Atlantic Reporter, Volume 36West Publishing Company, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 56
... record , the issues were found for the defendants , and judgment for costs was rendered in their favor . In this condition of affairs , chapter 66 of the Public Acts of 1893 was passed , which reads as follows : " Section 1. An action ...
... record , the issues were found for the defendants , and judgment for costs was rendered in their favor . In this condition of affairs , chapter 66 of the Public Acts of 1893 was passed , which reads as follows : " Section 1. An action ...
Page 84
... record here . If this much of said return should so stand , then it was fatal to the application of the relators . For , since the re- turn is , under the established practice in this state , taken to be conclusive of the facts there ...
... record here . If this much of said return should so stand , then it was fatal to the application of the relators . For , since the re- turn is , under the established practice in this state , taken to be conclusive of the facts there ...
Page 87
... record or otherwise , that in the West Dover hundred election the ballots have been lost or destroyed , or that the re- sult was not ascertained at the close of the polls , or that the inspector of said hundred , or any of said ...
... record or otherwise , that in the West Dover hundred election the ballots have been lost or destroyed , or that the re- sult was not ascertained at the close of the polls , or that the inspector of said hundred , or any of said ...
Page 130
... records must often have arisen , and probably the reason why we find no report of such cases lies in the fact that ordinarily a majority , which has the power to pass a vote , also has the power to correct the record when there is an ...
... records must often have arisen , and probably the reason why we find no report of such cases lies in the fact that ordinarily a majority , which has the power to pass a vote , also has the power to correct the record when there is an ...
Page 131
... record the attachment . Held , that the case did not fall within the precise terms of the statute authorizing a record of an attach- ment , and that the attaching officer could him- self , or by a keeper , take and retain possession and ...
... record the attachment . Held , that the case did not fall within the precise terms of the statute authorizing a record of an attach- ment , and that the attaching officer could him- self , or by a keeper , take and retain possession and ...
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Page 280 - First, after the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses, I give devise and bequeath to my daughter Agatha Riple wife of Mathias Riple, all of my property both real and personal.
Page 108 - Judgment according as the very Right of the Cause and Matter in Law shall appear unto them...
Page 38 - Judicial power, as contradistinguished from the power of the laws, has no existence. Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law ; and when that is discerned, it is the duty of the court to follow it.
Page 290 - under all the evidence in the case the verdict must be for the defendant.
Page 149 - ... the Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in this State between the ages of five and eighteen years.
Page 168 - American experience table of mortality with interest at the rate of three and one-half per cent per annum...
Page 349 - This cause came on to be heard [or to be further heard, as the case may be] at this term, and was argued by counsel; and thereupon, upon consideration thereof, it was ordered, adjudged, and decreed as follows, viz.:" [Here insert the decree or order.] GUARDIANS AND PROCHEIN AMIS.
Page 364 - Industry," when used in this connection, to be "any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially one which employs much labor and capital, and Is a distinct branch of trade, as the sugar Industry, the iron industry, the cotton Industry.
Page 107 - ... whereby and by force of the statute in such case made and provided an action hath accrued to the plaintiff...
Page 444 - When, therefore, the existence of a person, a personal relation, or a state of things is once established by proof, the law presumes that the person, relation, or state of things continues to exist as before, until the contrary is shown or until a different presumption is raised, from the nature of the subject in question.