29 P. F. S. 419. In the present case it does not appear that any defined notice was ordered to be given , and the report merely certifies that due public notice was ...
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... proceedings were subsequently had thereon , that on the 13th January , 1886 , a decree was entered , in con- formity with the prayer of the petitioners , declaring the borough of Summit incorporate , according to law , and to the ...
... proceedings were subsequently had thereon , that on the 13th January , 1886 , a decree was entered , in con- formity with the prayer of the petitioners , declaring the borough of Summit incorporate , according to law , and to the ...
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Popular passages
Page 334 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious, unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.
Page 591 - Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age and upwards (excepting paupers and persons under guardianship), who shall have resided within the Commonwealth one year, and within the town or district, in which he may claim a right to vote, six calendar months next preceding any election of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Senators, or Representatives, and who shall have paid...
Page 592 - ... to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without; so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the subjects of the same...
Page 774 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Page 326 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 774 - persons and property are subjected to all kinds of restraints and burdens, in order to secure the general comfort, health, and prosperity of the State ; of the perfect right of the Legislature to do which no question ever was, or upon acknowledged general principles ever can be, made, so far as natural persons are concerned.
Page 787 - And as to my worldly estate, and all the property, real and personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease.
Page 284 - The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage shall be prohibited. The general assembly shall provide by law for carrying this article into effect.
Page 693 - CD, of &.C., my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name...
Page 100 - But debts owing by corporations, like debts owing by individuals, are not property of the debtors in any sense ; they are obligations of the debtors, and only possess value in the hands of the creditors. With them they are property, and in their hands they may be taxed. To call debts property of the debtors is simply to misuse terms.