American and English Annotated Cases: Containing the Important Cases Selected from the Current American, Canadian, and English Reports, Thoroughly Annotated ... V. 1 [1901]-40 [1916B] 1916C-1918E.Edward Thompson Company, 1917 - Law |
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Page 405 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 243 - I, AB, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as , according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.
Page 369 - That for a valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements expressed in this...
Page 487 - ... in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district...
Page 138 - 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 138 - It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.
Page 138 - All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter.
Page 87 - ... it shall manifestly appear, from the tenor of the instrument, that it was intended to create an estate in joint tenancy.
Page 108 - A joint interest is one owned by two or more persons in equal shares, by a title created by a single will or transfer, when expressly declared in the will or transfer to be a joint tenancy...
Page 94 - Every estate granted or devised to two or more persons in their own right, shall be a tenancy in common, unless expressly declared to be in joint tenancy ; but every estate vested in executors or trustees as much shall be held by them in joint tenancy.