A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union: With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law, Svazek 2J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1883 |
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Strana 4
... defendant , express or implied ; 9 Metc . 572 ; or if after verdict against the accused , it has been set aside on ... defendant ; 12 La . An . 44 ; in the same right , though it may have been by different titles . Thus , a plain- tiff ...
... defendant , express or implied ; 9 Metc . 572 ; or if after verdict against the accused , it has been set aside on ... defendant ; 12 La . An . 44 ; in the same right , though it may have been by different titles . Thus , a plain- tiff ...
Strana 6
... defendants ; 1 M'Cord , Ch . 301 ; and a person may be joined merely as defendant in such bill ; 3 Ala . 214. A person should not be joined as a party to such bill who may be called as a witness on trial ; 13 Ill . 212 ; 3 Barb . Ch ...
... defendants ; 1 M'Cord , Ch . 301 ; and a person may be joined merely as defendant in such bill ; 3 Ala . 214. A person should not be joined as a party to such bill who may be called as a witness on trial ; 13 Ill . 212 ; 3 Barb . Ch ...
Strana 13
... defendant . Judgment in error is a judgment rendered by a court of error on a record sent up from an inferior court . Final judgment is one which puts an end to a suit . Interlocutory judgment is one given in the JUDGE - MADE LAW . A ...
... defendant . Judgment in error is a judgment rendered by a court of error on a record sent up from an inferior court . Final judgment is one which puts an end to a suit . Interlocutory judgment is one given in the JUDGE - MADE LAW . A ...
Strana 14
... defendant in con- fession and avoidance and issue joined thereon , and verdict found for defendant , and then it ap- pears that the pleading was bad in law and might have been demurred to on that ground . The plea being substantially ...
... defendant in con- fession and avoidance and issue joined thereon , and verdict found for defendant , and then it ap- pears that the pleading was bad in law and might have been demurred to on that ground . The plea being substantially ...
Strana 15
... defendant when he has failed to appear after being served with the writ ; to plead , after being ruled so to do , or , in Pennsylvania and some other states , to file an affidavit of defence within the pre- scribed time ; or , generally ...
... defendant when he has failed to appear after being served with the writ ; to plead , after being ruled so to do , or , in Pennsylvania and some other states , to file an affidavit of defence within the pre- scribed time ; or , generally ...
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Strana 262 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Strana 147 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Strana 16 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Strana 146 - If his delusion was that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury to his character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment.
Strana 264 - State, our law regarding that there were cases that did not fall within this definition that might be murder in the first degree, passed an Act of Assembly, which reads in part as follows : "All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, s'hall be deemed murder of the first degree, and...
Strana 274 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Strana 381 - Whenever, through inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, a patentee has claimed more than that of which he was the original or first inventor or discoverer...
Strana 294 - Lieutenant-Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. But when the Governor shall, with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State in time of war...
Strana 331 - The probate court shall have jurisdiction in probate and testamentary matters, the appointment of administrators and guardians, the settlement of the accounts of executors, administrators, and guardians, and such jurisdiction in habeas corpus, the issuing of marriage licenses, and for the sale of land by executors, administrators, and guardians, and such other jurisdiction, in any county or counties, as may be provided by law.
Strana 279 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.