Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 23New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Edward Jordan Dimock, Hiram Edward Sickels, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, James Newton Fiero, Alvah S. Newcomb Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1867 |
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... manner at any time within fifteen days after such service . RULE 26. The call of the Calendar at the second , and each subsequent term in the year , will commence at the point where it terminated at the previous term ; except that ...
... manner at any time within fifteen days after such service . RULE 26. The call of the Calendar at the second , and each subsequent term in the year , will commence at the point where it terminated at the previous term ; except that ...
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... manner and form in which the request must be made , and the evidence by which it must be proved , are not prescribed . We apprehend it is clear that no precise form of words , addressed to each of the witnesses at the very time of the ...
... manner and form in which the request must be made , and the evidence by which it must be proved , are not prescribed . We apprehend it is clear that no precise form of words , addressed to each of the witnesses at the very time of the ...
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... manner and for the same purpose . In the statement of that case ( 1 Cow . , 397 ) , it is not stated whether the note was or was not on interest . But , at page 398 , in stating what occurred in submitting the case to the jury , it is ...
... manner and for the same purpose . In the statement of that case ( 1 Cow . , 397 ) , it is not stated whether the note was or was not on interest . But , at page 398 , in stating what occurred in submitting the case to the jury , it is ...
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... has the sanction of the State for what he does , and , unless he commits a fault in the manner of doing it , he is completely justified . Bellinger v . The New York Central Railroad . This NEW YORK , MARCH , 1861 . 47.
... has the sanction of the State for what he does , and , unless he commits a fault in the manner of doing it , he is completely justified . Bellinger v . The New York Central Railroad . This NEW YORK , MARCH , 1861 . 47.
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... manner they had done ; but that it did not follow that , in case an unfore- seen injury should arise to any one from the mode in which it was constructed , they are not liable to the action . They added that the company might , by ...
... manner they had done ; but that it did not follow that , in case an unfore- seen injury should arise to any one from the mode in which it was constructed , they are not liable to the action . They added that the company might , by ...
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Page 485 - Whenever 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 228 - The general doctrine is not controverted, that although movables are for many purposes to be deemed to have no situs, except that of the domicile of the owner, yet this being but a legal fiction it yields whenever it is necessary, for the purpose of justice, that the actual situs of the thing should be examined.
Page 204 - The sovereignty of a state extends to everything which exists by its own authority, or is introduced by its permission; but does it extend to those means which are employed by congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Page 14 - All that can be truly said is, that if a person, whether attorney or not, prepares a will with a legacy to himself, it is, at most, a suspicious circumstance of more or less weight, according to the facts of each particular case...
Page 441 - ... bearing a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable semiannually, which bonds shall be substantially in the following form : No.
Page 467 - March 3, 1818 (Revision, p. 294), which permits a recovery by the personal representatives of the decedent, for the benefit of the widow and next of kin, of the pecuniary loss resulting to them from such death.
Page 150 - But when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 403 - The universal doctrine now recognized by the common law is, that succession to personal property is governed, exclusively, by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death.
Page 485 - ... although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 228 - Story, in his commentaries just cited, " although movables are for many purposes to be deemed to have no situs, except that of the domicil of the owner, yet this being but a legal fiction, it yields, whenever it is necessary for the purpose of justice that the actual situs of the thing should be examined.