Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, at the ..., Volume 137

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Page 431 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 54 - This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court affirming the...
Page 13 - ... of the negligence of the defendant and the contributory negligence of the plaintiff.
Page 405 - That all persons shall before conviction be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great.
Page 432 - It is held here by a long course of decisions, that an agreement for the sale of any commodity not in existence at the time, but which the vendor is to manufacture or put in a condition to be delivered, such as flour from wheat not yet ground, or nails to be made from iron belonging to the manufacturer, is not a contract of sale. The New York rule lays stress on the word sale.
Page 416 - ... or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 227 - One of the most valuable of the criteria furnished us by these authorities, is to ascertain whether any new cause has intervened between the fact accomplished and the alleged cause. If a new force or power has intervened of itself sufficient to stand as the cause of the misfortune, the other must be considered as too remote.
Page 42 - An act to extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war...
Page 494 - A paper is said to be filed when it is delivered to the proper officer, and by him received, to be kept on file.
Page 269 - That every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed...

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