The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 95Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1903 |
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... enforce the law , when issuing his election proclamation adopted a portion of the act in question , and , coming to the counties surrounding Alturas and Logan , he found that said act provided one senator for Alta and Custer counties ...
... enforce the law , when issuing his election proclamation adopted a portion of the act in question , and , coming to the counties surrounding Alturas and Logan , he found that said act provided one senator for Alta and Custer counties ...
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... enforced against the buyer for the pur- chase price . It is alleged in the complaint that said ditchers were sold to ... enforce the contract , said statute would have been a complete defense to such action , but after the receipt and ...
... enforced against the buyer for the pur- chase price . It is alleged in the complaint that said ditchers were sold to ... enforce the contract , said statute would have been a complete defense to such action , but after the receipt and ...
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... Enforce - Demand.- If a municipal duty is of a strictly public nature required by law to be performed by a public officer , no demand for its performance is necessary before action brought to compel performance . The law itself is a ...
... Enforce - Demand.- If a municipal duty is of a strictly public nature required by law to be performed by a public officer , no demand for its performance is necessary before action brought to compel performance . The law itself is a ...
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... enforce such public rights , interpose by holding the municipality estopped from doing so . In the case at bar the legislature ( 15th Sess . Laws , sec . 7 , p . 35 ) commands the county commissioners of each of the four counties of ...
... enforce such public rights , interpose by holding the municipality estopped from doing so . In the case at bar the legislature ( 15th Sess . Laws , sec . 7 , p . 35 ) commands the county commissioners of each of the four counties of ...
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... enforce the performance of a public duty or obligation were intended to be included in this section , the legislature would have said so , as this would include actions of an entirely different nature from those speci- fied in the other ...
... enforce the performance of a public duty or obligation were intended to be included in this section , the legislature would have said so , as this would include actions of an entirely different nature from those speci- fied in the other ...
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Page 260 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States...
Page 336 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 260 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States...
Page 850 - The certificate of acknowledgment of an instrumeut executed by a corporation must be substantially in the following form : STATE or , ) County of . (bSOn this day of , in the year , before me [here insert the name and quality of the officer], personally appeared , known to me [or proved to me on the oath of ] to be the president [or the secretary] of the corporation that executed the within instrument, and acknowledged to me thut such corporation executed the same.
Page 260 - War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 841 - Class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited, but legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose, is limited in its application, if within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within /the amendment.
Page 521 - In order to come within the provision of the Constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...
Page 634 - ... or the issuance of mileage, excursion, or commutation passenger tickets; nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to municipal governments for the transportation of indigent persons, or to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of Soldiers
Page 37 - In the following cases the agreement is invalid, unless the same or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing, and subscribed by the party charged, or by his agent.
Page 209 - It is perhaps correct .to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good...