American law reports annotated, Volume 281924 |
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... provision of the statute that the assignment of a claim by a . person who was incompetent to testify for himself shall not make him compe- tent to testify for another referred only to a person who was incompetent under a preceding provision ...
... provision of the statute that the assignment of a claim by a . person who was incompetent to testify for himself shall not make him compe- tent to testify for another referred only to a person who was incompetent under a preceding provision ...
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... provision suspended or inopera- tive by reason of the provisions of $ 5954 , Rev. Codes , found in the Contempt Practice Act . That sec- tion gives an accused party who has been adjudged guilty of contempt a right of appeal in both ...
... provision suspended or inopera- tive by reason of the provisions of $ 5954 , Rev. Codes , found in the Contempt Practice Act . That sec- tion gives an accused party who has been adjudged guilty of contempt a right of appeal in both ...
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... provision of its by - laws which follows a general statutory requirement that certifi- cates issued to members joining such societies after they have reached a specified age shall be void . UNITED ORDER , G. S. v . MEEKINS ( reported ...
... provision of its by - laws which follows a general statutory requirement that certifi- cates issued to members joining such societies after they have reached a specified age shall be void . UNITED ORDER , G. S. v . MEEKINS ( reported ...
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... provisions , or as to the effect which such provisions would have if existing , mutual benefit societies have been held ... provision of its con- stitution and by - laws requiring ap- plicants for membership to be in good health . - That ...
... provisions , or as to the effect which such provisions would have if existing , mutual benefit societies have been held ... provision of its con- stitution and by - laws requiring ap- plicants for membership to be in good health . - That ...
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... provision of the defendant's charter . The same provision was the ratio decidendi in Stearns v . Atlantic & St. L. R. Co. ( 1858 ) 46 Me . 95 , where the claim held to be enforceable was based upon a statute ( passed before the ...
... provision of the defendant's charter . The same provision was the ratio decidendi in Stearns v . Atlantic & St. L. R. Co. ( 1858 ) 46 Me . 95 , where the claim held to be enforceable was based upon a statute ( passed before the ...
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Page 43 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 47 - ... disobedience or resistance by any such officer, or by any party, juror, witness, or other person, to any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of the said courts.
Page 589 - ... the exercise of the police power of the State shall never be abridged or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals or the general well-being of the State.
Page 20 - ... that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court...
Page 570 - Every such grant shall specify the mode of determining any valuation therein provided for, and shall make adequate provision by way of forfeiture of the grant, or otherwise, to secure efficiency of public service at reasonable rates, and the maintenance of the property in good order throughout the term of the grant.
Page 557 - Every person, having an interest in property subject to a lien, has the right to redeem it from the lien, at any time after the claim is due, and before his right of redemption is foreclosed...
Page 665 - If it was sufficient of itself, it was a question of law for the court and not of fact for the jury.
Page 63 - Writs of error, bills of exception, and appeals, shall be allowed in all cases from the final decisions of said district courts to the supreme court, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law; but in no case removed to the supreme court shall trial by jury be allowed in said court.
Page 311 - ... whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be really public shall be a judicial question, and as such, judicially determined, without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public.
Page 614 - An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections, and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot...