The Southeastern Reporter, Volumen11

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West Publishing Company, 1890

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Página 34 - The general assembly may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages with power to make local improvements by special assessment or by special taxation of contiguous property, or otherwise.
Página 233 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Página 107 - ... if the government refrains from the absolute conversion of real property to the uses of the public it can destroy its value entirely, can inflict irreparable and permanent injury to any extent, can, in effect, subject it to total destruction without making any compensation, because, in the narrowest sense of that word, it is not taken for the public use...
Página 255 - ... from a judgment, order or other proceeding, taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect...
Página 200 - The recognition of its existence even by other States, and the enforcement of its contracts made therein, depend purely upon the comity of those States — a comity which is never extended where the existence of the corporation or the exercise of its powers are prejudicial to their interests or repugnant, to their policy.
Página 119 - ... if a covenant or promise be made for the sole benefit of a person with whom it is not made, or with whom it is made jointly with others, such person may maintain in his own name any action thereon which he might maintain in case it had been made with him only, and the consideration had moved from him to the party making such covenant or promise.
Página 162 - Constitution gives the citizens of each state all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states...
Página 312 - The court may change the place of trial in the following cases : 1. When the county designated for that purpose in the complaint is not the proper county: 2. When there is reason to believe that an impartial trial cannot be had therein: 3. When the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would be promoted by the change.
Página 1 - The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred.
Página 269 - Correctness in the transmission of messages to any point on the lines of this company can be insured by contract in writing, stating agreed amount of risk, and payment of premium thereon at the following rates, in addition to the usual charge for repeated messages, viz : one per cent, for any distance not exceeding 1,000 miles, and two per cent, for any greater distance.

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