Institutes of American Law, Volume 3R.E. Peterson, 1854 - Law |
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... example , notice of non - payment of a bill of exchange must be given to an indorser to hold him responsible . As a general rule , whenever the defendant's liability to perform an act depends on another occurrence which is best known to ...
... example , notice of non - payment of a bill of exchange must be given to an indorser to hold him responsible . As a general rule , whenever the defendant's liability to perform an act depends on another occurrence which is best known to ...
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... example , the contract is for the delivery of goods from the seller to the buyer on demand , the former being a manufacturer of such goods , or a dealer in them , no place being particularly named , the manufactory or store of the ...
... example , the contract is for the delivery of goods from the seller to the buyer on demand , the former being a manufacturer of such goods , or a dealer in them , no place being particularly named , the manufactory or store of the ...
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... example , the horse Napoleon ; and he pays for him or tenders the price to the seller , if the seller refuses to deliver him , he may take him , if he can do so peace- ably ; but if the sale be not of a specific chattel , as if a man ...
... example , the horse Napoleon ; and he pays for him or tenders the price to the seller , if the seller refuses to deliver him , he may take him , if he can do so peace- ably ; but if the sale be not of a specific chattel , as if a man ...
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... examples : if the landlord has aliened the seigniory or reversion , he is no longer a party to the tenure , and , therefore , as no forfeiture of the land can accrue to him , he cannot distrain ; so that the distrainor must be entitled ...
... examples : if the landlord has aliened the seigniory or reversion , he is no longer a party to the tenure , and , therefore , as no forfeiture of the land can accrue to him , he cannot distrain ; so that the distrainor must be entitled ...
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... example , a tenant at will , if quitting upon a notice from his landlord , is entitled to the emblements or growing crops ; and , therefore , even after they are reaped , if they remain on the land , for the purpose of husbandry , they ...
... example , a tenant at will , if quitting upon a notice from his landlord , is entitled to the emblements or growing crops ; and , therefore , even after they are reaped , if they remain on the land , for the purpose of husbandry , they ...
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Page 90 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a state in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States...
Page 91 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States upon a...
Page 376 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true : first, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another Court...
Page 114 - States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 441 - No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient, in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon (id.
Page 93 - The supreme court shall also have appellate jurisdiction from the circuit courts and courts of the several states, in the cases hereinafter specially provided for; and shall have power to issue writs of prohibition to the district courts, when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...
Page 109 - And upon a like process, may final judgments and decrees in civil actions, and suits in equity in a circuit court, brought there by original process, or removed there from...
Page 652 - The Rule of law is laid down with perfect correctness in the case of Butterfield v. Forrester (x), that although there may have been Negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet unless he might by the exercise of ordinary care have avoided the consequences of the defendant's Negligence, he is entitled to recover. But if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong.
Page 88 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Page 85 - It shall be the duty of the marshal of each district to attend the district and circuit courts when sitting therein, and to execute throughout the district all lawful precepts directed to him and issued under the authority of the United States; and he shall have power to command all necessary assistance in the execution of his duty.