Connecticut Reports: Containing Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, Volume 54

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Page 457 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 243 - There was no error in the judgment complained of. In this opinion the other judges concurred.
Page 145 - The good-will which has been the subject of sale is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place.
Page 349 - It was then argued that it was void, as contrary to the * 464 rules against perpetuities. These rules are to prevent, in the cases to which they apply, property from being inalienable beyond certain periods. Is this effect produced, and are these rules invaded by the transfer, in a certain event, of property from one charity to another ? If the Corporation of Reading might hold the property for certain charities in Reading, why may not the Corporation of London hold it for the charity of Christ's...
Page 455 - All courts shall be open and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.
Page 453 - I mean the due regulation and domestic order of the kingdom, whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family, are bound to conform their general behaviour to the rules of propriety, good neighborhood, and good manners ; and to be decent, industrious, and inoffensive in their respective stations.
Page 297 - The property of no person shall be taken for public use without just compensation therefor.
Page 456 - The objection to a law on the ground of its impairing the obligation of a contract can never depend upon the extent of the change which the law effects in it. Any deviation from its terms by postponing or accelerating the period of performance which it prescribes, imposing conditions not expressed in the contract, or dispensing with...
Page 251 - The attorney for the defendant requested the court to charge the jury that, if the plaintiff was not struck by the defendant's automobile, the verdict must be for the defendant.
Page 585 - ... the convenience and safety of the public travel upon said turnpike, highway or street, may require...

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