The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 104

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West Publishing Company, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.

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Page 378 - Where a person not otherwise a party to an instrument places thereon his signature in blank before delivery, he is liable as indorser in accordance with the following rules: " (1) If the instrument is payable to the order of a third person, he is liable to the payee and to all subsequent parties.
Page 137 - A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, except such as (1) are due as a tax levied by the United States, the State, county, district, or municipality in which he resides; (2) are liabilities for obtaining property by false pretenses or false representations, or for willful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another...
Page 378 - A person placing his signature upon an instrument otherwise than as maker, drawer or acceptor, is deemed to be an indorser, unless he clearly indicates by appropriate words his intention to be bound in some other capacity.
Page 169 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 339 - ... in the usual course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his employer.
Page 138 - ... either in person or by counsel, cross-examined, or had an opportunity to cross-examine, the witness...
Page 410 - When the judgment is of death, the court of appeals may order a new trial, if it be satisfied that the verdict was against the weight of evidence or against law, or that justice requires a new trial. whether any exception shall have been taken or not in the court below.
Page 295 - These laws are general and uniform, not because they operate upon every person in the state, for they do not, but because every person who is brought within the relation and circumstances provided for is affected by the law.
Page 192 - A child, when adopted, may take the family name of the 'person adopting. After adoption the two shall sustain towards each other the legal relation of parent and child, and have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of that relation.
Page 215 - Member to make such exceptions in its national legislation as it deems necessary in respect of — (a) persons whose employment is of a casual nature and who are employed otherwise than for the purpose of the employer's trade or business...

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