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Page 1041
... Negligence . - Where a policy provides for insured making diligent effort to save his property , it 37 Dore v . Royal Ins . Co. , 98 Mich . 122 , 57 N. W. 30 . 38 Hardwick v . St. Ins . Co. , 20 Ore . 547 , 26 Pac . 840 . 39 Western ...
... Negligence . - Where a policy provides for insured making diligent effort to save his property , it 37 Dore v . Royal Ins . Co. , 98 Mich . 122 , 57 N. W. 30 . 38 Hardwick v . St. Ins . Co. , 20 Ore . 547 , 26 Pac . 840 . 39 Western ...
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... negligence , where blanks are left unfilled . This was the test stated in Montague v . Per- kins , 22 L. J. C. P. 187 , where de- fendant was held liable on an ac- ceptance blank filled up and nego- tiated twelve years later . He must ...
... negligence , where blanks are left unfilled . This was the test stated in Montague v . Per- kins , 22 L. J. C. P. 187 , where de- fendant was held liable on an ac- ceptance blank filled up and nego- tiated twelve years later . He must ...
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... negligence in bringing an action or otherwise assert- ing one's right , which will preclude him from obtaining the aid of such a court . As the ordinary procedure of such courts takes place without a jury , whether the party has been ...
... negligence in bringing an action or otherwise assert- ing one's right , which will preclude him from obtaining the aid of such a court . As the ordinary procedure of such courts takes place without a jury , whether the party has been ...
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... negligence of its employes in the exercise of their employment , it is held a question for a jury , in an action for damages for such negligence , whether the receipt . was a part of the contract between the parties , and it is not to ...
... negligence of its employes in the exercise of their employment , it is held a question for a jury , in an action for damages for such negligence , whether the receipt . was a part of the contract between the parties , and it is not to ...
Page 1237
... court erred , because the instruction sub- mitted both the law and the facts to the jury . Pangburn v . Bull , 1 Wend . ( N. Y. ) 345 , 350 , 352 . CHAPTER LIV . NEGLIGENCE . SECTION 1661. How this Question MALICIOUS PROSECUTION . 1237.
... court erred , because the instruction sub- mitted both the law and the facts to the jury . Pangburn v . Bull , 1 Wend . ( N. Y. ) 345 , 350 , 352 . CHAPTER LIV . NEGLIGENCE . SECTION 1661. How this Question MALICIOUS PROSECUTION . 1237.
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Page 1481 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, and shall extend to all cases at law, without regard to the amount in controversy; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all cases in the manner prescribed by law.
Page 1481 - The right of trial by jury shall be secured to all, and remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties, in all civil cases, in the manner to be prescribed by law.
Page 1482 - The trial by jury, in all cases in which it has been heretofore used, shall remain inviolate forever. But a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases, in the manner to be prescribed by law.
Page 1798 - ... 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.
Page 1054 - ... for the court and not a question of fact for the jury.
Page 1484 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
Page 1480 - In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has heretofore been otherways used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by jury; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless, in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners' wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it.
Page 1739 - It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 1301 - The court said there must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is .shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 1250 - The judge has to say whether any facts have been established by evidence from which negligence may be reasonably inferred ; the jurors have to say whether, from those facts, when submitted to them, negligence ought to be inferred.