The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869, Band 33Bancroft-Whitney, 1886 |
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... charge to the jury and the directions given to them on the trial of this cause at nisi prius , are considered by the court in bank correct , excepting that part wherein the jury were advised that there was no evidence whatever given to ...
... charge to the jury and the directions given to them on the trial of this cause at nisi prius , are considered by the court in bank correct , excepting that part wherein the jury were advised that there was no evidence whatever given to ...
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... charge in relation to the want of evidence as to this point , or to have disregarded it alto- gether ; most likely the latter . If so , they were clearly wrong , because they were to receive the law from the court ; and the court having ...
... charge in relation to the want of evidence as to this point , or to have disregarded it alto- gether ; most likely the latter . If so , they were clearly wrong , because they were to receive the law from the court ; and the court having ...
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... charge was erroneous upon the second objection ; but still , as the point involved in the first , has been made by the defendant's counsel , and argued on both sides , it may not be improper , on account of its importance , as it ...
... charge was erroneous upon the second objection ; but still , as the point involved in the first , has been made by the defendant's counsel , and argued on both sides , it may not be improper , on account of its importance , as it ...
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... charge the indorsers thereof . In taking these measures it must generally employ agents to act for it ; and whether the agent be a notary public or some other person , the question is whether the bank is answerable for any negligence on ...
... charge the indorsers thereof . In taking these measures it must generally employ agents to act for it ; and whether the agent be a notary public or some other person , the question is whether the bank is answerable for any negligence on ...
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... charge are not legiti- mate subjects of revision here , the direction that there was evi- dence from which the jury might infer the death to have been at a time short of the period of legal presumption , was erroneous . Judgment ...
... charge are not legiti- mate subjects of revision here , the direction that there was evi- dence from which the jury might infer the death to have been at a time short of the period of legal presumption , was erroneous . Judgment ...
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Seite 492 - Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony.
Seite 350 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties he is authorized to appoint certain officers who act by his authority and in conformity with his orders.
Seite 57 - ... [B]ut when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Seite 290 - Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.
Seite 363 - But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that the individual who considers himself injured, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy.
Seite 334 - Mississippi, and the navigable waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free as well to the inhabitants of said State, as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the said State of Iowa.
Seite 528 - Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty...
Seite 334 - And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to the convention of the eastern State of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States : First.
Seite 738 - Courts of Equity decree the specific performance of contracts, not upon any distinction between realty and personalty, but because damages at law may not, in the particular case, afford a complete remedy.
Seite 363 - It is not by the office of the person to whom the writ is directed, but the nature of the thing to be done, that the propriety or impropriety of issuing a mandamus is to be determined.