Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Volume 66Edward O. Jenkins, 1880 - Equity |
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Page 301 - In the removal of a cause from a State to a Federal court...
Page 300 - ... at any time before the trial or final hearing of the suit, if before or at the time of filing said petition he makes and files in said state court an affidavit stating that he has reason to believe, and does believe, that, from prejudice or local influence, he will not be able to obtain justice in such state court.
Page 147 - State one year next preceding the election, and shall have resided six months in the county in which he offers to vote, and shall have paid all taxes which may hereafter be required of him, and which he may have had an opportunity of paying, agreeably to law, except for the year of the election, shall be deemed an elector...
Page 334 - Laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the State, and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law. No general law affecting private rights, shall be varied in any particular case, by special legislation, except with the free consent, in writing, of all persons to be affected thereby ; and no person under legal disability to contract, is capable of such consent.
Page 64 - That where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial, is dead, or is shown to the court to be insane ; or when an executor or administrator is a party, the other party shall not be admitted to testify in his own favor...
Page 103 - In case of excess, the directors, under whose administration it shall happen, shall be liable for the same, in their...
Page 551 - ... or any officer in whose custody he may be, or may direct the examination to be had, taken, and certified, at such time and place and in such manner, as the court may deem proper, and with like effect as if such examination had been had in court.
Page 303 - ... is a suit in which there can be a final determination of the controversy, so far as concerns him, without the presence of the other defendants as parties in the cause.
Page 296 - And where a suit is now pending, or may be hereafter brought in any state court in which there is a controversy between a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state...
Page 302 - That if a suit be commenced in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another state...