American Law Reports Annotated, Svazek 40

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Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1926

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Strana 511 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Strana 49 - That contracts of insurance, like other contracts, are to be construed according to the sense and meaning of the terms which the parties have used, and, if they are clear and unambiguous, their terms are to be taken and understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense.
Strana 220 - action shall be brought . . . upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them . . . unless the agreement upon which such action
Strana 656 - vacates his office, where the Constitution provides that no person holding any office of honor or profit under the government of the United States shall hold any office of honor or profit under the authority of the state.
Strana 456 - to the effect that where the instrument is in the hands of a holder in due course, a valid delivery thereof by all parties prior to him, so as to make them liable to him, is conclusively presumed.
Strana 505 - The authorities are entirely agreed upon the proposition that an owner or occupant of lands or buildings, who directly or by implication invites or induces others to go thereon or therein, owes to such persons a duty to have his premises in a reasonably safe condition, and to give warning of latent or concealed perils.
Strana 368 - Public policy" is "that principle of the law which holds that no subject can do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good.
Strana 101 - I have always considered likeness as an argument of a child being the son of a parent; and the rather as the distinction between individuals in the human species is more discernible than in other animals. A man may survey ten thousand people before he sees two faces perfectly alike ; and in an army of a hundred thousand men
Strana 73 - 15 of article 1 of the Constitution of Ohio, "No person shall be imprisoned for debt in any civil action, on mesne or final process, unless in cases of fraud.
Strana 406 - is, one greater than other persons in the community,—and an unexpected injury is sustained by reason of the elements, the injury constitutes an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment, within the meaning of the workmen's compensation acts.

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