The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 5West Publishing Company, 1885 |
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... corporation made to a trustee , to secure the payment of its bonds , two mortgages of all its railroad , right of way , franchise , road - bed , stations and station - houses , depot grounds , and other property , already or thereafter ...
... corporation made to a trustee , to secure the payment of its bonds , two mortgages of all its railroad , right of way , franchise , road - bed , stations and station - houses , depot grounds , and other property , already or thereafter ...
Page 161
... corporation established under the laws of Ohio , party of the first part ; J. Gregory Smith , of St. Albans ... Corporation of New Hampshire , provided they execute this agreement , ) the Nashua & Lowell Railroad Corporation of New ...
... corporation established under the laws of Ohio , party of the first part ; J. Gregory Smith , of St. Albans ... Corporation of New Hampshire , provided they execute this agreement , ) the Nashua & Lowell Railroad Corporation of New ...
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... Corporation at Boston , or the person for the time being performing the duties now performed by said manager , before the last day of June and the last day of December of each year of said term , from funds in their hands received from ...
... Corporation at Boston , or the person for the time being performing the duties now performed by said manager , before the last day of June and the last day of December of each year of said term , from funds in their hands received from ...
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... corporation exercising no supervision over others engaged with them in the same employment and agents of the corporation , clothed with the control and management of a dis- tinct department , in which their duty is entirely that of ...
... corporation exercising no supervision over others engaged with them in the same employment and agents of the corporation , clothed with the control and management of a dis- tinct department , in which their duty is entirely that of ...
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... corporation cannot act personally . It requires some person to superin- tend structures , to purchase and control ... corporation . They are then the executive head or master . Their acts are the acts of the corporation . The duties ...
... corporation cannot act personally . It requires some person to superin- tend structures , to purchase and control ... corporation . They are then the executive head or master . Their acts are the acts of the corporation . The duties ...
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Page 440 - ... that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.
Page 122 - Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto "2 Dan.
Page 471 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any ship, or the owner, or master, or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look.out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 581 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 368 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the United States.
Page 614 - Property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its true value.
Page 121 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
Page 552 - In Testimony whereof, I, James Buchanan, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.
Page 472 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 550 - Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. And also, all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in or to the above described premises, and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances.