West Coast Reporter ...: Containing All the Decisions as Fast as Filed of the Following Courts: United States Circuit and District Courts of California, Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon, and the Supreme Courts of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Also Legal Essays and Editorial Notes ..., Volumes 9-10A.L. Bancroft, 1886 |
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Page 83
... offense against the laws- we supposed the certificate to be governed by the provisions of the statute relating to criminal cases , but the supreme court held the prac- tice in civil cases to be applicable , and declined to take ...
... offense against the laws- we supposed the certificate to be governed by the provisions of the statute relating to criminal cases , but the supreme court held the prac- tice in civil cases to be applicable , and declined to take ...
Page 157
... offense , however guilty in fact he may be , is entitled to a fair and impartial trial , and it is the judge in his private character , and not the law , which condemns when its forms and rules have been disregarded . But this court has ...
... offense , however guilty in fact he may be , is entitled to a fair and impartial trial , and it is the judge in his private character , and not the law , which condemns when its forms and rules have been disregarded . But this court has ...
Page 166
... offense was alleged to have been committed during an affray at a town meeting , and a witness for the prisoner was asked on his cross - examination whether he had been indicted for assault and battery committed on that day , which was ...
... offense was alleged to have been committed during an affray at a town meeting , and a witness for the prisoner was asked on his cross - examination whether he had been indicted for assault and battery committed on that day , which was ...
Page 167
... offense or serious charge brought against him . In People v . Elsler , 3 West Coast Rep . 37 , it was held that the credibility of a witness cannot be impeached by evidence that he has been arrested for a felony . The court say ...
... offense or serious charge brought against him . In People v . Elsler , 3 West Coast Rep . 37 , it was held that the credibility of a witness cannot be impeached by evidence that he has been arrested for a felony . The court say ...
Page 169
... offense by proof that the accused was guilty of others : " Church , C. J. , in Brown v . People , supra , which would not apply to witnesses other than the accused . In Wilbur v . Flood , 16 Mich . 43 , the defendant was sworn as a ...
... offense by proof that the accused was guilty of others : " Church , C. J. , in Brown v . People , supra , which would not apply to witnesses other than the accused . In Wilbur v . Flood , 16 Mich . 43 , the defendant was sworn as a ...
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Page 11 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 317 - ... upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment, order, or other proceeding, taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect...
Page 124 - ... together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof.
Page 326 - Court may change the place of trial in the following cases : 1. When the County designated for that purpose in the complaint is not the proper County ; 2. When there is reason to believe that an impartial trial cannot be had therein ; 3. When the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would be promoted by the change.
Page 595 - There can be but one action for the recovery of any debt, or the enforcement of any right, secured by mortgage upon real estate or personal property ; which action must be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Page 484 - State, exerted within the limits of those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions...
Page 321 - In case of the death, or other disability, of a party, the court, on motion, may allow the action to be continued by or against his representative or successor in interest. In case of any other transfer of interest, the action may be continued in the name of the original party, or the court may allow the person to whom the transfer is made to be substituted in the action.
Page 195 - ... as by keeping him away from court, a false promise of a compromise; or where the defendant never had knowledge of the suit, being kept in ignorance by the acts of the plaintiff; or where an attorney fraudulently or without authority assumes to represent a party and connives at his defeat ; or where the attorney regularly employed corruptly sells out his client's interest to the other side...
Page 371 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice, all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...
Page 476 - All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation; and the organization, jurisdiction, powers, proceedings and practice of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process, judgments and decrees of such courts, severally, shall be uniform.