Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 123Department of Purchase and Supply, 1919 |
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Page 484 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
Page 177 - This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those States which enact it.
Page 486 - And the party of the second part covenants and agrees with the party of the first part, in consideration of the faithful performance of the above specified work, to pay to the party of the first part...
Page 421 - So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work.
Page 156 - The decree of the Circuit Court must be reversed, and the cause remanded with instructions to dismiss the complainant's bill ; and it is So ordered.
Page 787 - The jury in any such action may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just...
Page 109 - It shall not apply to industrial schools which sell their product to other than their own employees or students. (e) Real estate belonging to, actually and exclusively occupied and used by, and personal property, including endowment funds, belonging to Young Men's Christian Associations, and other similar religious associations, orphan or other asylums, reformatories, hospitals and nunneries, conducted not for profit, but exclusively as charities, also parks or playgrounds held by trustees for the...
Page 59 - The true rule is that if the plaintiff knew, or by the exercise of ordinary care might have known, of the...
Page 70 - State of an annual registration fee of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, which shall be irrespective of any specific license or other tax imposed by law upon such company for the privilege of carrying on its business in this State, or upon its franchise or property...
Page 224 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.