The Southern Reporter, Volume 32West Publishing Company, 1903 |
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Page 369 - Starr, forty-five dollars, for value received with interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from date, until paid...
Page 130 - ... person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person; writing includes printing and typewriting; oath includes affirmation or declaration; and every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify...
Page 173 - It appears, objected on the ground that the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence.
Page 103 - ... to appear and show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted...
Page 289 - It cannot be, therefore, that the statute which made them negotiable by indorsement and delivery, or negotiable in the same manner as bills of exchange and promissory notes are negotiable, intended to change totally their character, put them in all respects on the footing of instruments which are the representatives of money, and charge the negotiation of them with all the consequences which usually attend or follow the negotiation of bills and notes.
Page 162 - There must be a misstatement of an existing fact: but the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion.
Page 128 - Cas. 581, it was held that where the testator gave the residue of his real and personal estate to trustees for investment in their joint names, and directed the interest from time to time to be paid to such lineal descendants as they might severally need...
Page 127 - He left a will by which he devised all his real and personal estate to his wife for life, and after her death, to be equally divided between the plaintiffs, his two sons, who have remained in possession ever since.
Page 253 - Upon the introduction of all the evidence the defendant requested the court to give to the jury the following written charges, and separately excepted to the court's refusal to give each of them as asked : (a) " If the jury believe the evidence, they must find in favor of the deWoodward Iron Co. v. Herndon. (Ns) fendant upon the first count of the complaint." (b) " If the jury believe the evidence, the y must find for the defendant...
Page 410 - ... for which the tax is intended, shall have been submitted to a vote of the property taxpayers of such parish...