The Kentucky Law Reporter, Volume 24

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John Cleland Wells, William Pope Duvall Bush, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, Walter G. Chapman, W. J. Chinn, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath
G. A. Lewis, 1903 - Law
 

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Page 469 - No county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the State shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the voters thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 772 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 280 - Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced; and therefore from the beginning of this jurisdiction there was always a limitation to suits in this court.
Page 195 - That no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services...
Page 472 - No county, city, town, taxing district or other municipality shall be authorized or permitted to become indebted, in any manner or for any purpose, to an amount exceeding, in any year, the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the voters thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose; and any Indebtedness contracted in violation of this section shall be void.
Page 772 - Every such action shall be brought by and in the name of the personal representative of such deceased person...
Page 191 - public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be termed the 'policy of the law,' or 'public policy in relation to the administration of the law.
Page 701 - The court at every stage of the proceeding must disregard any error or defect in the proceeding which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties.
Page 772 - ... Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued...
Page 175 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make just compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction.

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