Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Volume 69Edward O. Jenkins, 1884 |
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Page 467 - Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament...
Page 420 - Title shall be construed to annul or affect any regulation established by the laws of any State, requiring vessels entering or leaving a port in any such State, other than coastwise steam vessels, to take a pilot duly licensed or authorized by the laws of such State, or of a State situate upon the waters of such State.
Page 322 - Private property shall not be taken, or damaged, for public purposes, without just and adequate compensation being first paid.
Page 183 - 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.
Page 419 - States, and provides that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State * * * deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Page 321 - ... but private property shall not be taken for, or applied to, public use, unless just compensation be first made therefor...
Page 230 - A bare fear of any of these offences, to prevent which the homicide is alleged to have been committed, shall not be sufficient to justify the killing. It must appear that the circumstances were sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person, and that the party killing really acted under the influence of those fears, and not in a spirit of revenge.
Page 220 - TIpon submission of the case, the jury returned the following verdict: "We, the jury, find for the plaintiff, A.
Page 570 - Society, whether the same consist of real or personal estate, and whether the same shall have been given, granted, or devised, directly to such Church, Congregation, or Society, or to any other person for their use...
Page 410 - By agreement of counsel, the case was submitted to the court below without the intervention of a jury, on an agreed statement of facts.