Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Knjiga 61Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1903 |
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Stran 220 - Where an overdue bill is negotiated, it can only be negotiated subject to any defect of title affecting it at its maturity, and thenceforward no person who takes it can acquire or give a better title than that which the person from whom he took it had.
Stran 390 - ... any fact which clearly proves it to be against conscience to execute a judgment, and of which the injured party could not have availed himself in a court of law or Of which he might have availed himself at law but was prevented by fraud or accident, unmixed with any fault or See 17 OTTO. i negligence in himself or his agents, will justify ; an application to a court of chancery.
Stran 122 - Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
Stran 258 - That no will or codicil, or any part thereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner herein-before required, and showing an intention to revive the same...
Stran 124 - The theory of our governments, State and National, is opposed to the deposit of unlimited power anywhere. The executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches of these governments are all of limited and denned powers.
Stran 233 - Act, as often stated by this court, is that " whenever a court of law is competent to take cognizance of a right, and has power to proceed to a judgment which affords a plain, adequate and complete remedy, without the aid of a court of equity, the plaintiff must proceed at law, because the defendant has a constitutional right to a trial by jury.
Stran 242 - The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had. All the testimony must be produced anew, and the former verdict cannot be used or referred to, either in evidence or in argument, or be pleaded in bar of any conviction which might have been had under the indictment.
Stran 167 - Every estate granted or devised to two or more persons in their own right shall be a tenancy in common, unless expressly declared to be in joint tenancy ; but every estate, vested in executors or trustees as such, shall be held by them in joint tenancy.
Stran 364 - After the expiration of one year from the death of a party, against whom a final judgment for a sum of money...
Stran 222 - A plain and concise statement of the facts, constituting each cause of action, without unnecessary repetition.