Albany Law Journal, Volume 24Weed, Parsons & Company, 1881 |
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... damages by reason of the worthlessness of accounts purchased by plaintiff from defend- ant . No fraud was practiced by the defendant . He was the owner of a stallion , and employed one Gleason to attend him ; and this agent turned over ...
... damages by reason of the worthlessness of accounts purchased by plaintiff from defend- ant . No fraud was practiced by the defendant . He was the owner of a stallion , and employed one Gleason to attend him ; and this agent turned over ...
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... damages . " You also con- cede that " the lawyer is worthy of his reward , and should have the means of compelling payment . " But it is precisely such concessions and the practices they encourage that Judge Sharswood deplores , as ...
... damages . " You also con- cede that " the lawyer is worthy of his reward , and should have the means of compelling payment . " But it is precisely such concessions and the practices they encourage that Judge Sharswood deplores , as ...
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... damage acts , under which not only the rumseller , but the owner of the premises where the rum is sold is liable for ... damages against a man for bad grammar or bad spelling . Again we wish Mr. Freeman had given us a speci- men of the ...
... damage acts , under which not only the rumseller , but the owner of the premises where the rum is sold is liable for ... damages against a man for bad grammar or bad spelling . Again we wish Mr. Freeman had given us a speci- men of the ...
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... damages ; and it makes no difference that the patient or husband supposed at the time that the intruder was a medical man , and therefore submitted without objection to his presence . The physician testified that the layman , who bore ...
... damages ; and it makes no difference that the patient or husband supposed at the time that the intruder was a medical man , and therefore submitted without objection to his presence . The physician testified that the layman , who bore ...
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... damages , that they shall receive in case of success a certain proportion of the recov- ery in lieu of fees . As such arrangements are most often made with persons of limited means , who can ill afford the expense of unsuccessful ...
... damages , that they shall receive in case of success a certain proportion of the recov- ery in lieu of fees . As such arrangements are most often made with persons of limited means , who can ill afford the expense of unsuccessful ...
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Page 251 - For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to perform the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad.
Page 146 - States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard' of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
Page 146 - Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States.
Page 113 - The court said there must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 249 - I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Page 308 - In all other cases,' he says, 'it is a general and indisputable rule that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy by suit or action at law, whenever that right is invaded.
Page 251 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a "commonwealth," in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great "leviathan," or, rather, to speak more reverently, of that "mortal god," to which we owe, under the "immortal God,
Page 255 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 97 - ... the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 197; Story, op. cit., § 1378. This Court has said that "the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms. This principle embraces alike those which affect its validity, construction, discharge and enforcement.
Page 29 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof ; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.