Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases, Volumen2West Publishing Company, 1904 - 7839 páginas |
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... person against whom there may be a cause of action limitations shall cease to run for 12 months , applies as well to real as to personal actions . Morgan v . Baker ( Tex . ) 40 S. W. 27 , 29 . Remedy distinguished . action ' can mean no ...
... person against whom there may be a cause of action limitations shall cease to run for 12 months , applies as well to real as to personal actions . Morgan v . Baker ( Tex . ) 40 S. W. 27 , 29 . Remedy distinguished . action ' can mean no ...
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... person to pay another person therein named , or to his order , or to bearer , a speci- fied sum of money absolutely and at all events . First Nat . Bank v . Greenville Nat . Bank , 19 S. W. 334 , 84 Tex . 40 ( citing Daniel , Neg . Inst ...
... person to pay another person therein named , or to his order , or to bearer , a speci- fied sum of money absolutely and at all events . First Nat . Bank v . Greenville Nat . Bank , 19 S. W. 334 , 84 Tex . 40 ( citing Daniel , Neg . Inst ...
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... person can have but one domicile , or legal residence , at one time . A domicile , once acquired , continues until another is ac- quired elsewhere . The fact that a person leaves his domicile with an intention never to return does not ...
... person can have but one domicile , or legal residence , at one time . A domicile , once acquired , continues until another is ac- quired elsewhere . The fact that a person leaves his domicile with an intention never to return does not ...
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... person for selling , giving away , or keeping intoxicating liquors in violation of law , evidence of " the character and habits of sobriety or other- wise " may be given , includes reputation . State v . Fleming , 53 N. W. 234 , 235 ...
... person for selling , giving away , or keeping intoxicating liquors in violation of law , evidence of " the character and habits of sobriety or other- wise " may be given , includes reputation . State v . Fleming , 53 N. W. 234 , 235 ...
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... person employed to tow or move a vessel , if the bona fide object of the employment by the moving power , as such person is not a pilot , and has not the conduct or charge of the vessel . The words mean the taking the charge and ...
... person employed to tow or move a vessel , if the bona fide object of the employment by the moving power , as such person is not a pilot , and has not the conduct or charge of the vessel . The words mean the taking the charge and ...
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agreement authority Bank cause of action certificate champerty charge charitable charter chattels child chose in action church citing citizen City civil action claim clerk Code collateral color of title commerce common carrier common law condition consent Const constitute construction constructive trust construed contract corporation court creditors criminal debt declaring deed defendant defined duty equity fact heirs held intention Iowa judgment jurisdiction jury land liable lien limited marriage Mass means ment mortgage N. J. Law N. Y. Supp offense officer owner party payment person plaintiff possession proceedings providing purchase purpose Q. R. Co railroad relating sense Stat statute suit synonymous Tenn term testator tion town trust U. S. Comp United wife word children writ writ of certiorari
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Página 1178 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Página 1075 - A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.
Página 1292 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse/^ It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Página 1149 - And every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.
Página 1451 - Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations." The accepted definition of a conspiracy is, a combination of two or more persons by concerted action to accomplish a criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful by criminal or unlawful means.
Página 1288 - If it be held that the term includes the regulation of all such manufactures as are intended to be the subject of commercial transactions in the future, it is impossible to deny that it would also include all productive industries that contemplate the same thing. The result would be that Congress would be invested, to the exclusion of the States, with the power to regulate, not only manufactures, but also agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, domestic fisheries, mining— in short, every branch...
Página 1325 - Constitution denominated in the third article 'law,' not merely suits, which the common law recognized among its old and settled proceedings, but suits in which legal rights were to be ascertained and determined in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone were recognized, and equitable remedies were administered...
Página 1084 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Página 1186 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Página 1172 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.