The American Law Register and Review, Volume 42University of Pennsylvania Press, 1894 - Electronic journals |
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... question . The Supreme Court had thus in three opinions held that the plaintiff , Sanderson , was entitled to recover dam- ages for the pollution of the stream through the mining operations of the coal company , and the case was tried ...
... question . The Supreme Court had thus in three opinions held that the plaintiff , Sanderson , was entitled to recover dam- ages for the pollution of the stream through the mining operations of the coal company , and the case was tried ...
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... question merely for the reason that the question was not considered doubtful . ' ( The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act of 39 and 40 Vict . , C. 75. 5 ; 1876 ) provided in reference to mining pollutions that every person who causes to ...
... question merely for the reason that the question was not considered doubtful . ' ( The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act of 39 and 40 Vict . , C. 75. 5 ; 1876 ) provided in reference to mining pollutions that every person who causes to ...
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... question could not have tended to the injury of the de- feated party . If it appears affirma- tively and beyond dispute that the instructions , instead of being preju- dicial to the party complaining were really favorable , to him and ...
... question could not have tended to the injury of the de- feated party . If it appears affirma- tively and beyond dispute that the instructions , instead of being preju- dicial to the party complaining were really favorable , to him and ...
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... questions of law addressed to him by the jury . A reversal was allowed in Bunn v . Croul , 10 Johns . , N. Y. , 239 , where the question was one of fact and not a matter of law . See also Mahoney v . Decker , 18 Hun . , N. Y. , 365. In ...
... questions of law addressed to him by the jury . A reversal was allowed in Bunn v . Croul , 10 Johns . , N. Y. , 239 , where the question was one of fact and not a matter of law . See also Mahoney v . Decker , 18 Hun . , N. Y. , 365. In ...
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... question that was being tried , and the end to which it was ob- viously directed is utterly indefen- sible . The duty of the trial judge to repress needless scandal and gratituitous attacks on character is a very plain one , and good ...
... question that was being tried , and the end to which it was ob- viously directed is utterly indefen- sible . The duty of the trial judge to repress needless scandal and gratituitous attacks on character is a very plain one , and good ...
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Page 169 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Page 345 - There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail ; it is not a privilege of a citizen of the state of or a citizen of the United States.
Page 281 - ... take possession of the books, records, and assets of every description of such association, collect all debts, dues, and claims belonging to such association, and, upon the order of a court of record of competent jurisdiction, may sell or compound all bad or doubtful debts, and, on a like order, sell all the real and personal...
Page 94 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 346 - ... when that which the legislature has done comes within the rule that, if a statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation to those objects, or is, beyond all question, a plain, palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution.
Page 520 - ... equidistant from those two corners which stand on the same line. Second. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the surveyor general, shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the sections, or subdivisions, for which they were intended, and the length of such lines, as returned, shall be held and considered as the true length thereof.
Page 424 - The American Constitution is no exception to the rule that everything which has power to win the obedience and respect of men must have its roots deep in the past, and that the more slowly every institution has grown, so much the more enduring is it likely to prove. There is little in this Constitution that is absolutely new. There is much that is as old as Magna Charta.
Page 424 - The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved.
Page 527 - ... bounded on the northern and western lines of such townships shall be sold as containing only the quantity expressed in the returns and plats respectively, and all others as containing the complete legal quantity.
Page 106 - The first appropriator who subjects the property to use, or takes the necessary steps for that purpose, is regarded, except as against the Government, as the source of title in all controversies relating to the property. As respects the use of water for mining purposes, the doctrines of the common law declaratory of the rights of riparian owners were, at an early day after the discovery of gold, found to be inapplicable or applicable only in a very limited extent to the necessities of miners, and...