The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Volume 8Freeman & Bolles, 1832 - Law |
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... vessel broke open and em- bezzled the contents of a trunk , he had received to carry to another port : the delivery of the trunk and its being broken open being proved , the party was admitted to prove the con- tents and their value ...
... vessel broke open and em- bezzled the contents of a trunk , he had received to carry to another port : the delivery of the trunk and its being broken open being proved , the party was admitted to prove the con- tents and their value ...
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... vessels and cargoes ; each vessel and its cargo , bearing one half of the damage . In the present case , in pursuance of the decision of the tribunal at Hamburg , the loss was equally apportioned between the ship and her cargo , that is ...
... vessels and cargoes ; each vessel and its cargo , bearing one half of the damage . In the present case , in pursuance of the decision of the tribunal at Hamburg , the loss was equally apportioned between the ship and her cargo , that is ...
Page 47
... vessel had been the one injured by the collision , then by the law of Hamburg , as applied in this case , the other vessel and cargo must have made good one half of the damage , and ac- cordingly the insurers of the American vessel and ...
... vessel had been the one injured by the collision , then by the law of Hamburg , as applied in this case , the other vessel and cargo must have made good one half of the damage , and ac- cordingly the insurers of the American vessel and ...
Page 48
... vessel and cargo , it might possibly raise another ques- tion , namely , whether the loss was not thus brought within the exception of losses under five per cent . Thus in the reverse of the event in this case , as to the party damaged ...
... vessel and cargo , it might possibly raise another ques- tion , namely , whether the loss was not thus brought within the exception of losses under five per cent . Thus in the reverse of the event in this case , as to the party damaged ...
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... vessel runs against the vessel insured , and is thereby injured , the vessel insured , with its cargo , shall pay , half of the damage . Now the policy provides that the underwriters shall indemnify the assured against the loss which ...
... vessel runs against the vessel insured , and is thereby injured , the vessel insured , with its cargo , shall pay , half of the damage . Now the policy provides that the underwriters shall indemnify the assured against the loss which ...
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Page 428 - No mortgage of personal property hereafter made shall be valid against any other person than the parties thereto, unless possession of the mortgaged property be delivered to and retained by the mortgagee, or unless the mortgage be recorded by the clerk of the town where the mortgagor resides.
Page 372 - States,' in those of equity and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity and to courts of admiralty respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law...
Page 298 - But this must be understood with very many and very great restrictions. 'Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony.
Page 372 - They interfere forcibly with the relations established between the United States and the Cherokee nation, the regulation of which, according to the settled principles of our Constitution, are committed exclusively to the government of the Union.
Page 373 - He was apprehended, tried, and condemned, under color of a law which has been shown to be repugnant to the constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States. Had a judgment, liable to the same objections, been rendered for property, none would question the jurisdiction of this court. It cannot be less clear when the judgment affects personal liberty, and inflicts disgraceful punishment, if punishment could disgrace when inflicted on innocence. The plaintiff in error is not less interested in...
Page 320 - The promise thus made was a promise " to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person who is himself, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance.
Page 474 - That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties by this act imposed, in respect to all goods, wares and merchandise, on the importation of which, in American or foreign vessels, a specific discrimination has not already been made, which, from and after the third day of March, aforesaid, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States...
Page 423 - The judges of the circuit and district courts shall not allow any bill of exceptions which shall contain the charge of the court at large to the jury in trials at common law, upon any general exception to the whole of such charge. But the party excepting shall be required to state distinctly the several matters of law in such charge to which he excepts; and those matters of law, and those only, shall be inserted in the bill of exceptions and allowed by the court.
Page 231 - AN ANALYTICAL DIGEST of the Reports of Cases decided in the Courts of Common Law and Equity, of Appeal and Nisi Prius, and in the Ecclesiastical Courts, in the year 1851.
Page 373 - The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no. force...