The Pacific Reporter, Volume 12West Publishing Company, 1887 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... jury tend- ing to show that the whistle attached to the engine of the train doing the in- jury was not sounded 80 rods from the place where the railway crosses the highway . There was also evidence before the jury tending to show that ...
... jury tend- ing to show that the whistle attached to the engine of the train doing the in- jury was not sounded 80 rods from the place where the railway crosses the highway . There was also evidence before the jury tending to show that ...
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... jury that there must be proof of a formal celebration of the marriage ceremony , but gave the following instruction : " The marriage between a man and a woman in this state is a civil contract , to which the assent of the contracting ...
... jury that there must be proof of a formal celebration of the marriage ceremony , but gave the following instruction : " The marriage between a man and a woman in this state is a civil contract , to which the assent of the contracting ...
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... jury have not been inserted or indorsed thereon , cannot refuse to testify as to what witnesses were examined before the grand jury . In bank . On habeas corpus . John B. Harmon , for petitioner . BY THE COURT . A person had been ...
... jury have not been inserted or indorsed thereon , cannot refuse to testify as to what witnesses were examined before the grand jury . In bank . On habeas corpus . John B. Harmon , for petitioner . BY THE COURT . A person had been ...
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... jury . If , therefore , neither the members of the grand jury nor the district attorney could be called upon to state whether any witnesses were examined other than those whose names have been inserted or indorsed , a barren right to ...
... jury . If , therefore , neither the members of the grand jury nor the district attorney could be called upon to state whether any witnesses were examined other than those whose names have been inserted or indorsed , a barren right to ...
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... jury that malice , as well as the killing , must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt . 5. CRIMINAL LAW - TRIAL - PRACTICE - ATTORNEY ASSISTING PROSECUTING ATTORNEY . In a trial on indictment for murder , permitting an attorney employed ...
... jury that malice , as well as the killing , must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt . 5. CRIMINAL LAW - TRIAL - PRACTICE - ATTORNEY ASSISTING PROSECUTING ATTORNEY . In a trial on indictment for murder , permitting an attorney employed ...
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Page 177 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 471 - 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 388 - Lanzas, minister of said department : together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. And also all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in, or to the above described premises, and every part and parcel thereof,...
Page 43 - An action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture. 2. An action for trespass upon real property. 3. An action for taking, detaining, or injuring any goods or chattels, including actions for the specific recovery of personal property.
Page 316 - ... and to have a copy thereof, to meet the witnesses face to face, and to have process to compel the attendance of witnesses in his behalf, and a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.
Page 182 - But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 147 - If from the plaintiff's own stating or otherwise the cause of action appears to arise ex turpi causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the Court says he has no right to be assisted. It is upon that ground the Court goes; not for the sake of the defendant, but because they will not lend their aid to such a plaintiff.
Page 472 - In testimony whereof, I, Andrew Jackson, 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 643 - The inquiry in such cases must be what is the property worth in the market, viewed not merely with reference to the uses to which it is at the time applied, but with reference to the uses to which it is plainly adapted; that is to say, what is it worth from its availability for valuable uses.
Page 43 - A lien is a charge imposed in some mode other than by a transfer in trust upon specific property by which it is made security for the performance of an act.