Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Volume 157

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Page 473 - Any person may be made a defendant who has or claims an interest in the controversy adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party to a complete determination or settlement of the question involved therein.
Page 522 - It shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare...
Page 604 - And the repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability...
Page 126 - ... on real estate, or of judgments or decrees in its favor ; all deposits of money, bullion, or other valuable thing...
Page 604 - The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.
Page 312 - The carrier and his customers do not stand on a footing of equality. The latter Is only one Individual of a million. He cannot afford to higgle or stand out and seek redress In the courts. His business will not admit such a course. He prefers rather to accept any bill of ladIng, or sign any paper the carrier presents — often, Indeed, without knowing what the one or the other contains. In most cases he has no alternative but to do this or abandon his business...
Page 456 - After a statute has been settled by judicial construction, the construction becomes, so far as contract rights acquired under it are concerned, as much a part of the statute as the text itself, and a change of decision is to all intents and purposes the same in its effect on contracts as an amendment of the law by means of a legislative enactment.
Page 278 - ... 1. When the debtor has been guilty of no fraud or bad faith, he is liable only for such damages as were contemplated, or may reasonably be supposed to have entered into the contemplation of the parties at the time of the contract.
Page 207 - The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station...
Page 40 - The Governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons.

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