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... delays , and expensive to the public and parties litigant . In looking for the cause of these evils , so loudly and so justly com- plained of , your committee have come to the conclusion that they are attributable to the fact , that ...
... delays , and expensive to the public and parties litigant . In looking for the cause of these evils , so loudly and so justly com- plained of , your committee have come to the conclusion that they are attributable to the fact , that ...
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... delays of our present system . In making these estimates , we will take the population of Michi- gan as it stood in 1840 , viz : 212,000 in round numbers ; and as our calculations are based , in a great measure , on statistics gleaned ...
... delays of our present system . In making these estimates , we will take the population of Michi- gan as it stood in 1840 , viz : 212,000 in round numbers ; and as our calculations are based , in a great measure , on statistics gleaned ...
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... delay . They incurred the costs merely as usury . In 330 cases per annum , which did not go to a jury , in addition to other costs , the defendant usually paid an attorney 10 or $ 20 for getting the suit put off or delayed , be- fore ...
... delay . They incurred the costs merely as usury . In 330 cases per annum , which did not go to a jury , in addition to other costs , the defendant usually paid an attorney 10 or $ 20 for getting the suit put off or delayed , be- fore ...
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... delays in litigation are still more blighting to the prosperity of the country , than those enormous costs . That if the real damage to the country , from the laws ' delay , were properly estimated in dollars , it would fully equal all ...
... delays in litigation are still more blighting to the prosperity of the country , than those enormous costs . That if the real damage to the country , from the laws ' delay , were properly estimated in dollars , it would fully equal all ...
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... delay , and yet , the bare men- tion of a half mill tax in our legislative halls , even for the holy pur- poses of ... delays so ruinous and costs so enormous can- not be referred to for the laudible purpose of remedying these appaling ...
... delay , and yet , the bare men- tion of a half mill tax in our legislative halls , even for the holy pur- poses of ... delays so ruinous and costs so enormous can- not be referred to for the laudible purpose of remedying these appaling ...
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Page 2 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 47 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book— left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 2 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 1 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers ! for ye lade men with burdens, grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Page 38 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Page 38 - ... all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in, and to the same, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.
Page 11 - Mr. Nesmith, from the committee on judiciary, to whom was referred that portion of the governor's message relating to the erection of a jail, reported they deemed it inexpedient in the present embarrassed condition of finance, to incur the expense of a jail.
Page 3 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Page 38 - ... have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey and confirm...
Page 6 - But if the public interest can be in any way promoted by the taking of private property, it must rest in the wisdom of the legislature to determine whether the benefit to the public will be of sufficient importance to render it expedient for them to exercise the right of eminent domain, and to authorize an interference with the private rights of individuals for that purpose (2 Kent's Com.