Philadelphia Reports, Band 12

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J.M.P. Wallace, 1882
"Included cases from the Supreme and inferior courts of Philadelphia and from the United States courts."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
 

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Seite 467 - Pennsylvania, which constitutional provision provides that 'the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law . . . regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts...
Seite 555 - That all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Seite 285 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Seite 342 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Seite 21 - Fail-ing to obey the order of the court, a rule to show cause why an attachment should not issue against her for contempt was obtained, to which she has made answer.
Seite 560 - For example, if under the influence of his delusion he supposes another man to be in the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment.
Seite 579 - ... on the trial of any oi' the offences in this section mentioned it shall not be necessary to prove an intent on the part of the defendant to defraud any particular person, but it shall be sufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged with an intent to defraud.
Seite 560 - ... must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Seite 495 - Provided always, that no such execution shall issue against any shareholder except upon an order of the Court in which the action, suit, or other proceeding shall have been brought or instituted, made upon motion in open court after sufficient notice in writing to the persons sought to be charged ; and upon such motion such Court may order execution to issue accordingly...
Seite 166 - Provided, that judgment shall not be rendered against the wife in such joint action, unless it shall have been proved that the debt sued for in such action was contracted by the wife or [held by the Supreme Court to mean ' and'] incurred for articles necessary for the support of the family of the said husband and wife.

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