Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Volumen65

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Edward O. Jenkins, 1882

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Página 318 - Maryland, in an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant to recover certain lands lying in that State.
Página 372 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Página 372 - ... A railroad company shall be liable for any damage done to persons, stock or other property, by the running of the locomotives, or cars, or other machinery of such company, or for damage done by any person in the...
Página 312 - ... equity of redemption of the said party of the first part, his heirs, executors, administrators or...
Página 669 - A partnership is a contract of two or more competent persons, to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the...
Página 372 - No person shall recover damages from a railroad company for injury to himself or his property where the same is don«' by his consent, or is caused by his own negligence.
Página 434 - no man," says the learned judge Foster, " under the protection of the law is to be the avenger of his own wrongs. If they are of such a nature for which the laws of society will give him an adequate remedy, thither he ought to resort. But be they of what nature soever, he ought to bear his lot with patience, and remember that vengeance belongeth to the Most High.
Página 408 - every indictment or accusation of the grand jury shall be deemed sufficiently technical and correct which states the offense in the terms and language of the statutes creating the offense, or so plainly that the nature of the offense may be easily understood by the jury.
Página 708 - Tennessee deliberately adjudge, that " if a man, though in no great danger of serious bodily harm, through fear, alarm, or cowardice, kill another, under the impression that great bodily injury is about to be inflicted on him, it is neither manslaughter nor murder, but self-defense.
Página 53 - A widow, or if no widow", a child or children, may recover for the homicide of the husband or parent...

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