Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, Volume 6M. Curlander, 1896 |
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... execution ; but a stay of execution shall be entered if , & c . , & c .; and again , that no motion for a new trial for any other D. C. ] Opinion of the Court . cause shall 26 WALTER v . THE B. & O. R. R. CO .
... execution ; but a stay of execution shall be entered if , & c . , & c .; and again , that no motion for a new trial for any other D. C. ] Opinion of the Court . cause shall 26 WALTER v . THE B. & O. R. R. CO .
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... execution , unlesss the party moving shall execute an under- taking , & c . , & c . But in 1886 , the rules were revised , and the latter part of the above rule was omitted from the new ones , leaving as the only rule which allowed the ...
... execution , unlesss the party moving shall execute an under- taking , & c . , & c . But in 1886 , the rules were revised , and the latter part of the above rule was omitted from the new ones , leaving as the only rule which allowed the ...
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... executed and had been acquiesced in by the Board of Public Works , the Legislative Assembly , Congress , and the Com- missioners and attorneys of the District . Its legality was first questioned October 16 , 1891. The contract was based ...
... executed and had been acquiesced in by the Board of Public Works , the Legislative Assembly , Congress , and the Com- missioners and attorneys of the District . Its legality was first questioned October 16 , 1891. The contract was based ...
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... execution of judgments , are to be regulated solely and ex- clusively by the laws of the place where the action is insti- tuted ; or , as the civilians uniformly express it , according to the lex fori ; " and that the proceeding ...
... execution of judgments , are to be regulated solely and ex- clusively by the laws of the place where the action is insti- tuted ; or , as the civilians uniformly express it , according to the lex fori ; " and that the proceeding ...
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... executed in this District . The equitable plaintiff , then , would seem to be in this predicament , to wit , that she cannot sue , claiming under the law of Maryland , except by and in the name of that State , and that she cannot bring ...
... executed in this District . The equitable plaintiff , then , would seem to be in this predicament , to wit , that she cannot sue , claiming under the law of Maryland , except by and in the name of that State , and that she cannot bring ...
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Page 60 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 531 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 60 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused, and shall be brought by and in the name of the executor or administrator of the person deceased; and in every such action the...
Page 135 - Still, this privilege must be restrained by some limit, and we consider that limit to be this : that a party or counsel shall not avail himself of his situation to gratify private malice by uttering slanderous expressions, either against a party, witness, or third person, which have no relation to the cause or subject-matter of the inquiry.
Page 495 - A ministerial duty, the performance of which may, in proper cases, be required of the head of a department, by judicial process, is one in. respect to which nothing is left to discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and imposed by law.
Page 153 - Every such action shall be brought by and in the name of the personal representative of such deceased person...
Page 479 - US 345, 355, in the latter of which cases it was said that " the legislature, in the exercise of its power of taxation, has the right to direct the whole or...
Page 88 - ... explain the principle thereof, and the best mode in which he has contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions; and he shall particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery.
Page 12 - Every person who shall set up or keep any table or gambling device, commonly called ABC, faro bank, EO, roulette, equality, keuo, or any kind of gambling table or gambling device, adapted, devised and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property...
Page 5 - ... to any person by reason of any former marriage whose husband or wife by such marriage shall have been absent for five successive years, and is not known to such person to be living, and is believed by such person to be dead, nor to any person by reason of any former marriage which shall have been dissolved by a valid decree of a 1 Section I of the act of July 1, 1862 [No.