Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Volume 10, Part 1887E.C. Markley & Son, 1887 |
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American Bar Association. States and Territories of the United States shall have the right and power to convey all such criminals as may have been convicted twice , and whose sentence shall be not less on the second conviction than five ...
American Bar Association. States and Territories of the United States shall have the right and power to convey all such criminals as may have been convicted twice , and whose sentence shall be not less on the second conviction than five ...
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American Bar Association. State of New York . The law in relation to both States on that point was substantially the same - namely , that this paroling of prisoners was to be such as to keep them within the control of the prison ...
American Bar Association. State of New York . The law in relation to both States on that point was substantially the same - namely , that this paroling of prisoners was to be such as to keep them within the control of the prison ...
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American Bar Association. The President : The question is now on the adoption of the resolution . All those who are in favor of its adoption will say aye . Carried . The President : There being no other business before the Association ...
American Bar Association. The President : The question is now on the adoption of the resolution . All those who are in favor of its adoption will say aye . Carried . The President : There being no other business before the Association ...
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American Bar Association. The address was then read . ( See Appendix . ) The President : The next business in order consists of the reports from standing committees . The first committee of the list is the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law ...
American Bar Association. The address was then read . ( See Appendix . ) The President : The next business in order consists of the reports from standing committees . The first committee of the list is the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law ...
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American Bar Association. being trained in the law , shall be the guide of the arbitrators . Some think that the reason why arbitration has not been suc- cessful heretofore is because there was no such guide . Wilbur F. Sanders , of ...
American Bar Association. being trained in the law , shall be the guide of the arbitrators . Some think that the reason why arbitration has not been suc- cessful heretofore is because there was no such guide . Wilbur F. Sanders , of ...
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Page 157 - New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Total 732 686 i.
Page 392 - A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this, act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determined future time, a sum certain- in money to order, or to bearer.
Page 383 - A bill must be protested at the place where it is dishonored, except that when a bill drawn payable at the place of business, or residence of some person other than the drawee, has been dishonored by non-acceptance, it must be protested for non-payment at the place where it is expressed to be payable, and no further presentment for payment to, or demand on, the drawee is necessary.
Page 158 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant...
Page 199 - To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration of the laws, Each of them is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 337 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 161 - All claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract express or implied with the government of the United States...
Page 381 - Where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in different places, the notice must be given within the following times : 1. If...
Page 372 - An accommodation party is one who has signed the instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor or indorser, without receiving value therefor, and for the purpose of lending his name to some other person. Such a person is liable on the instrument to a holder for value, notwithstanding such holder at the time of taking the instrument knew him to be only an accommodation party.
Page 297 - Undoubtedly in mere private contracts, relating to matters in which the public has no interest, what is reasonable must be ascertained judicially. But this is because the legislature has no control over such a contract. So, too, in matters which do affect the public interest, and as to which legislative control may be exercised, if there are no statutory regulations upon the subject, the courts must determine what is reasonable.