Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 59Bancroft-Whitney, 1886 |
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action adverse possession alleged APPEAL assessment assignment Attorney authority Bank bond cause charge City and County claim committed complaint concurred Constitution contract conveyance conveyed corporation County of San Court of equity creditors crime cross-complaint deceased declarations decree deed defendant defendant's delivered demurrer ditch entitled error evidence execution facts fendant filed fraud granted guilty habeas corpus Held hundred dollars indictment insolvent instructed the jury issued Judgment and order jurisdiction land lease lien ment MISJOINDER mortgage motion murder notice offense officer order denying owner paid parties person petition petitioner plaintiff pleading possession premises proceedings PROMISSORY NOTE purchase question quiet title ranch recover refused Respondent RESULTING TRUST Sacramento County San Francisco Santa Clara County SHARPSTEIN Sonoma Valley statute sufficient Superior Court sustained tenants testimony thereof thousand tion trial verdict void witness writ
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Page 266 - ... no right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal until full compensation therefor be first made in money, or ascertained and paid into court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation...
Page 253 - ... no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury.
Page 770 - Upon a trial for murder, the commission of the homicide by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that justify or excuse it, devolves upon him, unless the proof on the part of the prosecution tends to show that the crime committed only amounts to manslaughter, or that the defendant was justifiable or excusable.
Page 325 - All property, except as hereinafter in this section provided, shall be assessed in the county, city, city and county, town, township, or district in which it is situated, in the manner prescribed by law.
Page 289 - For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession, by a person claiming title not founded upon a written instrument, judgment or decree, land is deemed to have been possessed and occupied in the following cases only : "1.
Page 330 - ... to equalize the valuation of the taxable property in the several counties of the State for the purposes of taxation. The Controller of State shall be ex officio a member of the Board. The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties of the State shall constitute Boards of Equalization for their respective counties, whose duty it shall be to equalize the valuation of the taxable property in the county for the purpose of taxation...
Page 240 - That it creates an involuntary servitude forbidden by the thirteenth article of amendment; that it abridges the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States ; that it denies to the plaintiffs the equal protection of the laws ; and that it deprives them of their property without due process of law, contrary to the provisions of the first section of the fourteenth article of amendment.
Page 376 - ... 5. That the offense was committed at some time prior to the time of finding the indictment ; 6. That the act or omission charged as the offense is clearly and distinctly set forth in ordinary and concise language, without repetition, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended ; •j.
Page 329 - A State Board of Equalization, consisting of one member from each Congressional District in this State, as the same existed in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, shall be elected by the qualified...
Page 9 - All laws of a general nature, shall have a uniform operation throughout the state ; nor shall any act, except such as relates to public schools, be passed, to take effect upon the approval of any other authority than the General Assembly, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.