United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1891 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... duty to the public ; and therefore no action could be maintained by the lessor upon the contract , or to recover the sums thereby payable , even while the lessee had enjoyed the benefits of the contract . Statement of the Case . THIS ...
... duty to the public ; and therefore no action could be maintained by the lessor upon the contract , or to recover the sums thereby payable , even while the lessee had enjoyed the benefits of the contract . Statement of the Case . THIS ...
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... duty as an equiva- lent . It never became a trustee for the public to discharge a duty because of a privilege conferred . It was vested with a franchise to be a corporation , to use a seal , and to act with- out its members becoming ...
... duty as an equiva- lent . It never became a trustee for the public to discharge a duty because of a privilege conferred . It was vested with a franchise to be a corporation , to use a seal , and to act with- out its members becoming ...
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... duty to the public such as it would have owed to it if it had acquired property under the right of eminent domain , or had been vested with a power to do some act for the public benefit , by legislative grant , which it was not ...
... duty to the public such as it would have owed to it if it had acquired property under the right of eminent domain , or had been vested with a power to do some act for the public benefit , by legislative grant , which it was not ...
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... duty of manufacturing more cars . In point of fact , the capital stock was increased to permit the issue of a stock dividend . Though there is no evidence of this before this court , it can conceive of many reasons why the capital was ...
... duty of manufacturing more cars . In point of fact , the capital stock was increased to permit the issue of a stock dividend . Though there is no evidence of this before this court , it can conceive of many reasons why the capital was ...
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... duty upon it as the con- dition of a privilege of which it retains the benefit , without incurring any other risk than the possible action of the court upon a writ of quo warranto ? Certainly a corporation which is authorized to turn ...
... duty upon it as the con- dition of a privilege of which it retains the benefit , without incurring any other risk than the possible action of the court upon a writ of quo warranto ? Certainly a corporation which is authorized to turn ...
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Page 213 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings which shall not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party, and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 201 - Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and seven, all leases, estates, interests of freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest of , in, to or out of any messuages, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parol, and not put in writing, and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 437 - Now Know Ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the Premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided...
Page 438 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase...
Page 195 - ... 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.
Page 437 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 1 - ... and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections: ProOpinion of the Court.
Page 424 - ... and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same...
Page 437 - In Testimony Whereof, I Rutherford B, Hayes President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent and. the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 623 - March 3, 1891, the plaintiff in error or appellant shall file with the clerk of the court below, with his petition for the writ of error or appeal, an assignment of errors, which shall set out separately and particularly each error asserted and intended to be urged.