Albany Law Journal, Volume 24Weed, Parsons & Company, 1881 |
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... nature of a quitclaim - an admission that the rightful ownership had never been in the United States , but at the time of the cession it had passed to the claimant , or to those under whom he claimed . This principle has been more than ...
... nature of a quitclaim - an admission that the rightful ownership had never been in the United States , but at the time of the cession it had passed to the claimant , or to those under whom he claimed . This principle has been more than ...
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... nature and wheresoever , " to the testator's father , during the life of a certain other per- son ; and after the death of such person bequeaths $ 100 to a sister of the testator , " $ 100 in money and all my other personal property ...
... nature and wheresoever , " to the testator's father , during the life of a certain other per- son ; and after the death of such person bequeaths $ 100 to a sister of the testator , " $ 100 in money and all my other personal property ...
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... nature of his calling , will prefer to give assistance as a matter of charity , rather than place himself in a position that antagonizes the interest of the client , at the same time that in great degree it incapacitates him from ...
... nature of his calling , will prefer to give assistance as a matter of charity , rather than place himself in a position that antagonizes the interest of the client , at the same time that in great degree it incapacitates him from ...
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... nature of the risk . I am by no means sure that all such bargains should not be made invalid , and for this reason alone . " a species of sophistry unworthy of a special pleader conscious of defeat upon the merits . If the deceased ...
... nature of the risk . I am by no means sure that all such bargains should not be made invalid , and for this reason alone . " a species of sophistry unworthy of a special pleader conscious of defeat upon the merits . If the deceased ...
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... nature plus any municipal regulations , either of a moral , social or commercial character , that the well being of society may from time to time re- quire . HUGH WEIGHTMAN . NEW YORK , June 23 , 1881 . STATE STATUTE ABOLISHING IMPRISON ...
... nature plus any municipal regulations , either of a moral , social or commercial character , that the well being of society may from time to time re- quire . HUGH WEIGHTMAN . NEW YORK , June 23 , 1881 . STATE STATUTE ABOLISHING IMPRISON ...
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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.