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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... consideration for this transfer . Soon afterward , Peters & Brother , being informed of the insolvency of Munter & Brother , and claiming the right to stop the tobacco in transitu , demanded it of the carrier , the South & North Ala ...
... consideration for this transfer . Soon afterward , Peters & Brother , being informed of the insolvency of Munter & Brother , and claiming the right to stop the tobacco in transitu , demanded it of the carrier , the South & North Ala ...
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... consideration grows out of the refusal of the court to give in charge to the jury a special instruction requested , as follows : That if the jury entertain a reasonable doubt of the sanity of the accused at the time he shot Charles ...
... consideration grows out of the refusal of the court to give in charge to the jury a special instruction requested , as follows : That if the jury entertain a reasonable doubt of the sanity of the accused at the time he shot Charles ...
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... consideration of the charge in this case , which is murder , and is defined thus : ' Every person with a sound memory and discretion who shall unlawfully kill any reasonable creature in being , within this State , with malice ...
... consideration of the charge in this case , which is murder , and is defined thus : ' Every person with a sound memory and discretion who shall unlawfully kill any reasonable creature in being , within this State , with malice ...
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... and several in its terms , not negotiable , the consideration moving only to the principal , it was defined in Evans v . Keeland , 9 Ala . 46 , as White's Administrator v . Life Association of America . " DECEMBER TERM , 1879 . 45.
... and several in its terms , not negotiable , the consideration moving only to the principal , it was defined in Evans v . Keeland , 9 Ala . 46 , as White's Administrator v . Life Association of America . " DECEMBER TERM , 1879 . 45.
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... consideration of acts or omissions of the creditor , subsequent to the making of the con- tract , which have been relied upon as relieving the surety from lia- bility . Any alteration of the contract , without the consent of the surety ...
... consideration of acts or omissions of the creditor , subsequent to the making of the con- tract , which have been relied upon as relieving the surety from lia- bility . Any alteration of the contract , without the consent of the surety ...
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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.