Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 50Bancroft-Whitney, 1876 |
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... damage , and the defendant asked to set it off against the rent . The plaintiff moved to strike out this part of the amended answer , and the court granted the motion . The answer , as it stood , denied any indebtedness on the lease ...
... damage , and the defendant asked to set it off against the rent . The plaintiff moved to strike out this part of the amended answer , and the court granted the motion . The answer , as it stood , denied any indebtedness on the lease ...
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... damages he had received from the failure of the landlord to perform any of the covenants of the lease . ( Tay- lor's Landlord and Tenant , p . 273 , Sec . 374 ; 22 Wend . 155 ; 8 Paige , 599 ; 11 Paige , 569 ; 1 Clark , 511 ; 3 Hill ...
... damages he had received from the failure of the landlord to perform any of the covenants of the lease . ( Tay- lor's Landlord and Tenant , p . 273 , Sec . 374 ; 22 Wend . 155 ; 8 Paige , 599 ; 11 Paige , 569 ; 1 Clark , 511 ; 3 Hill ...
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... damages in other matters , all of which they claimed to set off against the amount due on the mortgage . The plaintiffs , in their complaint , claimed that by the agreement of the parties , the deed which they received was to be a ...
... damages in other matters , all of which they claimed to set off against the amount due on the mortgage . The plaintiffs , in their complaint , claimed that by the agreement of the parties , the deed which they received was to be a ...
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... DAMAGES IN ACTION TO CONDEMN LAND . - In a proceeding to con- demn land for railroad purposes , damages resulting to the remainder of the tract not taken , on account of the shape in which it will be left , or of the effect of an ...
... DAMAGES IN ACTION TO CONDEMN LAND . - In a proceeding to con- demn land for railroad purposes , damages resulting to the remainder of the tract not taken , on account of the shape in which it will be left , or of the effect of an ...
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... damages to the remainder of the tract resulting from the particular location of the depot , the shape in which it was proposed to cut the land by the track , the building of an embankment on the track , and from the condition in which ...
... damages to the remainder of the tract resulting from the particular location of the depot , the shape in which it was proposed to cut the land by the track , the building of an embankment on the track , and from the condition in which ...
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Page 287 - ... if made by a person having at the time the possession or control of the property, and not accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things transferred, to be fraudulent, and therefore void, against those who are his creditors while he remains in possession...
Page 100 - ... that a sum exceeding such bid at least ten per cent., exclusive of the expenses of a new sale, may be obtained, the court may vacate the sale and direct another to be had...
Page 507 - CD will appear and answer the charge above mentioned, in whatever court it may be prosecuted, and will at all times hold himself amenable to the orders and process of the court...
Page 406 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 65 - Now, Know ye, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity, with the several Acts of Congress in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Conrad B. Pack, and to his heirs, the said Tract above described...
Page 552 - The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, cannot exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other case, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint and embraced within the issue.
Page 234 - A witness may be impeached by the party against whom he was called, by contradictory evidence, or by evidence that his general reputation for truth is bad, or that his moral character is such as to render him unworthy of belief, but not by evidence of particular wrongful acts ; except that it may be shown by the examination of the witness, or the record of the judgment, that he has been convicted of a felony.
Page 65 - ... not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 406 - ... far as the same can be ascertained, a description of all the real estate of which the testator or intestate died seized...
Page 597 - A will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of his property to take effect after his decease, and which is, in Its own nature, ambulatory and revocable during his life.