The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volumen44Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1895 |
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... COMMON CARRIERS - CONNECTING LINES - LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY . - It a common carrier gives the shipper a bill of lading stating that the goods received are to be transported by itself and connecting carriers to a certain point beyond ...
... COMMON CARRIERS - CONNECTING LINES - LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY . - It a common carrier gives the shipper a bill of lading stating that the goods received are to be transported by itself and connecting carriers to a certain point beyond ...
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... common carrier can- not limit his legal liability by any notice given , either by publication or by entry on receipts given or tickets sold . He may make an express contract , and 384 will then be governed thereby . " According to the ...
... common carrier can- not limit his legal liability by any notice given , either by publication or by entry on receipts given or tickets sold . He may make an express contract , and 384 will then be governed thereby . " According to the ...
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... common law it was not necessary that written or printed defamatory words should charge a crime in order to make them actionable , but it was sufficient if they tended to bring a man into public hatred , contempt , or ridicule : McGregor ...
... common law it was not necessary that written or printed defamatory words should charge a crime in order to make them actionable , but it was sufficient if they tended to bring a man into public hatred , contempt , or ridicule : McGregor ...
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... common principles of truth , " and " had made the office of clerk a sub- ject of private negotiation between men to whom 497 he was under personal obligations , and endeavored to cancel those debts by a barter of office " : Robbins v ...
... common principles of truth , " and " had made the office of clerk a sub- ject of private negotiation between men to whom 497 he was under personal obligations , and endeavored to cancel those debts by a barter of office " : Robbins v ...
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... common law , it was manslaughter for a husband to kill an adulterer even when caught in the very act of illicit inter- course with the slayer's wife ; and it is only by virtue of sec tion 4334 of our code , which follows the sections ...
... common law , it was manslaughter for a husband to kill an adulterer even when caught in the very act of illicit inter- course with the slayer's wife ; and it is only by virtue of sec tion 4334 of our code , which follows the sections ...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volumen43 Vista completa - 1895 |
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action affirmed agent alleged amount appears appellant appellee applied assignment assumpsit authority bank bill of lading carrier cars cashier cause cause of action charge cited claim committed common carrier common law constitution contract corporation court court of equity creditor crime damages debt declared defendant defendant's demurrer dollars duty entitled equity error evidence execution executor extended note fact fraud ground heirs held husband indebtedness injury issue judgment jurisdiction jury justice land liable lien loss marriage matter ment mortgage municipality negligence notice opinion owner paid party payment person plaintiff plaintiff in error premises purchaser purpose question R. R. Co railroad company railway reason recover res judicata rule servant statute subrogation sufficient sustained testator testimony tion trial verdict void warrant Western Union wife
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Página 551 - Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels which shall hereafter be made which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Página 227 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Página 390 - For the legislature absolutely or conditionally to forbid public speaking in a highway or public park is no more an infringement of the rights of a member of the public than for the owner of a private house to forbid it in his house.
Página 764 - The police of a state, in a comprehensive sense, embraces its whole system of internal regulation by which the state seeks not only to preserve the public order, and to prevent offenses against the state, but also to establish, for the intercourse of citizens with citizens, those rules of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the uninterrupted enjoyment of his own so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment of rights...
Página 764 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Página 761 - Having thus, in the exercise of undisputed constitutional powers, undertaken to provide a currency for the whole country, it cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation. To this end, Congress has denied the quality of legal tender to foreign coins, and has provided by law against the imposition of counterfeit and base coin on the community. To the same end, Congress may restrain by suitable enactments, the circulation...
Página 794 - The Governor shall have power, and it shall be his duty, except at such time as the Legislature may be in session, to examine into the condition and administration of any public office, and the acts of any public officer, elective or appointed, to remove from office for gross neglect of duty, or for corrupt conduct in office, or any other misfeasance...
Página 757 - Seventh. To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of...
Página 868 - Exchequer; directed to the judge and parties, of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution thereof, upon a suggestion , that either the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.
Página 896 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.