American Law Reports Annotated, Volume 48Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1927 |
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Page 266 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 201 - ... of said persons, whether the other be living or not; and the receipt or acquittance of the person so paid shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge to the bank for any payment so made.
Page 660 - The shareholders of every national banking association shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 322 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 371 - If a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money or other act is to be performed, an action may be brought for the money, or for not doing such other act, before performance ; for it appears that the party relied upon his remedy, and did not intend to make the performance a condition precedent : and so it is where no time is fixed for the performance of that which...
Page 328 - But it is generally held, that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Page 312 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally (ie, according to the usual course of things) from such breach of contract itself...
Page 572 - A libel is the malicious defamation of a person, made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation, or effigy tending to provoke him to wrath, or expose' him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or to deprive him of the benefits of public confidence and social intercourse...
Page 271 - Moral turpitude is an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellow men or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man ;" everything "done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, and good morals.
Page 525 - Seventh. To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of...