The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 42Bancroft-Whitney, 1883 |
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... sufficient to constitute a public offense . It is manifest from words used in the indictment , that it was drafted under the second clause of § 1266 , Gantt's Dig . , the whole section being : " If the killing be done in the commission ...
... sufficient to constitute a public offense . It is manifest from words used in the indictment , that it was drafted under the second clause of § 1266 , Gantt's Dig . , the whole section being : " If the killing be done in the commission ...
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... sufficient . Whether appellees are criminally responsible for the death of Mrs. Saunders , must depend upon the evidence . A feloni- ous want of " due care and circumspection " in her treatment , must be proved as alleged . For a mere ...
... sufficient . Whether appellees are criminally responsible for the death of Mrs. Saunders , must depend upon the evidence . A feloni- ous want of " due care and circumspection " in her treatment , must be proved as alleged . For a mere ...
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... of abode , proper parental care or guardianship , or sufficient means of subsist- ence , or who for other cause is a wanderer through streets and Petition of Ferrier . alleys , and in other public Ferrier, Petition Hugill v Kinney.
... of abode , proper parental care or guardianship , or sufficient means of subsist- ence , or who for other cause is a wanderer through streets and Petition of Ferrier . alleys , and in other public Ferrier, Petition Hugill v Kinney.
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... sufficient to recover unless aided by suppressing evidence , or the fabrication of more evidence . It follows that all efforts to suborn witnesses , made by a party or his authorized agent , are for these reasons proper to be shown ...
... sufficient to recover unless aided by suppressing evidence , or the fabrication of more evidence . It follows that all efforts to suborn witnesses , made by a party or his authorized agent , are for these reasons proper to be shown ...
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... sufficient to render the company liable . But it ap- pears to us that the act of an employee of a railroad company , in removing a trespasser from a train , cannot be considered the act of the company , unless he was employed gene ...
... sufficient to render the company liable . But it ap- pears to us that the act of an employee of a railroad company , in removing a trespasser from a train , cannot be considered the act of the company , unless he was employed gene ...
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Page 270 - ... and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 137 - The question whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution is at all times a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
Page 22 - If the directors of any such company shall declare and pay any dividend when the company is insolvent, or any dividend the payment of which would render it insolvent, they shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing...
Page 500 - Reasonable cause has been generally defined to be such a state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary care and prudence to believe and conscientiously entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person is guilty of a crime.
Page 24 - ... shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted...
Page 253 - No will in writing, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked, or altered, otherwise than by some other will in writing, or some other writing of the testator, declaring such revocation or alteration, and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed...
Page 271 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 718 - The effect of these decisions we understand to be this, namely, that a contract for the sale of articles then existing, or such as the vendor in the ordinary course of his business manufactures or procures for the general market, whether on hand at the time or not, is a contract for the sale of goods, to which the statute applies. But, on the other hand, if the goods are to be manufactured especially for the purchaser, and upon his special order, and not for the general market, the case is not within...
Page 399 - Nothing can be clearer, both upon principle and authority, than the doctrine that the liability of a surety is not to be extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract.
Page 423 - And to remove all doubts concerning the meaning of the word " inhabitant " in this constitution, every person shall be considered as an inhabitant, for the purpose of electing and being elected into any office, or place within this state, in that town, district, or plantation where he dwelleth, or hath his home.