Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 48Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1900 |
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Page 99 - ... a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the Influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves In life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.
Page 222 - The legislature may not, under the guise of protecting the public interests, arbitrarily interfere with private business, or impose unusual and unnecessary restrictions upon lawful occupations. In other words, its determination as to what is a proper exercise of its police powers is not final or conclusive, but is subject to the supervision of the courts.
Page 265 - The liberty mentioned in that amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper,...
Page 413 - An officer de facto is one who has the reputation of being the officer he assumes to be, and yet is not a good officer in point of law.
Page 184 - The defendant may set forth by answer as many defenses and counterclaims as he may have, whether they be such as have been heretofore denominated legal or equitable, or both.
Page 394 - Virginia, praying for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that he was held in custody for execution "in violation of the laws and the Constitution of the United States...
Page 171 - Knowledge, learning, and virtue being essential to the preservation of republican institutions, and the diffusion of the opportunities and advantages of education throughout the different portions of the State being highly conducive to the promotion of this end, it shall be the duty of the general assembly, in all future periods of this government, to cherish literature and science.
Page 340 - The act singles out a certain class of debtors and punishes them when for like delinquencies it punishes no others. They are not treated as other debtors, or equally with other debtors. They cannot appeal to the courts as other litigants under like conditions and with like protection. If litigation terminates adversely to them...
Page 323 - keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope...
Page 294 - ... with interest thereon at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, from rendition of bill.