Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 64

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D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1874
Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia.
 

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Página 767 - ... country, there the Court says he has no right to be assisted. It is upon that ground the Court goes; not for the sake of the defendant, but because they will not lend their aid to such a plaintiff.
Página 176 - ... the framers of the Constitution viewed with some apprehension the violent acts which might grow out of the feelings of the moment, and that the people of the United States, in adopting that instrument, have manifested a determination to shield themselves and their property from the effects of those sudden and strong passions to which men are exposed.
Página 466 - It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it.
Página 59 - Exchequer; directed to the judge and parties, of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution thereof, upon a suggestion, that either the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.
Página 79 - ... according to the law of the country in which he was domiciled at the time of his death, whether he was a British subject or not ; and the question whether he died intestate or not must be determined by the law of the same country.
Página 952 - First, that every information or indictment must contain such a description of the crime that the defendant may know what crime it is which he is called upon to answer. "Secondly, that the jury may appear to be warranted in their conclusion of guilty or not guilty.
Página 60 - The province of the court is, solely, to decide on the rights of individuals, not to enquire how the executive, or executive officers, perform duties in which they have a discretion. Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the executive, can never be made in this court.
Página 865 - The reason and philosophy of the rule is, that when the mind of the legislator has been turned to the details of a subject, and he has acted upon it, a subsequent statute in general terms, or treating the subject in a general manner, and not expressly contradicting the original act, shall not be considered as intended to affect the more particular or positive previous provisions, unless it is absolutely necessary to give the latter act such a construction, in order that its words shall have any meaning...
Página 425 - ... that the suit was properly brought in the name of the plaintiff, who would be the real owner in such case. We are therefore of opinion that there was no error in the refusal of the presiding justice to rule as requested by the defendant's counsel.
Página 938 - From the foregoing considerations we are of opinion that there was no error in the judgment of the court below, and the same is accordingly Affirmed.

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