Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Volume 78E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1901 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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77 Miss action Affirmed aldermen appellee apply assessment attorney authority bill board of supervisors Brief for appellant CALHOON cause centum chancery court charge charter circuit court cited claim common law complainant constitution contract conveyance corporation cotton custody damages debt decision decree deed defendant delivered the opinion duty equity evidence exemption facts filed grant grantor held Hinds county Illinois Central Railroad indictment injunction instruction interest Judge judgment jurisdiction jury land legislature levee liable lien loan mayor Mississippi Mississippi Mills mortgage negligence officers paid parties payment person plaintiff purchase question Railroad Co railroad company railway company reason recover revenue agent ROBERT POWELL rule sheriff Ship Island statute suit Sunflower county supreme court tax collector taxation tion trial trust usury valid verdict Vicksburg Virden void Warren county wife Yazoo
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Page 158 - No suit or action on this policy for the recovery of any claim shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements, nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 491 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Page 472 - That whenever in any cause pending in any court of the United States there shall be a receiver or manager in possession of any property, such receiver or manager shall manage and operate such property according to the requirements of the valid laws of the state in which such property shall be situated, in the same manner that the owner or possessor thereof would be bound to do if in possession thereof.
Page 326 - USCA § 379), it is provided that "the writ of injunction shall not be granted by any court of the United States to stay proceedings in any court of a state, except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.
Page 331 - States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed...
Page 735 - The powers of the government of the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments; and each of them confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit : Those which are legislative to one; those which are executive to another; and those which are judicial to another.
Page 135 - York against any person or persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed within the state, may be executed therein in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States.
Page 945 - In all actions against railroad companies for damages done to persons or property, proof of injury inflicted by the running of the locomotives or cars of such company shall be prima facie evidence of the want of reasonable skill and care on the part of the servants of the company in reference to such injury.
Page 492 - It is not the words of the law but the internal sense of it that makes the law : the letter of the law is the body ; the sense and reason of the law is the soul.
Page 82 - State, and if after any cause of action shall have accrued, the person against whom it shall have accrued shall be absent from and reside out of the State, the time of his absence shall not be taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.