Delaware Reports: Containing Cases Decided in the Supreme Court (excepting Appeals from the Chancellor) and the Superior Court and the Orphans Court of the State of Delaware, Volume 24David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, James Pennewill, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, William J. Storey, Charles L. Terry Mercantile Print. Company, 1912 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 512 - No bill shall be passed, unless by the assent of a majority of all the members elected to each branch of the legislature, and the question upon the final passage, shall be taken immediately upon its last reading, and the yeas and nays entered on the journal.
Page 547 - Morrison believed, or had reasonable grounds to believe, himself in danger of death or great bodily harm...
Page 472 - A majority of all the members elected to each House, shall be necessary to pass every bill or joint resolution; and all bills and joint resolutions so passed shall be signed by the Presiding Officers of the respective Houses.
Page 470 - ... the names of the' persons voting for and against the same shall be entered on the journals of the respective houses, and a majority of all the members elected to each house shall be necessary to give it -the force of a law.
Page 453 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish them weekly, except such parts as may require secrecy. And the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of any two of them, be entered on the journals.
Page 31 - An attempt to commit a crime is an act done with intent to commit that crime, and forming part of a series of acts which would constitute its actual commission if it were not interrupted.
Page 519 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.
Page 494 - As soon as bills are signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, they shall be taken at once, and on the same day, to the Governor by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or Secretary of the Senate.
Page 515 - No bill shall become a law until it shall have been read and passed, on three different days in each House, and shall have received, on its final passage in each House, the assent of a majority of all the members to which that House shall be entitled under this Constitution ; and shall have been signed by the respective Speakers in open session — the fact of such signing to be noted on the Journal ; and shall have received the approval of the Governor, or shall have been otherwise passed under...
Page 470 - On the final passage of all bills the vote shall be by " yeas " and " nays " upon each bill, separately, and the names of the members voting for and against the same shall be entered on the Journal.