Atlantic Reporter, Volume 99West Publishing Company, 1917 |
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Page 17
... bill of ex- ceptions incorporates a motion in each of the three cases , under the oath of defendant's attorney , reiterating with particularity the facts above recited appropriate to the re- spective cases , and asks that the reports of ...
... bill of ex- ceptions incorporates a motion in each of the three cases , under the oath of defendant's attorney , reiterating with particularity the facts above recited appropriate to the re- spective cases , and asks that the reports of ...
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... bill of ex- ceptions . The court says : " But the law court has not been furnished with a copy of the indictment , and has no means therefore of judging of its sufficiency . " tion was made or exceptions were reserved . | the plaintiffs ...
... bill of ex- ceptions . The court says : " But the law court has not been furnished with a copy of the indictment , and has no means therefore of judging of its sufficiency . " tion was made or exceptions were reserved . | the plaintiffs ...
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... bill be dissolved for want of proper prayed for , and that the bill should be dismiss- and necessary parties thereto , because the paved : ( 1 ) Because said Standard Bitulithic Com- ing contractor whose compensation was to be pany ...
... bill be dissolved for want of proper prayed for , and that the bill should be dismiss- and necessary parties thereto , because the paved : ( 1 ) Because said Standard Bitulithic Com- ing contractor whose compensation was to be pany ...
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... bill in equity to construe wills , etc. , the Supreme Judicial Court cannot entertain a bill to construe a will and trust deed together , where the parties interested in the will , probat- ed in Massachusetts a number of years before ...
... bill in equity to construe wills , etc. , the Supreme Judicial Court cannot entertain a bill to construe a will and trust deed together , where the parties interested in the will , probat- ed in Massachusetts a number of years before ...
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... bill in equity was brought by Frank Boston , Mass . , died testate on May 2 , 1889. B. Wilder and by the widow and children of His will dated May 26 , 1879 , and a codicil the beneficiary Charles W. Wilder , against thereto dated ...
... bill in equity was brought by Frank Boston , Mass . , died testate on May 2 , 1889. B. Wilder and by the widow and children of His will dated May 26 , 1879 , and a codicil the beneficiary Charles W. Wilder , against thereto dated ...
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Page 216 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Page 65 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.
Page 122 - ... a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York...
Page 104 - ... in the absence of fraud in the transaction the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive...
Page 341 - It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity, and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity, until its violation of the constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.
Page 307 - July 1, 1898, which provides that "a discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all his provable debts...
Page 423 - While the presumption is, where one has made a will, that he did not intend to die intestate as to any part of his property...
Page 255 - ... action shall survive to the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs, or against the surviving defendant or defendants, the writ or action shall not be thereby abated: but such death being suggested upon the record, the action shall proceed at the suit of the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs against the surviving defendant or defendants.
Page 7 - We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well-ordered civil society, that every holder of property, however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated, that it shall not be injurious to the equal enjoyment of others having an equal right to the enjoyment of their property, nor injurious to the rights of the community.
Page 202 - That, in order to give effect to the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives, it is necessary that the power of the other House to alter or reject bills passed by this House should be so restricted by Law as to secure that within the limits of a single Parliament the final decision of the Commons shall prevail.