Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 237

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Page 308 - To do all acts and make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease.
Page 30 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Page 200 - Dollars ($100.00) , or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every bird taken, stored, transported, or possessed, contrary to the provisions of this Section.
Page 33 - All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation throughout the State, and the organization. jurisdiction, power, proceedings and practice of all the courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the proceedings, judgments and decrees of such courts, severally, shall be uniform...
Page 311 - Carolina will be reversed, and the cause will be remanded with directions to proceed in conformity to this opinion ; and it is So ordered MR.
Page 611 - The principle seems to us to be that in contracts in which the performance depends on the continued existence of a given person or thing, a condition is implied that the impossibility of performance, arising from the perishing of the person or thing, shall excuse the performance.
Page 32 - ... municipal courts in the city of Chicago it may abolish the offices of Justices of the Peace, Police Magistrates and Constables in and for the territory within said city, and may limit the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the territory of said county of Cook outside of said city to that territory, and in such case the jurisdiction and practice of said municipal courts shall be such as the General Assembly shall prescribe...
Page 436 - In the construction of all statutes the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Legislature...
Page 468 - If the consequences follow in unbroken sequence from the wrong to the injury without an intervening efficient cause, it is sufficient if, at the time of the negligence, the wrongdoer might, by the exercise of ordinary care, have foreseen that some injury might result from his negligence.
Page 518 - ... whose duty it shall then become to apply to the Circuit Court of the county in which the principal office of such association may be located, or to any of the judges of said court, in...

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