Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 37state, 1886 |
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... Statutes , which declares : " That the constituted authorities of incor- porated towns and cities of the State , shall not , hereafter , have power to contract any debt or pecuniary liability without fully providing , in the ordinance ...
... Statutes , which declares : " That the constituted authorities of incor- porated towns and cities of the State , shall not , hereafter , have power to contract any debt or pecuniary liability without fully providing , in the ordinance ...
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... statute referred to . Laycock vs. City , 35 Ann . 479 . This disposes of this point . We are not called upon to consider the rights of other judgment creditors whose judgments rank that of relators in order of registry . The record does ...
... statute referred to . Laycock vs. City , 35 Ann . 479 . This disposes of this point . We are not called upon to consider the rights of other judgment creditors whose judgments rank that of relators in order of registry . The record does ...
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... Statutes . His complaint , embodied in a bill of exceptions , is levelled at the judge's refusal of a new trial . The grounds of his motion were in substance : 1. That the indictment was defective for the reason that it failed to set ...
... Statutes . His complaint , embodied in a bill of exceptions , is levelled at the judge's refusal of a new trial . The grounds of his motion were in substance : 1. That the indictment was defective for the reason that it failed to set ...
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... statute , or whether the circumstantial evidence introduced and relied on by the State was sufficient to convict . Had the accused asked the judge to charge the jury that the ele- ments which he sets forth were essential to a conviction ...
... statute , or whether the circumstantial evidence introduced and relied on by the State was sufficient to convict . Had the accused asked the judge to charge the jury that the ele- ments which he sets forth were essential to a conviction ...
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... statute , we cannot construe that legislation as enlarging his powers beyond the single right then newly conferred . He cannot complain of sins the defendant has condoned . Judgment affirmed . Rehearing refused . DISSENTING OPINION ...
... statute , we cannot construe that legislation as enlarging his powers beyond the single right then newly conferred . He cannot complain of sins the defendant has condoned . Judgment affirmed . Rehearing refused . DISSENTING OPINION ...
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Page 132 - No foreign corporation shall do any business in this State without having one or more known places of business, and an authorized agent or agents in the same upon whom process may be served.
Page 88 - The registry preserves the evidence of mortgages and privileges during ten years, reckoning from the day of its date; its effect ceases, even against the contracting parties, if the inscriptions have not been renewed before the expiration of this time, in the manner in which they were first made.
Page 132 - States, the same shall not thereby become a foreign corporation, but the courts of this State shall retain jurisdiction over that part of the corporate property within the limits of the State in all matters which may arise, as if said consolidation had not taken place.
Page 525 - He has no extraterritorial power of official action; none which the court appointing him can confer, with authority to enable him to go into a foreign jurisdiction to take possession of the debtor's property; none which can give him, upon the principle of comity, a privilege to sue in a foreign court of another jurisdiction, as the judgment creditor himself might have done, where his debtor may be amenable to the tribunal which the creditor may seek.
Page 465 - The jury in all criminal cases shall be the judges of the law and of the facts on the question of guilt or innocence, having been charged as to the law applicable to the case by the presiding judge.
Page 237 - A corporation is an intellectual body, created by law, composed of individuals united under a common name, the members of which succeed each other, so that the body continues always the same, notwithstanding the change of the individuals which compose it, and which, for certain purposes, is considered as a natural person.
Page 971 - ... guise of such a contract, the real intent be merely to speculate in the rise or fall of prices, and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay to the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the date fixed for executing the contract, then the whole transaction constitutes nothing more than a wager and is null and void.
Page 521 - No vessel belonging to any citizen of the United States, trading from one port within the United States to another port within the United States, or employed in the bank, whale, or other fisheries, shall be subject to tonnage tax or duty, if such vessel be licensed, registered or enrolled.
Page 7 - The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 150 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...