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, 65. köide |
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... held to be libellous , then malicious intent was implied as a matter of law , and need not be proved . The respondent was thus put to the trouble and expense of moving in arrest of judgment , or suing out a writ of error , if he thought ...
... held to be libellous , then malicious intent was implied as a matter of law , and need not be proved . The respondent was thus put to the trouble and expense of moving in arrest of judgment , or suing out a writ of error , if he thought ...
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... held that it is not error to charge the jury that it is their duty to take the law from the court . See La . & Ga . cases cited supra ; 1 Crim . L. Mag . 52 . Under a provision of the Constitution of Maryland , the language of which was ...
... held that it is not error to charge the jury that it is their duty to take the law from the court . See La . & Ga . cases cited supra ; 1 Crim . L. Mag . 52 . Under a provision of the Constitution of Maryland , the language of which was ...
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... held the law . to be . Art . 6 of the Constitution of the United States makes it , and all laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof , the supreme law of the land , and declares that judges in every State shall be bound thereby ...
... held the law . to be . Art . 6 of the Constitution of the United States makes it , and all laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof , the supreme law of the land , and declares that judges in every State shall be bound thereby ...
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... Held , that this was an accord and satisfaction , and that the plaintiff could not recover the amount of the illegal freight charges , pro- vided the defendant made its above claims in good faith . 2 . The plaintiff's claim was for the ...
... Held , that this was an accord and satisfaction , and that the plaintiff could not recover the amount of the illegal freight charges , pro- vided the defendant made its above claims in good faith . 2 . The plaintiff's claim was for the ...
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... held to operate prospectively , and not retrospectively , unless it appears that they were designed to have the latter operation . When it is sought to have such operation given to a statute to the impairment of an existing right , or ...
... held to operate prospectively , and not retrospectively , unless it appears that they were designed to have the latter operation . When it is sought to have such operation given to a statute to the impairment of an existing right , or ...
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Page 216 - But it is generally held, that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Page 425 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
Page 23 - Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
Page 54 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action.
Page 16 - The words, That the jury did acquit, against the direction of the court, in matter of law, literally taken, and de piano, are insignificant and not intelligible, for no issue can be joined of matter in law, no jury can be charged with the trial of matter in law barely, no evidence ever was, or can be given to a jury of what is law, or not ; nor no such...
Page 424 - That when any issue in fact, proper for the cognizance of a jury is joined in a court of law, the parties have a right to trial by jury, which ought to be held sacred.
Page 54 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Page 258 - Kirkpatrick, 2 -Minn. 210 (Gil. 171), where the complaint alleged that "the defendants are justly indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of, etc., on account of goods, wares, and merchandise sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant at the special instance and request...
Page 22 - ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
Page 583 - ... the said defendant, by leave of the court here for this purpose first had and obtained, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, says that the said plaintiff ought not to have or maintain his aforesaid action thereof against...