The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 44Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1895 |
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... condition as to allow the escape of noxious gases , " is sufficiently definite and specific , provided the pleadings and evidence show with reasonable certainty what manholes are designated in the order . PETITION for an injunction ...
... condition as to allow the escape of noxious gases , " is sufficiently definite and specific , provided the pleadings and evidence show with reasonable certainty what manholes are designated in the order . PETITION for an injunction ...
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... condition as to al- low the escape of noxious gases , " the presiding judge did not abuse his discretion ; and the terms of the order were suffi- ciently definite and specific , construing them in the light of the pleadings and the ...
... condition as to al- low the escape of noxious gases , " the presiding judge did not abuse his discretion ; and the terms of the order were suffi- ciently definite and specific , construing them in the light of the pleadings and the ...
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... condition , received it into his mill and used . it , he should be held to have waived any right to complain of its defective condition , and was bound to pay the full con- tract price . Whatever may be the law applicable in a case ...
... condition , received it into his mill and used . it , he should be held to have waived any right to complain of its defective condition , and was bound to pay the full con- tract price . Whatever may be the law applicable in a case ...
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... condition , consigned to certain named parties in New York and Philadelphia , to be trans- ported by the defendant and connecting carriers , via Atlanta , to the station or wharf nearest to its ultimate destination . The defendant at ...
... condition , consigned to certain named parties in New York and Philadelphia , to be trans- ported by the defendant and connecting carriers , via Atlanta , to the station or wharf nearest to its ultimate destination . The defendant at ...
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... condition , and repair , and at all times free and open to the navigation of boats , rafts , and other water crafts ; and for the transportation of goods , mer- chandise , and produce , " etc. Counsel on both sides referred us to the ...
... condition , and repair , and at all times free and open to the navigation of boats , rafts , and other water crafts ; and for the transportation of goods , mer- chandise , and produce , " etc. Counsel on both sides referred us to the ...
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Page 551 - Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels which shall hereafter be made which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Page 227 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 390 - For the legislature absolutely or conditionally to forbid public speaking in a highway or public park is no more an infringement of the rights of a member of the public than for the owner of a private house to forbid it in his house.
Page 764 - The police of a state, in a comprehensive sense, embraces its whole system of internal regulation by which the state seeks not only to preserve the public order, and to prevent offenses against the state, but also to establish, for the intercourse of citizens with citizens, those rules of good manners and good neighborhood which are calculated to prevent a conflict of rights, and to insure to each the uninterrupted enjoyment of his own so far as is reasonably consistent with a like enjoyment of rights...
Page 764 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Page 761 - Having thus, in the exercise of undisputed constitutional powers, undertaken to provide a currency for the whole country, it cannot be questioned that Congress may, constitutionally, secure the benefit of it to the people by appropriate legislation. To this end, Congress has denied the quality of legal tender to foreign coins, and has provided by law against the imposition of counterfeit and base coin on the community. To the same end, Congress may restrain by suitable enactments, the circulation...
Page 794 - The Governor shall have power, and it shall be his duty, except at such time as the Legislature may be in session, to examine into the condition and administration of any public office, and the acts of any public officer, elective or appointed, to remove from office for gross neglect of duty, or for corrupt conduct in office, or any other misfeasance...
Page 757 - Seventh. To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of...
Page 868 - Exchequer; directed to the judge and parties, of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution thereof, upon a suggestion , that either the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.
Page 896 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.