The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 53Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... performance of which it was not completed , and not as a part of the contract of sale . So the title passed at once ; and if , for any reason , the inventory had not been afterward taken , and the par- ties could not agree on the price ...
... performance of which it was not completed , and not as a part of the contract of sale . So the title passed at once ; and if , for any reason , the inventory had not been afterward taken , and the par- ties could not agree on the price ...
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... 35 . There is another principle of law to be observed which requires of all persons in the exercise of a right , or the performance of duty , that it is done with reasonable regard to Nov. 1893. ] JOHNSON . LOUISVILLE ETC. R. R. Co. 41.
... 35 . There is another principle of law to be observed which requires of all persons in the exercise of a right , or the performance of duty , that it is done with reasonable regard to Nov. 1893. ] JOHNSON . LOUISVILLE ETC. R. R. Co. 41.
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... performance of the duty . It is the fact of notice or knowledge of the danger on the part of the conductor 247 under such circumstances that constitutes the act culpable or willful wrong . If the deceased was intoxicated to the degree ...
... performance of the duty . It is the fact of notice or knowledge of the danger on the part of the conductor 247 under such circumstances that constitutes the act culpable or willful wrong . If the deceased was intoxicated to the degree ...
Page 89
... performance of the work provided for in the contract , are not liable in an action against the contractor for personal injuries resulting from the negligent construction of the building ; and the bond , having no office to perform on ...
... performance of the work provided for in the contract , are not liable in an action against the contractor for personal injuries resulting from the negligent construction of the building ; and the bond , having no office to perform on ...
Page 93
... performance of any duty : Wood on Master and Servant , 535 . The second count charges the defendants with neglect in their failure or omission to erect scaffolds or guards , so as to prevent brick from falling to the ground . On this ...
... performance of any duty : Wood on Master and Servant , 535 . The second count charges the defendants with neglect in their failure or omission to erect scaffolds or guards , so as to prevent brick from falling to the ground . On this ...
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Page 139 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 912 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally — ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself — or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 942 - The proposition which these recognized cases suggest, and which is, therefore, to be deduced from them, is that, whenever one person is by circumstances placed in such a position with regard to another that every one of ordinary sense who did think would at once recognize that if he did not use ordinary care and skill in his own conduct with regard to those circumstances he would cause danger of injury to the person or property of the other, a duty arises to use ordinary care and skill to avoid such...
Page 240 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 167 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 78 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand...
Page 847 - This entire policy shall be void if the insured has concealed or misrepresented, in writing or otherwise, any material fact or circumstance concerning this insurance or the subject thereof...
Page 563 - ... to agree upon the manner, and upon the terms and conditions upon which the same may be used or occupied...
Page 163 - A surety is exonerated: 1. In like manner with a guarantor; 2. To the extent to which he is prejudiced by any act of the creditor which would naturally prove injurious to the remedies of the surety or inconsistent with his rights, or which lessens his security; or, 3.
Page 334 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.