Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Svazek 175 |
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Strana 599 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York ; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of , according to the best of my ability.
Strana 417 - In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence ; such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been seen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act.
Strana 317 - ... a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court.
Strana 170 - If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable.
Strana 476 - ... jury if there was any evidence, even a scintilla, in support of the case ; but it is now settled that the question for the judge (subject of course to review) is, as is stated by Maule, J., in Jewell v.
Strana 415 - Damages arising from mere sudden terror, unaccompanied by any actual physical injury, but occasioning a nervous or mental shock, cannot, under such circumstances, their lordships think, be considered a consequence which, in the ordinary course of things, would flow from the negligence of the gatekeeper.
Strana 473 - It is the settled law of this court that, when the evidence given at the trial, with all the inferences which the jury could justifiably draw from it, is insufficient to support a verdict for the plaintiff, so that such a verdict, if returned, must be set aside, the court is not bound to submit the case to the jury, but may direct a verdict for the defendant.
Strana 115 - If, with the consent of this company, an interest under this policy shall exist in favor of a mortgagee or of any person or corporation having an interest in the subject of insurance other than the interest of the insured as described herein, the conditions hereinbefore contained shall apply in the manner expressed in such provisions and conditions of insurance relating to such interest as shall be written upon, attached, or appended hereto.
Strana 170 - It is essential to just construction that many words which import something excessive should be understood in a more mitigated sense, — in that sense which common usage justifies. The word " necessary
Strana 534 - If any section of a law be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper mode of discovering its true meaning is by comparing it with the other sections, and finding out the sense of one clause by the words or obvious intent of another.