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 17Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1891 |
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... circumstances , it seems to us to have been a very proper exercise of discretion on the part of the circuit judge to refuse to require one judgment to be set off against the other , as he could not have done so without dis- regarding ...
... circumstances , it seems to us to have been a very proper exercise of discretion on the part of the circuit judge to refuse to require one judgment to be set off against the other , as he could not have done so without dis- regarding ...
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... for the land . The court held that under the circumstances of the case the possession of the two sons was adverse to such purchaser . CASES IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA . WOLVERTON April , 1889. ] 55 GARVIN v . GARVIN .
... for the land . The court held that under the circumstances of the case the possession of the two sons was adverse to such purchaser . CASES IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA . WOLVERTON April , 1889. ] 55 GARVIN v . GARVIN .
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... circumstances , was such an act as an ordinarily prudent person might have been expected to do under like circumstances , although they may have further believed that the injury would not have happened if the act had not been done . In ...
... circumstances , was such an act as an ordinarily prudent person might have been expected to do under like circumstances , although they may have further believed that the injury would not have happened if the act had not been done . In ...
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... circumstances , he would have done so rests upon con- jecture merely , which is not necessary implication , but the opposite , and can never alone support a devise or bequest . In Jones v . Morgan , cited in 4 Bro . C. C. 460 , Lord ...
... circumstances , he would have done so rests upon con- jecture merely , which is not necessary implication , but the opposite , and can never alone support a devise or bequest . In Jones v . Morgan , cited in 4 Bro . C. C. 460 , Lord ...
Page 81
... circumstances of each particular case . A condition not to marry a Scotchman , or a Papist , or that the widow of the testator shall not marry again , has been held valid , and no reason is perceived why , ordinarily , a prohibi- tion ...
... circumstances of each particular case . A condition not to marry a Scotchman , or a Papist , or that the widow of the testator shall not marry again , has been held valid , and no reason is perceived why , ordinarily , a prohibi- tion ...
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Page 334 - No corporation shall be created by special laws, or its charter extended, changed or amended, except those for charitable, educational, penal or reformatory purposes, which are to be and remain under the patronage and control of the state, but the general assembly shall provide, by general laws, for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created.
Page 333 - Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
Page 331 - 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...
Page 231 - An acknowledgment in a policy of the receipt of premium is conclusive evidence of its payment, so far as to make the policy binding, notwithstanding any stipulation therein that it shall not be binding until the premium is actually paid.
Page 223 - ... during the marriage or afterwards, be, without the consent of the other, examined as to any communication made by one to the other during the marriage; but this exception does not apply to a civil action or proceeding by one against the other...
Page 919 - So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work: Powell v.
Page 255 - When any testator shall omit to provide in his will for any of his children, or for the issue of any deceased child...
Page 692 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free State, and ought not to be allowed.
Page 920 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
Page 430 - The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve it, unless made under such circumstances as to constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persons.