The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts, Common Carriers of Goods and Passengers, Constitutional Law, Investments, Telegraph Companies, &c., &c, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Railroad law |
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... Questions of negligence ordinarily to be determined by jury . 14. But this is true only where the testimony leaves the ... question of negligence is one for the jury 20. One who suffers an animal to go at large can only recover for gross ...
... Questions of negligence ordinarily to be determined by jury . 14. But this is true only where the testimony leaves the ... question of negligence is one for the jury 20. One who suffers an animal to go at large can only recover for gross ...
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... act of incorporation , that , when incorporated , certain things should be done by them . But the question is , * 21 20 CH . II . PRELIMINARY ASSOCIATIONS . One who suffers an animal to go at large can only recover for gross neglect.
... act of incorporation , that , when incorporated , certain things should be done by them . But the question is , * 21 20 CH . II . PRELIMINARY ASSOCIATIONS . One who suffers an animal to go at large can only recover for gross neglect.
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... questions : first , a question whether there was any concluded agreement , any binding agreement , any thing amounting to a positive contract ; and next , there was great delay . Those cases were relied upon , and I can only repeat that ...
... questions : first , a question whether there was any concluded agreement , any binding agreement , any thing amounting to a positive contract ; and next , there was great delay . Those cases were relied upon , and I can only repeat that ...
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... question at all , and , consequently , embarrassed by their authority . am not " Then it is said , there is no mutuality ; and , therefore , that the company could not enforce it , because they have no means of carrying the railway on ...
... question at all , and , consequently , embarrassed by their authority . am not " Then it is said , there is no mutuality ; and , therefore , that the company could not enforce it , because they have no means of carrying the railway on ...
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... question was really wanted by the appellants for what are called extraordinary purposes , they were authorized to ... question how far such a company is bound by contracts entered into by the promoters of the act of parliament by which ...
... question was really wanted by the appellants for what are called extraordinary purposes , they were authorized to ... question how far such a company is bound by contracts entered into by the promoters of the act of parliament by which ...
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Page 55 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 621 - It was introduced to prevent disorder, from a failure of justice and defect of police. Therefore it ought to be used upon all occasions where the law has established no specific remedy, and where in justice and good government there ought to be one.
Page 601 - ... without fault on their part, are injured by using it as such medicine, in consequence of the false label...
Page 627 - Courts, except replevin and ejectment, may endorse upon the writ and copy to be served a notice that the plaintiff intends to claim a writ of mandamus, and the plaintiff may- thereupon claim in the declaration, either together with any other demand which may now be enforced in such action, or separately, a writ of mandamus commanding the defendant to fulfil any duty in the fulfilment of which the plaintiff is personally interested.
Page 456 - 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 576 - Bribes, in the shape of high contingent compensation, must necessarily lead to the use of improper means and the exercise of undue influence. Their necessary consequence is the demoralization of the agent who covenants for them; he is soon brought to believe that any means which will produce so beneficial a result to himself are
Page 632 - I apprehend those who come for them to Parliament do in effect undertake that they shall do and submit to whatever the legislature empowers and compels them to do, and that they shall do nothing else...
Page 603 - Held, in the Exchequer Chamber, (reversing the judgment of the Court of Exchequer), that the right of action for a breach of this agreement, by the dismissal of A.
Page 456 - ... it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbor who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there, harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property, but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbor's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property.
Page 456 - ... which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbor's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property. But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued, and it seems but just that he should, at his peril, keep it there so that no mischief may accrue, or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences. And upon authority this we think, is established to be the law whether the things so brought be...