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, 26. köide |
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Page 257 - Nowlen, that if any implication is to be indulged from the delivery of the goods under the general notice, it is as strong that the owner intended to insist upon his rights, and the duties of the carrier, as it is that he assented to their qualification.
Page 366 - * • one may find any number of cases In the legislation of Congress where statutes have been made dependent upon the shifting character of the revenue laws, or the navigation laws, or commercial rules, edicts, or restrictions of other countries.
Page 336 - It appears to me that an innkeeper's liability very closely resembles that of a carrier. He is prima facie liable for any loss not occasioned by the act of God or the king's enemies ; although he may be exonerated where the guest chooses to have his goods under his own care.
Page 20 - ... and being so liable, he the said defendant, in consideration thereof, afterwards, to wit, on the...
Page 358 - That in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation...
Page 809 - ... in such portions and at such time or times as the directors of said company may, agreeably to their act of incorporation, require.
Page 365 - If the operation of a law may fairly be made to depend upon a future contingency, then, in my apprehension, it makes no essential difference what is the nature of the contingency, so it be an equal and fair one, a moral and legal one, not opposed to sound policy, and so far connected with the object and purpose of the statute as not to be a mere idle and arbitrary one.
Page 20 - Ostler, deceased, and when the said bill of exchange became due and payable, according to the tenor and effect thereof, to wit, on the...
Page 190 - If the contract grows immediately out of, or is connected with an illegal or immoral act, a court of justice will not enforce it.
Page 82 - It enacted that the rents, issues, and profits of the real estate of any married woman, and the interest of her husband in her right in any real estate, which belonged to her before marriage, or which she may have acquired by gift, grant, devise or inheritance during coverture, shall, during coverture, be exempt from attachment or levy of execution for the sole debts of her husband, . . . provided this act shall not affect any attachment or levy of execution already made.