Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 186

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Page 450 - A person, with whom or in whose name, a contract is made for the benefit of another, is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page v - The concurrence of four justices present at the argument shall be necessary to pronounce a judgment in bank ; but if four justices, so present, do not concur in a judgment, then all the justices qualified to sit in the cause shall hear the argument ; but to render a judgment a concurrence of four judges shall be necessary.
Page 263 - State, or any interest therein, or income therefrom, which shall be transferred by deed, grant, sale, or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor or bargainer, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after such death...
Page 257 - In all other cases questions of entire or partial dependency shall be determined in accordance with the fact, as the fact may be at the time of the injury...
Page 188 - Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special laws; but the Legislature, by general laws, shall provide for the incorporation, organization, and classification, in proportion to population, of cities and towns, which laws may be altered, amended, or repealed.
Page 311 - An issue of fact arises: 1. Upon a material allegation in the complaint controverted by the answer; and, 2. Upon new matter in the answer, except an issue of law is joined thereon.
Page 327 - No estate, real or personal, shall be bequeathed or devised to any charitable or benevolent society or corporation, or to any person or persons in trust for charitable uses, except the same be done by will duly executed at least thirty days before the decease of the testator...
Page 191 - ... such as may belong to the United States, this State, or to any county or municipal corporation within this State, shall be exempt from taxation.
Page 546 - All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.
Page 59 - ... where from the nature of the contract it appears that the parties must from the beginning have known that it could not be fulfilled unless when the time for the...

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