Injunctions: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-second Congress, Second Session, January 11,17,18, and 19 and February 8 and 14, 1912

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - Injunctions - 384 pages
Considers legislation to limit and regulate issuance of injunctions and restraining orders.

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Page 366 - Uses violence to or intimidates such person, or his wife or children, or injures his property ; or (2) Persistently follows such other person about from place to place ; or (3) Hides any tools, clothes, or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof ; or (4) Watches or besets the house or other place where such person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be...
Page 189 - THE Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary departments, shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other...
Page 122 - It is not enough that there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate, or in other words, as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.
Page 363 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labour as he wills.
Page 366 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority, — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or, 2.
Page 363 - ... to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working'.
Page 6 - ... unless necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property, or to a property right, of the party making the application, for which injury there is no adequate remedy at law...
Page 55 - An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
Page 41 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press, but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Page 301 - The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered.

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