The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 8Samuel Owen Samuel Owen, 1850 - Law |
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... give shape and direc- tion to its institutions ? In this country , at least , the people through their representatives in legislature . It is , therefore , in accordance with the laws of the human mind , that the impress of a people's ...
... give shape and direc- tion to its institutions ? In this country , at least , the people through their representatives in legislature . It is , therefore , in accordance with the laws of the human mind , that the impress of a people's ...
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... give us rather the hypocrisy ( a prelatical misnomer of the learned commentator ) of the times of Cromwell , than the licentiousness of those of Charles , if such must be their effect on the morals of the people and the laws of the land ...
... give us rather the hypocrisy ( a prelatical misnomer of the learned commentator ) of the times of Cromwell , than the licentiousness of those of Charles , if such must be their effect on the morals of the people and the laws of the land ...
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... to be deduced from the whole will , was to give to the Methodist Church a remainder in fee , which vested in them at the time of his death , subject to the life es- N. Y. Superior Court . - Ayres , & c THE NEW - YORK LEGAL OBSERVER . 19.
... to be deduced from the whole will , was to give to the Methodist Church a remainder in fee , which vested in them at the time of his death , subject to the life es- N. Y. Superior Court . - Ayres , & c THE NEW - YORK LEGAL OBSERVER . 19.
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... give to them the same interpretation . It was justly remarked by one of the coun- sel for the heirs at law , that the terms of the preamble to the act of 1784 , furnish an additional proof that the construction we have adopted ...
... give to them the same interpretation . It was justly remarked by one of the coun- sel for the heirs at law , that the terms of the preamble to the act of 1784 , furnish an additional proof that the construction we have adopted ...
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... give the same construction to the clause , as if this significant word had not been inserted , for in truth , it is only by its insertion that the prohibition in the present statute is rendered at all different from the exception in the ...
... give the same construction to the clause , as if this significant word had not been inserted , for in truth , it is only by its insertion that the prohibition in the present statute is rendered at all different from the exception in the ...
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Page 3 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God...
Page 4 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 153 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 154 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 3 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Page 199 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted. A person, with whom or in whose name, a contract is made for the benefit of another, is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 49 - That the forms of writs, executions and other process, except their style, and the forms and modes of proceeding in suits, in those of common law shall be the same as are now used in the said Courts respectively in pursuance of the Act entitled: "An Act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States...
Page 107 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 107 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United 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...
Page 260 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.