The Albany Law Journal: A Monthly Record of the Law and the Lawyers, 8. köideWeed, Parsons, 1874 |
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... fact , that his reports are wretched to the last degree . We are informed that two of his volumes , 38th and 39th , were purchased by him from Mr. Keyes , who had prepared them as a part of his series of reports of rejected cases , and ...
... fact , that his reports are wretched to the last degree . We are informed that two of his volumes , 38th and 39th , were purchased by him from Mr. Keyes , who had prepared them as a part of his series of reports of rejected cases , and ...
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... fact by the jury , taking into consideration various matters , including , in addition to the cost price and expenses of transit , the reasonable profits of the importer , which are adjusted by what is called the higgling of the market ...
... fact by the jury , taking into consideration various matters , including , in addition to the cost price and expenses of transit , the reasonable profits of the importer , which are adjusted by what is called the higgling of the market ...
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... facts therein stated , unless defendant shall annex to his plea an affidavit denying the fact of having received notice of non - payment ; and if so treated it is not suf- ficient , as the denial must be positive and unequivocal , not ...
... facts therein stated , unless defendant shall annex to his plea an affidavit denying the fact of having received notice of non - payment ; and if so treated it is not suf- ficient , as the denial must be positive and unequivocal , not ...
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... fact made after the commencement of this suit . Plaintiff objected to the testimony as not admissible , under the answer , and on the further ground that such payment was made after the commencement of the action . The justice received ...
... fact made after the commencement of this suit . Plaintiff objected to the testimony as not admissible , under the answer , and on the further ground that such payment was made after the commencement of the action . The justice received ...
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... fact which the legislature had made proper to be proven , viz . , a previous conviction . There is nothing in the statute which requires the prior conviction to be averred in the indictment . It seems to have been inserted since the ...
... fact which the legislature had made proper to be proven , viz . , a previous conviction . There is nothing in the statute which requires the prior conviction to be averred in the indictment . It seems to have been inserted since the ...
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Page 158 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 353 - A child, when adopted, may take the family name of the 'person adopting. After adoption the two shall sustain towards each other the legal relation of parent and child, and have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of that relation.
Page 322 - An officer de facto is one whose acts, though not those of a lawful officer, the law, upon principles of policy and justice, will hold valid so far as they involve the interests of the public and third persons, where the duties of the office were exercised : First.
Page 295 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 63 - Aliens who are citizens or subjects of any government which accords to citizens of the United States the right to prosecute claims against such government in its courts...
Page 225 - Judges shall be the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The first ordinary Judges of the said Court shall be the existing Lords Justices of Appeal in Chancery, the existing salaried Judges of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, appointed under the "Judicial Committee Act, 1871...
Page 341 - The detriment caused by the wrongful conversion of personal property is presumed to be : "First — The value of the property at the time of the conversion, with the interest from that time, or, an amount sufficient to indemnify the party injured for the loss which is the natural, reasonable and proximate result of the wrongful act complained of and which a proper degree of prudence on his part would not have averted; and "Second — A fair compensation for * the time and money properly expended...
Page 32 - Court, Register's Court, and a Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for each county ; in Justices of the Peace, and in such other courts as the Legislature may, from time to time, establish.
Page 312 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 231 - I trust that it has not escaped my anxious recollection for one moment, what it is that the duty of my station calls for from me, namely, to consider myself as stationed here, not to deliver occasional and shifting opinions to serve present purposes of particular national interest, but to administer with indifference that justice which the law of nations holds out, without distinction, to independent States, some happening to be neutral and some to be belligerent.