The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 1Bancroft-Whitney, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... full payment of its claim on account of discounts , they were properly granted . For any loss or injury sustained by reason of misapplication VOL . I. 5 - Saylor v . Plaine . of the collaterals by the APRIL TERM , 1869 . 33.
... full payment of its claim on account of discounts , they were properly granted . For any loss or injury sustained by reason of misapplication VOL . I. 5 - Saylor v . Plaine . of the collaterals by the APRIL TERM , 1869 . 33.
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... , 1 Allen , 223 . So far , however , as regards the construction of the will before us , it is unnecessary to decide which of these two rules is the better Branson v . Hill . sustained by authority and reason 42 MARYLAND ,
... , 1 Allen , 223 . So far , however , as regards the construction of the will before us , it is unnecessary to decide which of these two rules is the better Branson v . Hill . sustained by authority and reason 42 MARYLAND ,
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... sustained by authority and reason , because all the cases concur in saying that the intention must be carried out if it can be fairly ascertained from the language and provisions of the will . It is , then , to the instrument itself to ...
... sustained by authority and reason , because all the cases concur in saying that the intention must be carried out if it can be fairly ascertained from the language and provisions of the will . It is , then , to the instrument itself to ...
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... sustained by the authorities cited in the opinion , and , we think , correctly states the law . It is there held that a broker , employed to sell real estate , must produce a person who ultimately becomes a purchaser , before he is ...
... sustained by the authorities cited in the opinion , and , we think , correctly states the law . It is there held that a broker , employed to sell real estate , must produce a person who ultimately becomes a purchaser , before he is ...
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... sustained as constitutional and valid , and we do not perceive why the reasoning of the judges , who upheld the validity of restrictions thus imposed by state legislation , may not apply with equal force to other cases . A trade in ...
... sustained as constitutional and valid , and we do not perceive why the reasoning of the judges , who upheld the validity of restrictions thus imposed by state legislation , may not apply with equal force to other cases . A trade in ...
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Page 475 - It is not mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 59 - The right of a citizen of one State, to pass through or to reside in any other State, for purposes of trade, agriculture, professional pursuits, or otherwise ; to claim the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus ; to institute and maintain actions of any kind in the courts of the State ; to take, hold, and dispose of property, either real or personal ; and an exemption from higher taxes or impositions than are paid by the other citizens of the State...
Page 349 - State authority, at the place where such bank is located and not elsewhere, but not at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State...
Page 572 - ... 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 395 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government, all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws, of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, etc., are component parts of this mass.
Page 131 - There was no evidence in the case tending to show "that the brakeman struck the plaintiff in personal resentment of some insult offered him by the plaintiff...
Page 474 - When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished...
Page 16 - That where any conveyance shall be made of any lands or tenements by which a trust or confidence shall or may arise or result by the implication or construction of law, or be transferred or extinguished by an act...
Page 411 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Page 398 - It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it.