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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Page 45
... performance of a contract which she has no power to make cannot operate as an estoppel , for the obvious reason that the expression of an intention to do that which she has no power to do ought not to mislead one who is presumed to know ...
... performance of a contract which she has no power to make cannot operate as an estoppel , for the obvious reason that the expression of an intention to do that which she has no power to do ought not to mislead one who is presumed to know ...
Page 91
... performance of these duties , and it is in the scrutiny of possible breaches of them that the rigid rules which govern trustees have been applied . It is not enough to exculpate a director that no ac- tual dishonesty can be shown ; that ...
... performance of these duties , and it is in the scrutiny of possible breaches of them that the rigid rules which govern trustees have been applied . It is not enough to exculpate a director that no ac- tual dishonesty can be shown ; that ...
Page 95
... performance . They plead ignorance . One of their number was the president of the Washington and Ohio railroad in its last hours , and knew its condition , and secured himself ; but the notes due the bank were allowed to sleep un ...
... performance . They plead ignorance . One of their number was the president of the Washington and Ohio railroad in its last hours , and knew its condition , and secured himself ; but the notes due the bank were allowed to sleep un ...
Page 97
... performance of their duties , unless such mistakes arise from ignorance of facts of which they could not have been ignorant had they exer- cised ordinary care in discharging the functions of their office : Hodges v . New England Screw ...
... performance of their duties , unless such mistakes arise from ignorance of facts of which they could not have been ignorant had they exer- cised ordinary care in discharging the functions of their office : Hodges v . New England Screw ...
Page 118
... performance of a contract to erect a city hall upon a lot which the plaintiffs had conveyed to the city for that purpose , and to enjoin the erection of such hall upon any other site . The con- veyance from the plaintiffs to the city ...
... performance of a contract to erect a city hall upon a lot which the plaintiffs had conveyed to the city for that purpose , and to enjoin the erection of such hall upon any other site . The con- veyance from the plaintiffs to the city ...
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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.