The American Law Register, Volume 21; Volume 30D.B. Canfield & Company, 1882 |
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Page 540 - to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care. This
Page 589 - The common law of England, so far as it is not repugnant to or inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or the Constitution or laws of the state of California, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.
Page 621 - no civil suit shall be brought against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that of which he is an inhabitant, or in which he is found at the time of serving the writ,
Page 543 - that one who, for his own purposes, brings upon his land, and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at
Page 26 - rights are infringed, where fundamental principles are overthrown, where the general system of the laws is departed from, the legislative intention must be expressed with irresistible clearness to induce a court of justice to suppose a design to effect such objects." Our conclusion is that as the marriage in question was valid in Connecticut, the appellant,
Page 651 - courts of the United States the parties may plead and manage their own causes personally or by the assistance of such counsel or attorneys at law as by the rules of the said courts respectively shall be permitted to manage and conduct causes therein :
Page 540 - defendant, was injured by bags of sugar falling from a crane by which they were lowered to the ground. The court said there must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is
Page 225 - that a prior lien gives a prior claim which is entitled to prior satisfaction out of the subject it binds, unless the lien be intrinsically defective, or be displaced by some act of the party holding it, which shall postpone him, in a court of law or equity, to
Page 589 - Elizabeth, and the ninth chapter of 37 Henry VIII., and which are of a general nature and not local to that kingdom, shall be the rule of decision, and shall be considered as of full force until repealed by legislative authority.
Page 208 - The ideas of validity and remedy are inseparable, and both are parts of the obligation which is guaranteed by the Constitution. The obligation of a contract is the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement.