Atlantic Reporter, Volumen36

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West Publishing Company, 1897

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Página 289 - Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate.
Página 102 - Judgment according as the very Right of the Cause and Matter in Law shall appear unto them...
Página 38 - Judicial power, as contradistinguished from the power of the laws, has no existence. Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law ; and when that is discerned, it is the duty of the court to follow it.
Página 375 - But when the requisitions prescribed are intended for the protection of the citizen, and to prevent a sacrifice of his property, and by a disregard of which his rights might be and generally would be injuriously affected, they are not directory but mandatory.
Página 274 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Página 282 - under all the evidence in the case the verdict must be for the defendant.
Página 160 - American experience table of mortality with interest at the rate of three and one-half per cent per annum...
Página 356 - Industry," when used in this connection, to be "any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially one which employs much labor and capital, and Is a distinct branch of trade, as the sugar Industry, the iron industry, the cotton Industry.
Página 322 - That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures...
Página 101 - ... whereby and by force of the statute in such case made and provided an action hath accrued to the plaintiff...

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