Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volumen73 |
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Adm'r administrator affirmed agent Alabama alleged amendment appellant appellee assigned as error assumpsit attachment authority averments Bill in Equity bill of exceptions bond Chancery Court charge circuit court claim Code common law complainant contract conveyance conviction Coosa corporation cotton court of equity creditors debt declared decree deed defendant defendant's delivery demurrer detinue dollars duty entitled evidence executed fact filed habeas corpus husband indictment intention interest issue Jones judgment jurisdiction jurors jury justice land levy liability lien ment Mobile County mortgage offense opinion overruled paid parties payment personal property petition plaintiff plea plea in abatement possession probate court proof prosecution purchase-money purchaser question Railroad Company recover refused rendered rents rule separate estate settlement sheriff shown sold statute statute of limitations sued suit supra sureties tenant tended to show Tennessee testator testimony thereof tion trial trust widow wife witness writ
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Página 32 - ... were intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government, unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.
Página 522 - A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential ; and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him.
Página 36 - A state acts by its legislative, its executive, or its judicial authorities. It can act in no other way. The constitutional provision, therefore, must mean that no agency of the state, or of the officers or agents by whom its powers are exerted, shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Página 510 - Territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged has fled...
Página 510 - The Constitution of the United States provides, that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall. on demand of the executive authority of the State ¡from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Página 36 - Whoever, by virtue of public position under a state government, deprives another of property, life, or liberty, without due process of law, or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition; and as he acts in the name and for the state, and is clothed with the state's power, his act is that of the state. This must be so, or the constitutional prohibition has no meaning.
Página 475 - ... hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
Página 654 - The true and appropriate office of a usage or custom is, to interpret the otherwise indeterminate intentions of parties, and to ascertain the nature and extent of their contracts, arising not from express stipulations, but from mere implications and presumptions, and acts of a doubtful or equivocal character.
Página 35 - The provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution we have quoted all have reference to State action exclusively, and not to any action of private individuals.
Página 399 - March, 1881, and was tried on the plea of the general issue, the trial resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed.