Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Volume 6S.C. Mercer, 1870 |
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... questions of practice and law , and we shall notice them as they arise in the record . First , On the trial of the ... question ; " to which they excepted , and the trial was had under the rulings of the Court ; and in this , we think ...
... questions of practice and law , and we shall notice them as they arise in the record . First , On the trial of the ... question ; " to which they excepted , and the trial was had under the rulings of the Court ; and in this , we think ...
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... question of its due execution , and whether they regarded the testator of a sound and disposing mind and memory , at its execution . The affirmative answer to this general question , is all that is expected in the first instance . When ...
... question of its due execution , and whether they regarded the testator of a sound and disposing mind and memory , at its execution . The affirmative answer to this general question , is all that is expected in the first instance . When ...
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... question , in view of all that he had stated : " Whether the testator was , at the time of making the Will , of sound and disposing mind and memory ? " The question was objected to , and the objection sus- tained by the Court . Since ...
... question , in view of all that he had stated : " Whether the testator was , at the time of making the Will , of sound and disposing mind and memory ? " The question was objected to , and the objection sus- tained by the Court . Since ...
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... questions of law applicable to the case . on We deem it not important to comment further the charge , but are ... question propounded to the witness , Thomas . DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE HENRY G. SMITH . I concur to reverse the ...
... questions of law applicable to the case . on We deem it not important to comment further the charge , but are ... question propounded to the witness , Thomas . DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE HENRY G. SMITH . I concur to reverse the ...
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... question , whether the witness believed the testator capable of making a Will . The reasons assigned by the Court , for excluding the latter branch of the ques- tion , is , that it involved a question of law and fact , -the very question ...
... question , whether the witness believed the testator capable of making a Will . The reasons assigned by the Court , for excluding the latter branch of the ques- tion , is , that it involved a question of law and fact , -the very question ...
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Page 265 - ... So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants of full age in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships to represent them in the general assembly: provided that for every five hundred free male inhabitants there shall be one representative...
Page 373 - A civil war is never solemnly declared ; it becomes such by its accidents, — the number, power, and organization of the persons who originate and carry it on. When the party in rebellion occupy and hold in a hostile manner a certain portion of territory ; have declared their independence ; have cast off their allegiance ; have organized armies; have commenced hostilities against their former sovereign, the world acknowledges them as belligerents, and the contest a war.
Page 244 - By the law of the land, is most clearly intended, the general law; a law, which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 459 - Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly and prompt conduct of the business, and by the failure to obey which the rights of those interested will not be prejudiced, are not commonly to be regarded as mandatory...
Page 245 - ... were intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government, unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.
Page 130 - SECTION 1. The legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives...
Page 666 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away : So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, • Neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 697 - ... which they are intended to explain ; they must so harmonize with those facts as to form one transaction; there must be a transaction of which they are considered a part; they must be concomitant with the principal act, and so connected with it as to be regarded as the result and consequence of co-existing motives.
Page 228 - That no man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
Page 665 - BENEATH our feet and o'er our head, Is equal warning given ; Beneath us lie the countless dead, — Above us, is the heaven. 2 Death rides on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower ; Each season has its own disease, Its peril — every hour.