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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... true doctrine , that which is most con- sistent with all the principles which govern the liability and duty of carriers , and which seems to us required by the same necessity and public policy upon which these principles are founded ...
... true doctrine , that which is most con- sistent with all the principles which govern the liability and duty of carriers , and which seems to us required by the same necessity and public policy upon which these principles are founded ...
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... true that insanity , properly proved , is a complete answer to a criminal charge . An unsound mind cannot form a criminal intent ; and as crime in- cludes both act and intent , an indispensable constitutent is wanting , when the mind of ...
... true that insanity , properly proved , is a complete answer to a criminal charge . An unsound mind cannot form a criminal intent ; and as crime in- cludes both act and intent , an indispensable constitutent is wanting , when the mind of ...
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... true , the case could only find a court of last resort in the tribunal of heaven . This would defeat the ends of human justice , since the primal idea upon which it is based car- ries with it the further idea of human expiation for ...
... true , the case could only find a court of last resort in the tribunal of heaven . This would defeat the ends of human justice , since the primal idea upon which it is based car- ries with it the further idea of human expiation for ...
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... true , when the creditor is dealing with the prin- cipal , in the absence , and without the knowledge of the surety . The case has its unpleasant features , which , unexplained , if they do not create a presumption of sinister motive ...
... true , when the creditor is dealing with the prin- cipal , in the absence , and without the knowledge of the surety . The case has its unpleasant features , which , unexplained , if they do not create a presumption of sinister motive ...
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... true , his testimony and the memorandum are both competent evidence ; but if he did not know the contents of the memorandum to be true when it was made , although he saw it made , the memorandum is not admissible evidence . ( Se note ...
... true , his testimony and the memorandum are both competent evidence ; but if he did not know the contents of the memorandum to be true when it was made , although he saw it made , the memorandum is not admissible evidence . ( Se note ...
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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.