Minnesota Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota, Volumen8

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Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
 

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Página 212 - Forgery, or the crimen falsi, . . . may with us be defined (at common law) to be, 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right...
Página 126 - An action may be brought by one person against another for the purpose of determining an adverse claim, which the latter makes against the former for money or property upon an alleged obligation...
Página 259 - It is manifest that it was not left to the legislative power to enact any process which might be devised. The article is a restraint on the legislative as well as on the executive and judicial powers of the government, and cannot be so construed as to leave congress free to make any process 'due process of law
Página 99 - Whenever 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...
Página 358 - Provided, that in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead...
Página 526 - conveyance," as used in this section embraces every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real property is created, aliened, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be affected ; except wills...
Página 22 - ... that we have concluded, before the rule can be applied in any case of a statute prohibiting or enjoining things to be done, with a prohibition and a penalty, or a penalty only for doing a thing which it forbids, that the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so.
Página 101 - When the death of one Is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter If the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.
Página 454 - Costs are allowed of course to the plaintiff, upon a judgment in his favor, in the following cases ; 1.
Página 454 - But in an action for assault, battery, false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious prosecution, criminal conversation, or seduction, if the plaintiff recover less than fifty dollars damages, he shall recover no more costs than damages.

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