Spurious InterpretationColumbia Law Review, 1907 - 386 pages |
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... Common Law Orders , Verdicts and Judgments . By John H. Best . I vol . $ 5.00 . to judgment and then on to Court of Last Resort . Illinois . Successive steps from præcipe Fiske & Company , Springfield , Contracts , A Selection of Cases ...
... Common Law Orders , Verdicts and Judgments . By John H. Best . I vol . $ 5.00 . to judgment and then on to Court of Last Resort . Illinois . Successive steps from præcipe Fiske & Company , Springfield , Contracts , A Selection of Cases ...
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... COMMON LAW By THOMAS A. STREET , A.M. , LL.B. THIS is a three - volume treatise on First Principles . Though it deals with fundamental questions , the work is in no sense a rudimentary one . It is written throughout from the standpoint ...
... COMMON LAW By THOMAS A. STREET , A.M. , LL.B. THIS is a three - volume treatise on First Principles . Though it deals with fundamental questions , the work is in no sense a rudimentary one . It is written throughout from the standpoint ...
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... common . Outside of constitutional law , where special reasons operate to keep it alive , the most conspicuous ex- ample in recent American case - law is the attempt in some juris- dictions to read into the statutes governing descent an ...
... common . Outside of constitutional law , where special reasons operate to keep it alive , the most conspicuous ex- ample in recent American case - law is the attempt in some juris- dictions to read into the statutes governing descent an ...
Page 384
... common - law courts the same problem which the rigid formalism of archaic procedure , and the terse obscurity of ancient codes , put before the jurists of antiquity . Cases must be decided , and they must be decided in the long run so ...
... common - law courts the same problem which the rigid formalism of archaic procedure , and the terse obscurity of ancient codes , put before the jurists of antiquity . Cases must be decided , and they must be decided in the long run so ...
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... common - law country where questions of politics and economics are so frequently referred to the courts , the knowledge that courts exercise , or may exercise , a power of spurious interpretation sub- jects the courts to political ...
... common - law country where questions of politics and economics are so frequently referred to the courts , the knowledge that courts exercise , or may exercise , a power of spurious interpretation sub- jects the courts to political ...
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Page 433 - An accommodation party is one who has signed the instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor, or indorser, without receiving value therefor, and for the purpose of lending his name to' some other person. Such a person is liable on the instrument to a holder for value, notwithstanding such holder at the time of taking the instrument knew him to be only an accommodation party.
Page 390 - Upon any indictment for embezzlement, it is a sufficient defense that the property was appropriated openly and avowedly, and under a claim of title preferred in good faith, even though such claim is untenable.
Page 413 - ... access to the navigable part of the river from the front of his lot; the right to make a landing, wharf, or pier for his own use, or for the use of the public, subject to such general rules and regulations as the legislature may see proper to impose for the protection of the rights of the public, whatever those may be.
Page 388 - April, 1906. possession, appropriates the same to his own use, or that of any other person other than the true owner or person entitled to the benefit thereof; Steals such property, and is guilty of larceny.
Page 403 - ... undisposed of, and no valid direction for their accumulation is given, such rents and profits shall belong to the persons presumptively entitled to the next eventual estate.
Page 394 - The fact that the defendant intended to restore the property stolen or embezzled, is no ground of defense, or of mitigation of punishment, if it has not been restored before complaint to a magistrate, charging the commission of the crime.
Page 388 - A person who, with the intent to deprive or defraud the true owner of his property...
Page 393 - It is agreed upon all sides that the crime of larceny may not be committed unintentionally, unconsciously, or by mistake, but that, in order to accomplish it, the perpetrator must have the intent referred to. It may be difficult at all times exactly and satisfactorily to define this intent, but the requirement for it as applicable to this case means that, when the relator took part in the appropriation of the moneys in question, he must have had in some degree that same conscious, unlawful, and wicked...