The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 142

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West Publishing Company, 1912

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Page 371 - Claims for loss, damage, or delay must be made in writing to the carrier at the point of delivery or at the point of origin within four months after delivery of the property, or, in case of failure to make delivery, then within four months after a reasonable time for delivery has elapsed. Unless claims are so made the carrier shall not be liable.
Page 113 - This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void if the insured now has or shall hereafter make or procure any other contract of insurance, whether valid or not, on property covered in whole or in part by this policy...
Page x - The appellant or plaintiff in error, as the case may be, shall execute a bond, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the clerk...
Page 154 - Its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence ; where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing.
Page 371 - Received, subject to the classifications and tariffs in effect on the date of the issus of this bill Of lading, at , 191 ... from the property described below, in apparent good order, except as noted (contents and condition of contents of packages unknown...
Page 369 - No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb...
Page 371 - Sec. 10. Any alteration, addition, or erasure in this bill of lading which shall be made without the special notation hereon of the agent of the carrier issuing this bill of lading, shall be without effect, and this bill of lading shall be enforceable according to its original tenor.
Page 307 - ... the general rule of all parliamentary bodies is that, when a quorum is present, the act of a majority of the quorum is the act of the body. This has been the rule for all time, except so far as in any given case the terms of the organic act under which the body is assembled have prescribed specific limitations.
Page 154 - Whatever is notice enough to excite attention and put the party on his guard and call for inquiry is notice of everything to which such inquiry might have led. When a person has sufficient information to lead him to a fact he shall be deemed conversant of it.
Page 391 - A reservation is a clause in a deed, whereby the grantor reserves some new thing to himself issuing out of the thing granted, and not in ease before; (d) but an exception is always of a part of the thing granted, or out of the general words and description in the grant.

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