The Encyclopedic Digest of Alabama Reports: Being a Complete Encyclopedia and Digest of All the Alabama Case Law Up to and Including Volume 175, Alabama Reports, Volume 6, Alabama Appellate Court Reports, and Volume 62, Southern Reporter, Volume 11Thomas Johnson Michie Michie Company, 1917 |
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Page 220 - No lands acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 545 - Every man must be taken to *be cognizant of the law; otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance might not be carried. It would be urged in almost every case.
Page 118 - A surety is usually bound with his principal by the same instrument, executed at the same time, and on the same consideration. He is an original promisor and debtor from the beginning, and is held ordinarily to know every default of his principal.
Page 409 - Held, that the question of plaintiff's contributory negligence was for the jury.
Page 45 - one who undertakes to transact some business or to manage some affair for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of It" ; also that " 'agent,
Page 62 - ... where the employment and creation of agency is of such a nature as to carry with it the necessary implication that a subagent is to be employed in connection with the agency created, the principal is bound by the acts of such subagent while acting within the line of employment or scope or authority of agency, and is charged with notice or knowledge acquired by him while so acting. The authority of the agent...
Page 535 - ... reference ; and he shall have full authority to examine the parties in the cause upon oath, touching all matters contained in the reference ; and also to require the production of all books, papers, writings, vouchers, and other documents, applicable thereto ; and also to examine, on oath, viva voce, all witnesses produced by the parties before him...
Page 593 - State court before or at the term at which said cause could be first tried and before the trial thereof...
Page 354 - In wanton negligence, the party doing the act, or failing to act, is conscious of his conduct, and without having the intent to injure, is conscious, from his knowledge of existing circumstances and conditions, that his conduct will likely or probably result in injury.
Page 202 - Eighty acres, according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land office by the Surveyor General...