The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts, Common Carriers of Goods and Passengers, Constitutional Law, Investments, Telegraph Companies, &c., &c, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Railroad law |
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... owner of private way 5. Heir should sue for compensation 345 , 346 346 346 346 347 6. Lessor and lessee both entitled to compensation 347 347 8. Mill - owner entitled to action for ... LAND - OWNERS UNDER THE ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS . xxix.
... owner of private way 5. Heir should sue for compensation 345 , 346 346 346 346 347 6. Lessor and lessee both entitled to compensation 347 347 8. Mill - owner entitled to action for ... LAND - OWNERS UNDER THE ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS . xxix.
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... Land separated from house by highway not part of premises 354 , 355 SECTION II . THE COMPANY COMPELLABLE TO TAKE INTERSECTED LANDS , AND THE OWNER TO SELL . 1. When less than half an acre remains on either side , company must buy 2. Owner ...
... Land separated from house by highway not part of premises 354 , 355 SECTION II . THE COMPANY COMPELLABLE TO TAKE INTERSECTED LANDS , AND THE OWNER TO SELL . 1. When less than half an acre remains on either side , company must buy 2. Owner ...
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... LAND - OWNER MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NOTICE . 363 CHAPTER XIII . ENTRY UPON LANDS BEFORE COMPENSATION IS ASSESSED ... land - owner's consent after agreement for arbitration 364 364 365 365 5. Bond may be given in certain cases . 365 ...
... LAND - OWNER MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NOTICE . 363 CHAPTER XIII . ENTRY UPON LANDS BEFORE COMPENSATION IS ASSESSED ... land - owner's consent after agreement for arbitration 364 364 365 365 5. Bond may be given in certain cases . 365 ...
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... LAND - OWNERS , AND OTHER INCIDENTS BY THE ENGLISH STATUTES . 1. Liberal compensation allowed 2. Decisions under English statutes . 3. Limit of period for estimating damages 4. Whether claim for damages passes to the devisee or executor ...
... LAND - OWNERS , AND OTHER INCIDENTS BY THE ENGLISH STATUTES . 1. Liberal compensation allowed 2. Decisions under English statutes . 3. Limit of period for estimating damages 4. Whether claim for damages passes to the devisee or executor ...
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... land - owner gives no notice , company may treat it as case of disputed compensation 381 , 382 6. Similar rule under Massachusetts statute regarding alteration of high- ways . 7. And land - owners may recover without waiting for ...
... land - owner gives no notice , company may treat it as case of disputed compensation 381 , 382 6. Similar rule under Massachusetts statute regarding alteration of high- ways . 7. And land - owners may recover without waiting for ...
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Page 55 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 621 - It was introduced to prevent disorder, from a failure of justice and defect of police. Therefore it ought to be used upon all occasions where the law has established no specific remedy, and where in justice and good government there ought to be one.
Page 601 - ... without fault on their part, are injured by using it as such medicine, in consequence of the false label...
Page 627 - Courts, except replevin and ejectment, may endorse upon the writ and copy to be served a notice that the plaintiff intends to claim a writ of mandamus, and the plaintiff may- thereupon claim in the declaration, either together with any other demand which may now be enforced in such action, or separately, a writ of mandamus commanding the defendant to fulfil any duty in the fulfilment of which the plaintiff is personally interested.
Page 456 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 576 - Bribes, in the shape of high contingent compensation, must necessarily lead to the use of improper means and the exercise of undue influence. Their necessary consequence is the demoralization of the agent who covenants for them; he is soon brought to believe that any means which will produce so beneficial a result to himself are
Page 632 - I apprehend those who come for them to Parliament do in effect undertake that they shall do and submit to whatever the legislature empowers and compels them to do, and that they shall do nothing else...
Page 603 - Held, in the Exchequer Chamber, (reversing the judgment of the Court of Exchequer), that the right of action for a breach of this agreement, by the dismissal of A.
Page 456 - ... it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbor who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there, harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property, but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbor's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property.
Page 456 - ... which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbor's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property. But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued, and it seems but just that he should, at his peril, keep it there so that no mischief may accrue, or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences. And upon authority this we think, is established to be the law whether the things so brought be...