American and English Annotated Cases: Containing the Important Cases Selected from the Current American, Canadian, and English Reports, Thoroughly Annotated ... V. 1 [1901]-40 [1916B] 1916C-1918E.Edward Thompson Company, 1916 - Law |
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... charge that he was laboring under an insane delusion that certain of his nieces and neph- ews were his enemies . It will be observed that he did not charge any of his relatives with being guilty of any of these outrages themselves , but ...
... charge that he was laboring under an insane delusion that certain of his nieces and neph- ews were his enemies . It will be observed that he did not charge any of his relatives with being guilty of any of these outrages themselves , but ...
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... charged with the lar- ceny of a skiff , it is competent for him to show that he took the skiff for the purpose of escaping arrest on another charge , and that he took along a friend to return the skiff to its owner , and it was so ...
... charged with the lar- ceny of a skiff , it is competent for him to show that he took the skiff for the purpose of escaping arrest on another charge , and that he took along a friend to return the skiff to its owner , and it was so ...
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... charge of vio- lating section 410 of the Penal Code . There- upon the appellant Parisi in accordance with the provisions of section 568 of the Code of Criminal Procedure executed an undertaking whereby he undertook that said Sullivano ...
... charge of vio- lating section 410 of the Penal Code . There- upon the appellant Parisi in accordance with the provisions of section 568 of the Code of Criminal Procedure executed an undertaking whereby he undertook that said Sullivano ...
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... charge of a camp of convicts working upon the roads of Wake County , and the defendant Johnson was a guard at said camp . They were charged with assaulting , beating , and wounding one Dan Gallagher , a convict under their charge and ...
... charge of a camp of convicts working upon the roads of Wake County , and the defendant Johnson was a guard at said camp . They were charged with assaulting , beating , and wounding one Dan Gallagher , a convict under their charge and ...
Page 128
... charge ; yet thousands were committed to jail on legal fictions and re- tained indefinitely for costs far in excess of the original debt . The impecunious were locked up and deprived of all hope of earning means to obtain enlargement ...
... charge ; yet thousands were committed to jail on legal fictions and re- tained indefinitely for costs far in excess of the original debt . The impecunious were locked up and deprived of all hope of earning means to obtain enlargement ...
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Page 341 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment, or that some note or memorandum in writing of the said bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged by such contract, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized.
Page 122 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 341 - ... (2) The provisions of this section apply to every such contract, notwithstanding that the goods may be intended to be delivered at some future time, or may not at the time of such contract be actually made, procured, or provided, or fit or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery...
Page 210 - All courts shall be open; and every man, for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial, or delay.
Page 218 - Commerce among the States consists of intercourse and traffic between their citizens, and includes the transportation of persons and property, and the navigation of public waters for that purpose, as well as the purchase, sale and exchange of commodities.
Page 218 - Commerce with foreign countries, and among the States, strictly considered, consists in intercourse and traffic, including in these terms navigation, and the transportation and transit of persons and property, as well as the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities.
Page 442 - If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
Page 210 - No act hereafter passed shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be so expressed...
Page 298 - In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted...
Page 210 - No tax shall be levied, except in pursuance of law; and every law imposing a tax, shall state, distinctly, the object of the same, to which only, it shall be applied.