Michigan Nisi Prius Cases Decided by the State and Federal Courts in Michigan: To which are Added Brief Biographical Sketches of the Judges of Michigan, Past and Present, Law Anecdotes and Reminiscences ; Also Law Miscellanies

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Charles Boynton Howell
Richmond, Backus & Company, 1884 - 384 páginas

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Página 149 - Administration of the estate of a person dying intestate, shall be granted to some one or more of the persons hereinafter mentioned, and they shall be respectively entitled to the same, in the following order.
Página 253 - I'll swear you are no sailor, Blue jacket or no, Brass buttons or no, sailor, Anchor and crown or no! Sure his ship was the Jolly Briton ' — ' Speak low, woman, speak low ! ' ' And why should I speak low, sailor, About my own boy John? If I was loud as I am proud I'd sing him over the town! Why should I speak low, sailor ? '
Página 253 - John? If I was loud as I am proud I'd sing him over the town, Why should I speak low, sailor ?" "That good ship went down." "How's my boy, my boy ? What care I for the ship, sailor? I was never aboard her. Be she afloat or be she aground, Sinking or swimming, I'll be bound Her owners can afford her ! I say, How's my John?" "Every man on board went down, Every man aboard her.
Página 140 - And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which...
Página 139 - And behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Página 38 - In all other respects, the laws of the State in which the court is held shall be the rules of decision as to the competency of witnesses in the courts 100] of the United States in trials at common law and in equity and admiralty.
Página 252 - What's your boy's name, good wife, And in what good ship sailed he?" "My boy John, He that went to sea — What care I for the ship, sailor? My boy's my boy to me. " You come back from sea, And not know my John? I might as well have asked some landsman Yonder down in the town. There's not an ass in all the parish But he knows my John.
Página 164 - From the day on which the emancipation of our literature was accomplished, the purification of our literature began. That purification was effected, not by the intervention of senates or magistrates, but by the opinion of the great body of educated Englishmen, before •whom good and evil were set, and who were left free to make their choice. During a hundred and sixty years the liberty of...
Página 316 - In 1758 he was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of the law in Braintree.
Página 38 - Is a party to or interested in the issue tried: provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which Judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to nny transaction with, or statement by, the testator, Intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party or required to testify thereto by the court.

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