The Albany Law Journal: A Monthly Record of the Law and the Lawyers, 8. köideWeed, Parsons, 1874 |
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... trial of Miss Anthony , directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty . One of these papers asks : " Could not twelve honest , intelligent jurymen be trusted ? " Very likely , provided there were " twelve honest , intelligent jury ...
... trial of Miss Anthony , directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty . One of these papers asks : " Could not twelve honest , intelligent jurymen be trusted ? " Very likely , provided there were " twelve honest , intelligent jury ...
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... trial , the defendant prevailed and judg- ment was affirmed in 1 Robb . 246 , and 26 How . Pr . 158 , and this decision was modified by the court of appeals . This decision is misreported in 1 Keyes , 222 . Wilcox v . Green , 23 Barb ...
... trial , the defendant prevailed and judg- ment was affirmed in 1 Robb . 246 , and 26 How . Pr . 158 , and this decision was modified by the court of appeals . This decision is misreported in 1 Keyes , 222 . Wilcox v . Green , 23 Barb ...
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... trial is for such party to request the court to charge that such evidence is not to be considered by them , and in case of refusal , he will have a good exception . Ib . ASSIGNMENT FOR BENEFIT OF CREDITORS . Actions to set aside an ...
... trial is for such party to request the court to charge that such evidence is not to be considered by them , and in case of refusal , he will have a good exception . Ib . ASSIGNMENT FOR BENEFIT OF CREDITORS . Actions to set aside an ...
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... trial , plaintiff proved a warranty and a breach thereof , but gave no evidence tending to show fraud . Held , that the gravamen of the action was fraud and not a breach of the warranty , and that plaintiff could not recover upon proof ...
... trial , plaintiff proved a warranty and a breach thereof , but gave no evidence tending to show fraud . Held , that the gravamen of the action was fraud and not a breach of the warranty , and that plaintiff could not recover upon proof ...
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... trial in the county court , what had been the highest price of the grain between the time of the conversion and the trial . The highest price up to the last trial was the proper measure of damages . Ib . GENERAL TERM ABSTRACT . SUPREME ...
... trial in the county court , what had been the highest price of the grain between the time of the conversion and the trial . The highest price up to the last trial was the proper measure of damages . Ib . GENERAL TERM ABSTRACT . SUPREME ...
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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.