A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union: With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1883 |
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... nature of an appeal ; and its validity may be impeached in other direct proceedings , as by motion to open or set it aside , and in contests between creditors in regard to the validity of their respective judgments ; in this latter ...
... nature of an appeal ; and its validity may be impeached in other direct proceedings , as by motion to open or set it aside , and in contests between creditors in regard to the validity of their respective judgments ; in this latter ...
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... nature essentially judicial proceeding , has been acted upon from words spoken or written in the course of any judicial ; 13 N. Y. 391. The different the earliest times . In 4 Co. 14 b , it was classes of power have been apportioned to ...
... nature essentially judicial proceeding , has been acted upon from words spoken or written in the course of any judicial ; 13 N. Y. 391. The different the earliest times . In 4 Co. 14 b , it was classes of power have been apportioned to ...
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... nature , yet the justification . See ARREST ; TRESPASS . So , too , many acts , and even homicide committed in self - defence , or defence of wife , children , or servants , are justifiable ; see SELF - DE- FENCE ; or in preserving the ...
... nature , yet the justification . See ARREST ; TRESPASS . So , too , many acts , and even homicide committed in self - defence , or defence of wife , children , or servants , are justifiable ; see SELF - DE- FENCE ; or in preserving the ...
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... nature of things ; and , in this sense , all beings have their laws , God has his laws , the material universe has ... natural persons and artificial per- sons , or bodies politic or corporations . These the enjoyment of personal ...
... nature of things ; and , in this sense , all beings have their laws , God has his laws , the material universe has ... natural persons and artificial per- sons , or bodies politic or corporations . These the enjoyment of personal ...
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... natural law , or the law of nature or of God , and positive law . For mattters peculiar to the following classes of laws , see their several titles : - AGRARIAN LAWS ; BREHON LAW ; CA- NON LAW ; CIVIL LAW ; CODES ; COLO- NIAL LAW ...
... natural law , or the law of nature or of God , and positive law . For mattters peculiar to the following classes of laws , see their several titles : - AGRARIAN LAWS ; BREHON LAW ; CA- NON LAW ; CIVIL LAW ; CODES ; COLO- NIAL LAW ...
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Página 262 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Página 147 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Página 16 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Página 146 - If his delusion was that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury to his character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment.
Página 264 - State, our law regarding that there were cases that did not fall within this definition that might be murder in the first degree, passed an Act of Assembly, which reads in part as follows : "All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, s'hall be deemed murder of the first degree, and...
Página 274 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Página 381 - Whenever, through inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, a patentee has claimed more than that of which he was the original or first inventor or discoverer...
Página 294 - Lieutenant-Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. But when the Governor shall, with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State in time of war...
Página 331 - The probate court shall have jurisdiction in probate and testamentary matters, the appointment of administrators and guardians, the settlement of the accounts of executors, administrators, and guardians, and such jurisdiction in habeas corpus, the issuing of marriage licenses, and for the sale of land by executors, administrators, and guardians, and such other jurisdiction, in any county or counties, as may be provided by law.
Página 279 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.