The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volumen56Bancroft-Whitney, 1887 |
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... alleged nuisance , consisting in a levee or earthen embankment erected by the defendants , Far- ris & McCurdy , upon their own lands , in such manner as to cause the waters of a large creek to overflow the lands of the complain- ant ...
... alleged nuisance , consisting in a levee or earthen embankment erected by the defendants , Far- ris & McCurdy , upon their own lands , in such manner as to cause the waters of a large creek to overflow the lands of the complain- ant ...
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... alleged nuisance . But it is erroneous in fail- ing to determine the question of damages , which could have been done either by the chancellor himself , or by reference to the regis- ter for report , or else it could have been submitted ...
... alleged nuisance . But it is erroneous in fail- ing to determine the question of damages , which could have been done either by the chancellor himself , or by reference to the regis- ter for report , or else it could have been submitted ...
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... alleged loss of them , it is not meant that profits are not recoverable merely because they are such , nor because profits are necessarily speculative , contingent and too uncertain to be proved ; but they are rejected when they are so ...
... alleged loss of them , it is not meant that profits are not recoverable merely because they are such , nor because profits are necessarily speculative , contingent and too uncertain to be proved ; but they are rejected when they are so ...
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... alleged commission of the offense and the trial in the Circuit Court , the prisoner and his wife , Celia Owen , were divorced , the one from the other . She was offered as a witness against defendant ; her competency was objected to ...
... alleged commission of the offense and the trial in the Circuit Court , the prisoner and his wife , Celia Owen , were divorced , the one from the other . She was offered as a witness against defendant ; her competency was objected to ...
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... alleged burglary , and afterward , all during the time they were living together as husband and wife . Some of her statements relate to conduct of his , which would not likely have come to her knowledge in its details , if they had not ...
... alleged burglary , and afterward , all during the time they were living together as husband and wife . Some of her statements relate to conduct of his , which would not likely have come to her knowledge in its details , if they had not ...
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Página 364 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página 881 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Página 464 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Página 594 - person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Página 716 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Página 95 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Página 54 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be 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...
Página 121 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission and delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Página 54 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Página 527 - Provided, that in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead...