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... EVIDENCE . Admissions .... Expert testimony as to authorship of marks in writing . Hearsay res gestæ .... Impeachment refreshing memory of witness ... Parol evidence to show conditional liability on a promissory note . 60 494 .42 , 61 ...
... EVIDENCE . Admissions .... Expert testimony as to authorship of marks in writing . Hearsay res gestæ .... Impeachment refreshing memory of witness ... Parol evidence to show conditional liability on a promissory note . 60 494 .42 , 61 ...
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... to reclaim .... 360 Fraudulent use of mails : power of Post Master - General 214 Public policy consent of property owners ... 286 Violation as evidence of negligence .. SURETYSHIP . Contract of viii COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW .
... to reclaim .... 360 Fraudulent use of mails : power of Post Master - General 214 Public policy consent of property owners ... 286 Violation as evidence of negligence .. SURETYSHIP . Contract of viii COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW .
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... evidence of negligence .... .344 , 361 TRUSTS . Devises to charitable use : public charity . Gift mortis causa : delivery . .269 , 287 125 Legacies charged on land : statute of limitations .. 487 , 498 Liability of member of ...
... evidence of negligence .... .344 , 361 TRUSTS . Devises to charitable use : public charity . Gift mortis causa : delivery . .269 , 287 125 Legacies charged on land : statute of limitations .. 487 , 498 Liability of member of ...
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... evidence and incidentally the burden of proof . Being a series of rules and sub rules , a series of illustra- tions under each rule , a discussion or commentary upon the rules and upon the particular illustration , showing the reasons ...
... evidence and incidentally the burden of proof . Being a series of rules and sub rules , a series of illustra- tions under each rule , a discussion or commentary upon the rules and upon the particular illustration , showing the reasons ...
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... evidence . The issue in the case was whether a will had been revoked by cancellation . A handwriting expert had been allowed to testify that certain perpendicular marks drawn with pen and ink over the testator's signature were not made ...
... evidence . The issue in the case was whether a will had been revoked by cancellation . A handwriting expert had been allowed to testify that certain perpendicular marks drawn with pen and ink over the testator's signature were not made ...
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Page 267 - All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof, as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose.
Page 98 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Page 28 - We feel no hesitation in confining these expressions to those privileges and immunities which are, in their nature, fundamental; which belong, of right, to the citizens of all free governments; and which have, at all times, been enjoyed by the citizens of the several states which compose this Union, from the time of their becoming free, independent, and sovereign.
Page 280 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 8 - A contract to be specifically enforced by the court must, as a general rule, be mutual, that is to say, such that it might, at the time it was entered into, have been enforced by either of the parties against the other of them.
Page 489 - The law of the place where a contract is made is, generally speaking, the law of the contract; ie it is the law by which the contract is expounded. But the right of priority forms no part of the contract itself. It is extrinsic, and is rather a personal privilege dependent on the law of the place where the property lies, and where the court sits which is to decide the cause.
Page 178 - ... Any corporation may purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created by any other corporation or corporations of this or any other state, and while owner of such stock may exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon.
Page 20 - Spanish subjects, natives of the Peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its proceeds; and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce and professions, being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners.
Page 51 - The principle is, that a servant, when he engages to serve a master, undertakes, as between himself and his master, to run all the ordinary risks of the service, and this includes the risk of negligence on the part of a fellow-servant, whenever he is acting in discharge of his duty as servant of him who is the common master of both.
Page 175 - Constitution, and that the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce comprises the right to enact a law prohibiting the citizen from entering into those private contracts which directly and substantially, and not merely indirectly, remotely, incidentally, and collaterally, regulate to a greater or less degree commerce among the states.