Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Livro 48

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Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1900

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Página 101 - A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.
Página 172 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Página 415 - An officer de facto is one who has the reputation of being the officer he assumes to be, and yet is not a good officer in point of law.
Página 267 - The liberty mentioned in that amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper,...
Página 115 - The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.
Página 124 - No conveyance, assignment, or transfer of any property of any such corporation by it or by any officer, director, or stockholder thereof, nor any payment made, judgment suffered, lien created, or security given by it or by any...
Página 237 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Página 186 - The defendant may set forth by answer as many defenses and counterclaims as he may have, whether they be such as have been heretofore denominated legal or equitable, or both.
Página 323 - This is a matter of common knowledge, and "courts will generally take notice of whatever ought to be generally known within the limits of their jurisdiction.
Página 173 - Knowledge, learning, and virtue being essential to the preservation of republican institutions, and the diffusion of the opportunities and advantages of education throughout the different portions of the State being highly conducive to the promotion of this end, it shall be the duty of the general assembly, in all future periods of this government, to cherish literature and science.

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