Pennsylvania Bar Association. Meeting. Report of the ... Annual Meeting ..., Volume 23The Association, 1917 |
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66 Philadelphia 66 Pittsburgh Admiralty Admission Admitted Allegheny Altoona American Bar Association annual meeting appointed BASEHORE Beaver Bedford Springs Berks Blair born Chairman Chambersburg CHARLES Chestnut street ciation Clearfield Clearfield County COLAHAN common law Commonwealth Constitution COUNTY BAR COUNTY-continued Cumberland CYRUS G Dauphin delegates died District Doylestown Duly seconded EDWARD EDWIN elected Erie Estate Trust Building Executive Committee Fayette FRANCIS FRANK Frick Building GEORGE GEORGE W Harrisburg HARRY HENRY Hollidaysburg Huntingdon Inft JAMES JOHN Johnson JOSEPH Judge June June 26 Lackawanna Lancaster Land Title Building lawyer Lebanon Legal Biography Legislature Luzerne Lycoming Montgomery negligence Norristown Northampton Northumberland Oliver Building PATTERSON Pennsylvania Bar Association Philadelphia Pittsburgh plaintiff practice President Reading Real Estate Trust ROBERT rule SAMUEL SAMUEL E Scranton Secretary SMITH Special Committee Staake Stephen Girard Stephen Girard Building Supreme Court THOMAS tion Uniontown WALTER Warren Washington West Chester Wilkes-Barre WILLIAM H Williamsport York
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Page 305 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 150 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 219 - ... reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason...
Page 194 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Page 237 - In the first place, it may happen without blame being imputable to either party, as when the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major : in that case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it happens to light; the other not being responsible to him in any degree.
Page 202 - ... its power is the same with that of my own permanent . self, and that all the choice, which is permitted to me, consists in having it for my guardian angel or my avenging fiend ! This is the spirit of law...
Page 416 - States and maintain representative government; to advance the science of jurisprudence : to promote the administration of justice...
Page 219 - And therefore if all the reason that is dispersed into so many several heads, were united into one, yet could he not make such a law as the law of England is ; because by many successions of ages, it hath been fined and refined by an infinite number of grave and learned men...
Page 208 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Page 237 - ... to him in any degree. Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame; where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides: in such a case, the rule of law is that the loss must be apportioned between them, as having been occasioned by the fault of both of them. Thirdly, it may happen by the misconduct of the suffering party only; and then the rule is, that the sufferer must bear his own burden. Lastly...