The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 36West Publishing Company, 1888 |
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Page 303 - In the case of an assignment of a thing in action, the action by the assignee shall be without prejudice to any setoff or other defense, existing at the time of, or before notice of the assignment; but this Section shall not apply to a negotiable promissory note or bill of exchange, transferred in good faith, and upon good consideration, before due.
Page 376 - Error of law occurring at the trial, and excepted to by the party making the application.
Page 102 - Inveigles or entices an unmarried female, of previous chaste character, into a house of ill-fame or of assignation, or elsewhere. for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse; or, 3.
Page 308 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 630 - Campau was said to be worth $100,000; but when the change of times came, he made an assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors, except the Old Congregational Church, which he deeded to his mother.
Page 67 - That when a suit or proceeding is prosecuted "or defended by the heirs, assigns, devisees, legatees, or personal representatives of a deceased person...
Page 23 - ... them, has the same remedies, by entry, action or otherwise, for the nonperformance of any agreement contained in the assigned lease for the recovery of rent, for the doing of any waste, or for other cause of forfeiture as his grantor or lessor had, or would have had, if the reversion had remained in him.
Page 611 - If the demurrer can be sustained at all, it must be upon the ground that the complaint does not state facts constituting a cause of action...
Page 151 - Before service can be made by publication, an affidavit must be filed that service of a summons cannot be made within this State, on the defendant or defendants, to be served by publication, and that the case is one of those mentioned in the preceding section. When such affidavit is filed the party may proceed to make service by publication.
Page 416 - Meander lines are run in surveying fractional portions of the public lands bordering upon navigable rivers, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the purpose of defining the sinuosities of the banks of the stream, and as the means of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction subject to sale, and which is to be paid for by the purchaser.