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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Page 37
... limit or exempt a carrier from liability for loss or dam- age to goods , unless notice thereof is given within a certain time , are not effectual without proof of express assent thereto by the shipper . COMMON CARRIERS — NEGLIGENCE ...
... limit or exempt a carrier from liability for loss or dam- age to goods , unless notice thereof is given within a certain time , are not effectual without proof of express assent thereto by the shipper . COMMON CARRIERS — NEGLIGENCE ...
Page 38
... limit his legal liability by any notice given , either by publication or by entry on receipts given or tickets sold . He may make an express contract , and 384 will then be governed thereby . " According to the decisions of this court ...
... limit his legal liability by any notice given , either by publication or by entry on receipts given or tickets sold . He may make an express contract , and 384 will then be governed thereby . " According to the decisions of this court ...
Page 39
... limit the legal liability of the carrier , and is not effectual without proof of assent thereto by the shipper . 3. When goods are damaged in the hands of the carrier the burden of proof is upon it to show that it was free from ...
... limit the legal liability of the carrier , and is not effectual without proof of assent thereto by the shipper . 3. When goods are damaged in the hands of the carrier the burden of proof is upon it to show that it was free from ...
Page 40
... limit the general liability of the carrier . Incident to every such contract are certain matters which , when not expressed in the instrument , enter into and form a part of it by implication of law , and one of these is the time of ...
... limit the general liability of the carrier . Incident to every such contract are certain matters which , when not expressed in the instrument , enter into and form a part of it by implication of law , and one of these is the time of ...
Page 82
... limits of the state shall be deemed criminal , and to provide for their punishment : Hunter v . State , 40 N. J. L. 495 ; State v . Hall , 114 N. C. 909 ; 41 Am . St. Rep . 822 ; 115 N. C. 811 ; post , p . 000 ; Ex parte McNeeley , 36 W ...
... limits of the state shall be deemed criminal , and to provide for their punishment : Hunter v . State , 40 N. J. L. 495 ; State v . Hall , 114 N. C. 909 ; 41 Am . St. Rep . 822 ; 115 N. C. 811 ; post , p . 000 ; Ex parte McNeeley , 36 W ...
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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.