Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 189Bancroft-Whitney, 1923 |
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Page 427 - Courts take judicial notice of the following facts: 1. The true signification of all English words and phrases, and of all legal expressions; 2. Whatever is established by law; 3. Public and private official acts of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of this state and of the United States...
Page vi - ... justices. The chief justice may convene the court in bank at any time, and shall be the presiding justice of the court when so convened. The concurrence of four justices present at the argument shall be necessary to pronounce a judgment in bank; but if four justices so present do not concur in a judgment, then 'all the justices qualified to sit in the cause shall hear the argument; but to render a judgment a concurrence of four justices shall be necessary.
Page 290 - Neither party to an obligation can be compelled specifically •to perform it, unless the other party thereto has performed, or is compellable specifically to perform, everything to which the former is entitled under the same obligation, either completely or nearly so, together with full compensation for any want of entire performance.
Page 505 - A divorce must not be granted unless the plaintiff has been a resident of the state one year, and of the county in which the action is brought three months, next preceding the commencement of the action...
Page 200 - They say that to permit the respondent to take the property willed to him would be to permit him to take advantage of his own wrong. To sustain their position the appellants...
Page 335 - When the contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court, or judge at chambers, an affidavit shall be presented to the court or judge, of the facts constituting the contempt, or a statement of the facts by the referees or arbitrators.
Page 338 - Act of 1915 (Stat. 1915, p. 397), which provided that "every person operating or driving a motor or other vehicle on the public highways of this state shall operate or drive the same in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed not greater than is reasonable and proper...
Page 105 - Nothing in subsection (c) or (d) shall be construed to amend, repeal, impair, or affect existing laws or powers of the States In relation to taxation or the lawful police regulations of the several States, except wherein such laws, powers, or regulations may affect the transmission of Government communications, or the issue of stocks and bonds by any communication system or systems.
Page 175 - SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Page 155 - Whenever any person is declared punishable for a crime by imprisonment in -the state prison for a term not less than any specified number of years, and no limit to the duration of such imprisonment is declared, the court authorized to pronounce judgment upon such conviction iflay, in its discretion, sentence such offender to imprisonment during his natural life, or for any number of years not less than that prescribed.