Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 12Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1891 |
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Page 38
... parties to them . The Bank parted with its money in good faith , and to those who are now parties to the renewal paper . The loans may have been large and unusual , but , in the absence of fraud or bad faith on the part of the appellee ...
... parties to them . The Bank parted with its money in good faith , and to those who are now parties to the renewal paper . The loans may have been large and unusual , but , in the absence of fraud or bad faith on the part of the appellee ...
Page 51
... parties must not only be willing to marry , but they must not labor under any legal disability . Prior marriage was not , at common law , a canonical disability rendering the contract merely voidable , but it was a civil or legal dis ...
... parties must not only be willing to marry , but they must not labor under any legal disability . Prior marriage was not , at common law , a canonical disability rendering the contract merely voidable , but it was a civil or legal dis ...
Page 52
... parties ; all marriages solemnized when either of the par- ties was insane , or incapable from physical causes of ... parties having a former decreeing the nullity of such a marriage as wife or husband then living , shall be absolute ...
... parties ; all marriages solemnized when either of the par- ties was insane , or incapable from physical causes of ... parties having a former decreeing the nullity of such a marriage as wife or husband then living , shall be absolute ...
Page 69
... parties conclusively showed that it was an agreement for a lease from year to year . In all these cases where there was an agreement for a lease , and an entry under that agreement , and the courts have held the tenancy to be in ...
... parties conclusively showed that it was an agreement for a lease from year to year . In all these cases where there was an agreement for a lease , and an entry under that agreement , and the courts have held the tenancy to be in ...
Page 85
... parties by filing a cross - petition , as provided for in section 11 of said Act . The appellee Brown , the owner of the equity of redemption , and the only de- fendant in the condemnation proceeding , com- municated no information as ...
... parties by filing a cross - petition , as provided for in section 11 of said Act . The appellee Brown , the owner of the equity of redemption , and the only de- fendant in the condemnation proceeding , com- municated no information as ...
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Page 401 - After the passage of this act all property which shall pass by will or by the intestate laws of this state...
Page 111 - An action may be brought by the attorney-general, in the name of the people of this state, upon his own information, or upon the complaint of a private party, against any person who usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises any public office, civil or military, or any franchise within this state.
Page 240 - The General Assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful, by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her, or its property...
Page 161 - The stock and indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased except in pursuance of general law, nor without the consent of the persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock first obtained at a meeting to be held after sixty days' notice given in pursuance of law.
Page 68 - Distinctions in these respects must rest upon some reason upon which they can be defended — like the want of capacity in infants and insane persons; and if the legislature should undertake to provide that persons following some specified lawful trade or employment should not have capacity to make contracts, or to receive conveyances, or to build such houses as others were allowed to erect, or in any other way to make such use of their property as was permissible to others, it can scarcely be doubted...
Page 95 - Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of some person in the service of the employer, and entrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant were in proper condition.
Page 39 - Whenever a testator has a child born after the making of his will, either in his lifetime or after his death, and dies leaving such child unprovided for by any settlement, and neither provided for nor in any way mentioned in his will, the child succeeds to the same portion of the testator's real and personal property that he would have succeeded to if the testator had died intestate.
Page 285 - In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...
Page 150 - ... the intent of the devisor is manifest and certain that 1840. his children or issues should take, and as immediate devisees they cannot take, because they are not in rerum natura, and by way of remainder they cannot take, for that was not his intent, for the gift is immediate, therefore there such words shall be taken as words of limitation, scil.
Page 149 - The verdict of the jury was as follows: " We, the jury, find verdict for plaintiff, principal $278.75,