The Pacific Reporter, Volume 44

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West Publishing Company, 1896 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 300 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases...
Page 356 - A contract in writing may be altered by a contract in writing, or by an executed oral agreement, and not otherwise.
Page 423 - Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature, which is manifested by external circumstances, capable of proof. Malice is implied, when no considerable provocation appears, or when all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.
Page 261 - Appeal from order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that it failed to state a cause of action.
Page 189 - In consideration of the stipulations herein named and of dollars premium does insure for the term of from the day of 19 , at noon, to the day of *..... 19. . . ., at noon, against all direct loss or damage by fire, except as hereinafter provided...
Page 227 - Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, every express trust in real property, valid as such in its creation, vests the whole estate in the trustees, subject only to the execution of the trust. The beneficiaries take no estate or interest in the property, but may enforce the performance of the trust.
Page 95 - ... 1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence; 2. When a person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence ; 3. When a felony has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it; 4.
Page 165 - Parties to a question in difference, which might be the subject of a civil action, may, without action, agree upon a case containing the facts upon which the controversy depends, and present a submission of the same to any court which would have jurisdiction if an action had been brought; but it must appear, by affidavit, that the controversy is real and the proceedings in good faith, to determine the rights of the parties.
Page vii - Two hours on each side will be allowed for the argument, and no more, without special leave of the court, granted before the argument begins. The time thus allowed may be apportioned between the counsel on the same side, at their discretion...
Page 420 - When a sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds, or has reason to apprehend that resistance will be made to the execution of the process, he may command as many male inhabitants of his county as he may think proper to assist him in overcoming the resistance, and, if necessary, in seizing, arresting, and confining the persons resisting, their aiders and abettors.

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