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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... given were not for her separate estate , and that the lender knew this at the time the money was loaned and the note taken . In Howard v . Kitchens , 31 S. C. 490 , it was decided that where a married woman borrows money for her own use ...
... given were not for her separate estate , and that the lender knew this at the time the money was loaned and the note taken . In Howard v . Kitchens , 31 S. C. 490 , it was decided that where a married woman borrows money for her own use ...
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... given to somebody else . Though the intention to disinherit the heir be ever so apparent , said Lord Mansfield , in Denn v . Gaskin , Cowp . 657 , he must of course inherit , unless the estate is given to somebody else . So in his ...
... given to somebody else . Though the intention to disinherit the heir be ever so apparent , said Lord Mansfield , in Denn v . Gaskin , Cowp . 657 , he must of course inherit , unless the estate is given to somebody else . So in his ...
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... given to the instrument ; the true inquiry being , not what the testator meant , but what the words used import . Judge Brooke , in his opinion , said : " When a testator has devised his estate by will , and is not precise as to the ...
... given to the instrument ; the true inquiry being , not what the testator meant , but what the words used import . Judge Brooke , in his opinion , said : " When a testator has devised his estate by will , and is not precise as to the ...
Page 80
... given over to some one else , the condition in question is only in terrorem . This position would be well taken if the condition were sub- sequent ; for the settled doctrine is , that where a personal leg- acy is given on a condition in ...
... given over to some one else , the condition in question is only in terrorem . This position would be well taken if the condition were sub- sequent ; for the settled doctrine is , that where a personal leg- acy is given on a condition in ...
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... given their services without compensation . We are dealing now with their responsibility to stockholders , not to outside parties , - creditors and depositors . It is unnecessary to consider what the rule may be as to them . Upon a ...
... given their services without compensation . We are dealing now with their responsibility to stockholders , not to outside parties , - creditors and depositors . It is unnecessary to consider what the rule may be as to them . Upon a ...
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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.