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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... condition , the former is estopped to deny the exist- ence or non - existence of such fact : Tousley v . Board of Education , 39 Minn . 419 ; Nicholas v . Austin , 82 Va . 817. So where one knowingly permits an- other to purchase land ...
... condition , the former is estopped to deny the exist- ence or non - existence of such fact : Tousley v . Board of Education , 39 Minn . 419 ; Nicholas v . Austin , 82 Va . 817. So where one knowingly permits an- other to purchase land ...
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... condition . - Master and Servant . — A MinNOR no less than an adult servant takes upon himself the ordinary hazards incident to the service in which he is en- gaged . PRACTICE . ON DEMURRER TO EVIDENCE , all evidence offered by the ...
... condition . - Master and Servant . — A MinNOR no less than an adult servant takes upon himself the ordinary hazards incident to the service in which he is en- gaged . PRACTICE . ON DEMURRER TO EVIDENCE , all evidence offered by the ...
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... condition , and under as good control as human care , foresight , and prudence could reasonably provide , and also to use due and proper care and caution in selecting careful and competent agents to operate said coal mines , and to run ...
... condition , and under as good control as human care , foresight , and prudence could reasonably provide , and also to use due and proper care and caution in selecting careful and competent agents to operate said coal mines , and to run ...
Page 62
... condition , yet they are bound to do all that human care , vigilance , and foresight can reasonably do , consistent with the modes of conveyance and the practical operation of the road , to put them in that condition , and to keep them ...
... condition , yet they are bound to do all that human care , vigilance , and foresight can reasonably do , consistent with the modes of conveyance and the practical operation of the road , to put them in that condition , and to keep them ...
Page 78
... condition is disregarded if the restraint is general or unreasonable . - MARRIAGE . CONDITION IN RESTRAINT OF , IS REASONABLE if it merely tends to restrain children from marrying into the family of a person designated . The word ...
... condition is disregarded if the restraint is general or unreasonable . - MARRIAGE . CONDITION IN RESTRAINT OF , IS REASONABLE if it merely tends to restrain children from marrying into the family of a person designated . The word ...
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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.