The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 15West Publishing Company, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... witness cannot testify as to his understanding of a matter . When a witness is present in court his deposition cannot be read in evidence except to impeach him after the proper foundation has been laid . Where the instructions given by ...
... witness cannot testify as to his understanding of a matter . When a witness is present in court his deposition cannot be read in evidence except to impeach him after the proper foundation has been laid . Where the instructions given by ...
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... witness is here in court and there- fore the deposition is not admissible . Then it could not have been used only to impeach the witness after the proper foundation had been laid . " The depo- sition of any witness may be used only in ...
... witness is here in court and there- fore the deposition is not admissible . Then it could not have been used only to impeach the witness after the proper foundation had been laid . " The depo- sition of any witness may be used only in ...
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... witness in respect to any transaction or communication by him personally with an agent of the adverse party , * * * when such agent is dead or insane , or otherwise legally incompetent as a witness , unless the opposite party shall be ...
... witness in respect to any transaction or communication by him personally with an agent of the adverse party , * * * when such agent is dead or insane , or otherwise legally incompetent as a witness , unless the opposite party shall be ...
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... witnesses . If the de- fendant offered such deposition on his own part , he so far makes the deceased agent his own witness , and cannot thereby remove his own disability as a witness in the case . The following questions were put to ...
... witnesses . If the de- fendant offered such deposition on his own part , he so far makes the deceased agent his own witness , and cannot thereby remove his own disability as a witness in the case . The following questions were put to ...
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... Witness the hands and seals of the parties , the day and year first above written . JOHN CONSTANTINE WILLIAMS , Sr. [ Seal . ] PETER B. IVES . EXHIBIT A. [ Seal . ] Whereas , John C. Williams is about to place an elevator in the ...
... Witness the hands and seals of the parties , the day and year first above written . JOHN CONSTANTINE WILLIAMS , Sr. [ Seal . ] PETER B. IVES . EXHIBIT A. [ Seal . ] Whereas , John C. Williams is about to place an elevator in the ...
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Page 615 - All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people, and they have the right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it.
Page 393 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal; and interest is to be Computed on the balance, as aforesaid.
Page 626 - Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either House of the General Assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas...
Page 625 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon...
Page 5 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings which shall not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party, and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 285 - This riparian right is property, and is valuable, and though it must be enjoyed in due subjection to the rights of the public, it cannot be arbitrarily or capriciously destroyed or impaired.
Page 317 - ... not sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 604 - Whether the party thus misrepresenting a fact, knew it to be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively false.
Page 542 - ... repair, such township, village, city or corporation shall be liable to and shall pay to the person or persons so injured or disabled just damages, to be recovered in an action of trespass on the case before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 202 - ... the corporation shall not be liable for any such damages, unless negligently or willfully done...