A Treatise on the Law of the Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Infancy, and Master and ServantLittle, Brown, 1874 - 719 pages |
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... fact , nations themselves are often regarded as so many families ; and the very name * 9 which is * placed at the head of this work , the legislator constantly applies to the public concerns of his own country as contrasted with those ...
... fact , nations themselves are often regarded as so many families ; and the very name * 9 which is * placed at the head of this work , the legislator constantly applies to the public concerns of his own country as contrasted with those ...
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... fact that the equity tribunals have gradually moulded the unwritten law of England so as to secure like results . Second . That the courts of England and the American States ( with scarcely an important exception ) agree in regarding ...
... fact that the equity tribunals have gradually moulded the unwritten law of England so as to secure like results . Second . That the courts of England and the American States ( with scarcely an important exception ) agree in regarding ...
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... fact is relieved of its penal consequences as concerns parties not guilty of polygamy in intention ; but a certain period must elapse usually seven years before death can be presumed from continuous absence alone . Such was one of the ...
... fact is relieved of its penal consequences as concerns parties not guilty of polygamy in intention ; but a certain period must elapse usually seven years before death can be presumed from continuous absence alone . Such was one of the ...
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... fact was pointed out many years ago by one of our best writers on political ethics.1 Under this same head may be considered a disqualification introduced into some parts of this country by legislative enactments ; namely , the ...
... fact was pointed out many years ago by one of our best writers on political ethics.1 Under this same head may be considered a disqualification introduced into some parts of this country by legislative enactments ; namely , the ...
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... fact the 1 1 Bish . Mar. & Div . 5th ed . §§ 214 , 215 ; 1 Burge Col. & For . Laws , 137 ; 1 Fras . Dom . Rel . 229 ;. Scott v . Shufeldt , 5 Paige , 43 ; Leavitt v . Leavitt , 13 Mich . 452 ; Hampstead v . Plaistow , 49 N. H. 84 . 2 ...
... fact the 1 1 Bish . Mar. & Div . 5th ed . §§ 214 , 215 ; 1 Burge Col. & For . Laws , 137 ; 1 Fras . Dom . Rel . 229 ;. Scott v . Shufeldt , 5 Paige , 43 ; Leavitt v . Leavitt , 13 Mich . 452 ; Hampstead v . Plaistow , 49 N. H. 84 . 2 ...
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Page 612 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, whether there shall or shall not be any new consideration for such promise or ratification after full age.
Page 16 - All property owned by the husband before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, bequest, devise, or descent, with the rents, issues, and profits thereof, is his separate property.
Page 389 - For to those who gave us existence we naturally owe subjection and obedience during our minority, and honor and reverence ever after; they who protected the weakness of our infancy are entitled to our protection in the infirmity of their age ; they who by sustenance and education have enabled their offspring to prosper, ought in return to be supported by that offspring, in case they stand in need of assistance.
Page 150 - That no descent cast, discontinuance, or warranty which may happen or be made after the said Thirty-first day of December, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three shall toll or defeat any right of entry or action for the recovery of land.
Page 678 - If it be done in the course of his employment, the master is liable ; and it makes no difference that the master did not authorize, or even know of the servant's act or neglect, or even if he disapproved or forbade it,. he is equally liable, if the act be done in the course of his servant's employment.
Page 219 - ... and the same shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, nor be liable for his debts.
Page 343 - For the policy of our laws, which are ever watchful to promote industry, did not mean to compel a father to maintain his idle and lazy children in ease and indolence: but thought it unjust to oblige the parent against his will to provide them with superfluities, and other indulgences of fortune; imagining they might trust to the impulse of nature, if the children were deserving of such favours.
Page 689 - I do not think the liability or nonliability of the master to his workmen, can depend upon the question whether the author of the accident is not, or is, in any technical sense the fellow-workman, or collaborateur of the sufferer.
Page 51 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 323 - ... and such property may be disposed of by her in all respects as a feme sole, and on her decease the same shall, in case she shall die intestate, go as the same would have gone if her husband had been then dead...