The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Հատոր 6,Հատոր 24Freeman & Bolles, 1843 |
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... principle , in the maxim , as it originally stood , either in the common or civil law . The assent of two or more minds is necessary to constitute a contract ; and there is great force in the argument of serjeant Catline , in Plowden ...
... principle , in the maxim , as it originally stood , either in the common or civil law . The assent of two or more minds is necessary to constitute a contract ; and there is great force in the argument of serjeant Catline , in Plowden ...
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... principle , exceptions or reservations in a deed shall be taken most favorably to the grantee , and if not set down or described with certainty , the grantee shall have the benefit that may arise from such defect . So where a deed may ...
... principle , exceptions or reservations in a deed shall be taken most favorably to the grantee , and if not set down or described with certainty , the grantee shall have the benefit that may arise from such defect . So where a deed may ...
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... principle of this eighth rule is clearly applicable . But after all it is perhaps rather a rule of law and equity , than of construction of contracts , by which the lessee's option is secured to him . 4 In matters of election , in ...
... principle of this eighth rule is clearly applicable . But after all it is perhaps rather a rule of law and equity , than of construction of contracts , by which the lessee's option is secured to him . 4 In matters of election , in ...
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... principle - if by the contract an election is given , or reserved , of two several things , he who is the first agent , and who ought to do the first act , shall have the election . ' And this will be the promisor or promisee , ac ...
... principle - if by the contract an election is given , or reserved , of two several things , he who is the first agent , and who ought to do the first act , shall have the election . ' And this will be the promisor or promisee , ac ...
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... principles , where it would be impossible to carry into effect the statu- tory regulation on one subject , and the inconsistent common law doctrine on the other . If in Massachusetts an estate is devised to a man for life and after his ...
... principles , where it would be impossible to carry into effect the statu- tory regulation on one subject , and the inconsistent common law doctrine on the other . If in Massachusetts an estate is devised to a man for life and after his ...
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Էջ 454 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Էջ 441 - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Էջ 259 - The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and with indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences in cases affecting personal rights become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more industrious and less informed part of the community.
Էջ 268 - This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the trustees, and the crown (to whose rights and obligations New Hampshire succeeds) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition of property. It is a contract on the faith of which real and personal estate has been conveyed to the corporation.
Էջ 458 - ... a party has no right to cross-examine any witness except as to facts and circumstances connected with the matters stated In his direct examination. If he wishes to -examine him as to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent progress of the cause.
Էջ 26 - Till subdued by age and illness, his conversation was more brilliant and instructive than that of any human being I ever had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction, rather than that dreadful engine of colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected.
Էջ 31 - Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, *od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.
Էջ 167 - Benjamin, that a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future day is valid, even though the seller has not the goods nor any other means of getting them than to go into the market and buy them...
Էջ 446 - The mode of conducting trials, the order of introducing evidence, and the times when it is to be introduced, are, properly, matters belonging to the practice of the Circuit Courts, with which this Court ought not to interfere...
Էջ 201 - ... it is too late to object to the jurisdiction of the Court, on the ground that the plaintiff has an adequate remedy at law, which he might have pursued.