The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 35Bancroft-Whitney, 1881 |
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... amount due on the note , or to receive the note in part payment . Held , that the surety was thereby discharged . ILL to restrain a sale of lands under a mortgage , and to cancel BILL and discharge the mortgage , on the ground that the ...
... amount due on the note , or to receive the note in part payment . Held , that the surety was thereby discharged . ILL to restrain a sale of lands under a mortgage , and to cancel BILL and discharge the mortgage , on the ground that the ...
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... amount at all events . at some time which must certainly come , and not out of a particu- lar fund or upon a contingent event . If it were payable on a con- tingency or out of a particular fund it would not be negotiable . ” A note ...
... amount at all events . at some time which must certainly come , and not out of a particu- lar fund or upon a contingent event . If it were payable on a con- tingency or out of a particular fund it would not be negotiable . ” A note ...
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... amount payable , and the fact or event of payment , but they must be certain as to the payee . " It is equally essential , " says Judge STORY , " that the person , to whom the note is payable , should be clearly expressed , and made ...
... amount payable , and the fact or event of payment , but they must be certain as to the payee . " It is equally essential , " says Judge STORY , " that the person , to whom the note is payable , should be clearly expressed , and made ...
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... amount of damages the plaintiff was to recover . Judgment and order denying a new trial reversed , and the cause remanded for a new trial . Remittitur forthwith . Reversed and remanded . NOTE BY THE REPORTER.- The case of Steinfeld v ...
... amount of damages the plaintiff was to recover . Judgment and order denying a new trial reversed , and the cause remanded for a new trial . Remittitur forthwith . Reversed and remanded . NOTE BY THE REPORTER.- The case of Steinfeld v ...
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... amount or value of the prop- erty insured , stated in the application , is made a warranty ; and whether fraudulent or not , binds the assured ; and if the value is overstated , the policy is void . Levy v . Bailley , 7 Bing . 349 ; s ...
... amount or value of the prop- erty insured , stated in the application , is made a warranty ; and whether fraudulent or not , binds the assured ; and if the value is overstated , the policy is void . Levy v . Bailley , 7 Bing . 349 ; s ...
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Page 525 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 495 - In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open, and current account, where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.
Page 220 - The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property...
Page 645 - In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence; such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act.
Page 18 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 488 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle, that, wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it.
Page 308 - In respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally (ie, according to the usual course of things) from such breach of contract Itself, or as such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 18 - ... notwithstanding the party accused did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some public benefit, he is nevertheless punishable according to the nature of the crime committed, if he knew at the time of committing such crime that he was acting contrary to law ; by which expression we understand your lordships to mean the law of the land.
Page 598 - ... expressed in the written part of the policy, otherwise the policy shall be void.
Page 90 - All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends, are objects of taxation ; but those over which it does not extend, are, upon the soundest principles, exempt from taxation.