Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 44 |
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action alleged amount appellant appellee assessed assignment assumpsit attorney authority averment bill brought Bureau county cause remanded cent chancery CHIEF JUSTICE WALKER Circuit Court claim complainant contract convey conveyance Cook county court of equity covenants creditors damages debt declaration decree deed defendant in error delivered the opinion demand demurrer dower Dutcher entered entitled equity evidence executed fact filed fraud heirs held husband instruction interest issue Judge Judgment reversed jury JUSTICE BREESE delivered JUSTICE LAWRENCE delivered JUSTICE WALKER delivered La Salle county land lease levy liable lien Mahlon Pitney ment Messrs mortgage notice owner paid parties payment person plaintiffs in error plea possession premises presiding proceeding proof purchase money question real estate record recover refused rendered rent rule scire facias sold statute statute of frauds suit Syllabus tion trial trust verdict wife WRIT OF ERROR
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Page 231 - The corporate authorities of counties, townships, school districts, cities, towns and villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes, such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property, within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.
Page 230 - The general assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property...
Page 158 - There are, without doubt, occasions in which private property may lawfully be taken possession of or destroyed to prevent it from falling into the hands of the public enemy; and also where a military officer, charged with a particular duty, may impress private property into the public service or take it for public use. Unquestionably, in such cases, the government is bound to make full compensation to the owner ; but the officer is not a trespasser.
Page 268 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present...
Page 162 - That any order of the President, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal, pending, or to be commenced, for any search, seizure, arrest, or imprisonment, made, done, or committed, or acts omitted to be done, under and by virtue of such order, or under color of any law of Congress...
Page 157 - ... rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration; for if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war.
Page 461 - Todd delivered the opinion of the court: This was an action on the case brought by the plaintiff...
Page 513 - In the exercise of this power, congress has passed "an act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade, and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 330 - It is expressly understood and agreed by and between the parties aforesaid, that if the rent above reserved, or any part thereof, shall be behind or unpaid on the day of payment whereon the same ought to be paid, as aforesaid...
Page 513 - Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said party of the second part...