Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volumen262

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Página 440 - Judicial power is never exercised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the judge ; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature, or, in other words, to the will of the law.
Página 181 - A child, when adopted, may take the family name of the 'person adopting. After adoption the two shall sustain towards each other the legal relation of parent and child, and have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of that relation.
Página 160 - This Company shall not be liable for a greater proportion of any loss than the amount hereby insured shall bear to the whole insurance covering the property against the peril involved, whether collectible or not.
Página 67 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Página 410 - ... that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to matters therein stated to be alleged upon information and belief, and that as to those matters he believes it to be true.
Página 449 - So deeply did the iniquities of the ancient system impress themselves upon the minds of the American colonists that the States, with one accord, made a denial of the right to question an accused person a part of their fundamental law, so that a maxim, which in England was a mere rule of evidence, became clothed in this country with the impregnability of a constitutional enactment.
Página 224 - HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of...
Página 586 - It is laid down as a general rule, that amendments proposed at the second reading shall be twice read, and those proposed at the third reading thrice read ; as also all amendments from the other house. Town. col. 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. It is with great and almost invincible reluctance, that amendments are admitted at this reading, which occasion erasures or interlineations. Sometimes a proviso has been cut off from a bill; sometimes erased.
Página 179 - ... a decree shall be made, setting forth the facts and ordering that from the date of the decree the child shall, to all legal intents and purposes, be the child of the petitioner or petitioners, and may decree that the name of the child be changed according to the prayer of the petition.
Página 403 - That the legislation supersedes all the regulations and policies of a particular state upon the same subject results from Its general character. It embraces the subject of the liability of the carrier under a bill of lading which he must Issue, and limits his power to exempt himself by rule, regulation, or contract.

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