Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to a Statute Law of the State, 94. köideJ. Spooner, 1922 |
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... common law damages for mental suffering are allowed where it is the natural and proximate result of a physical injury , sus- tained through the negligent act of the defendant , in actions for breach of contract of marriage , and in ...
... common law damages for mental suffering are allowed where it is the natural and proximate result of a physical injury , sus- tained through the negligent act of the defendant , in actions for breach of contract of marriage , and in ...
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... common law ; the decisions to this effect resting upon the elementary principle that mere mental pain and anxiety are too vague for legal redress where no injury is done to person , property , health , or reputa- tion . Southern Express ...
... common law ; the decisions to this effect resting upon the elementary principle that mere mental pain and anxiety are too vague for legal redress where no injury is done to person , property , health , or reputa- tion . Southern Express ...
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... common law . While it is the duty of courts to extend the rules of the common law to new con- ditions as they arise , if such conditions cannot properly be met by the application of existing laws , relief must come through the ...
... common law . While it is the duty of courts to extend the rules of the common law to new con- ditions as they arise , if such conditions cannot properly be met by the application of existing laws , relief must come through the ...
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... common - law rule . They go no further than to hold that damages may be recovered by those entitled to the possession of a dead body for burial for mental anguish caused by its wilful or wanton mutilation . In the other class of cases ...
... common - law rule . They go no further than to hold that damages may be recovered by those entitled to the possession of a dead body for burial for mental anguish caused by its wilful or wanton mutilation . In the other class of cases ...
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... common law , if we were at liberty to do so . A valuable review of the cases involving rights in dead bodies will be found in a recent article entitled , " Right of Sepulture , " 53 Am . Law Rev. 359-378 . For a more extended statement ...
... common law , if we were at liberty to do so . A valuable review of the cases involving rights in dead bodies will be found in a recent article entitled , " Right of Sepulture , " 53 Am . Law Rev. 359-378 . For a more extended statement ...
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Page 506 - The case, being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or mischievous, or repugnant to the general spirit of the instrument as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception.
Page 497 - It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves, as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible ; and therefore some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of Parliament.
Page 10 - In argument, however, it has been contended, that if a law passed by a state, in the exercise of its acknowledged sovereignty, comes into conflict with a law passed by congress in pursuance of the constitution, they affect the subject and each other like equal opposing powers.
Page 252 - At the close of all the evidence, the defendant moved for a directed verdict...
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Page 290 - ... for the trial of all causes proper for their cognizance, and justice shall be therein impartially administered without corruption, or unnecessary delay. The judges of the supreme court shall be justices of the peace throughout the state, and the several judges of the county courts in their respective counties, by virtue of their office, except in the trial of such causes as may be appealed to the county court.