South-western Law Journal and Reporter, Τόμος 1Dennis, 1844 |
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Σελίδα 268 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Σελίδα 246 - It is the constant aim of a court of equity to do complete justice by deciding upon and settling the rights of all persons interested...
Σελίδα 101 - Every person who shall feloniously steal the property of an.nuihor.tato. other, in any other state or country, and shall bring the same into this state, may be convicted and punished, in the same manner as if such larceny had been committed in this state ; and in every such case, such larceny may be charged to have been committed in any town or city, into or through which, such stolen property shall have- been brought; Formomo- «5 5.
Σελίδα 40 - ... impairs it. The manner or degree, in which this change is effected, can in no respect influence the conclusion ; for whether the law affect the validity, the construction, the duration, the discharge, or the evidence of the contract, it impairs its obligation, though it may not do so to the same extent in all the supposed cases.
Σελίδα 206 - I understand the rule, as now already settled, to be, that where the contract grows immediately out of, and is connected with an illegal or immoral act, a court of justice will not lend its aid to enforce it. And if the contract be in part only connected with the illegal transaction, and growing immediately out of it, though it be in fact a new contract, it is equally tainted by it.
Σελίδα 147 - After verdict for the plaintiff, the defendant moved in arrest of judgment...
Σελίδα 206 - Rep. 258, it was decided, that where a contract grows immediately out of, and is connected with an illegal or immoral act, a court of justice will not lend its aid to enforce it.
Σελίδα 147 - This is an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff against the...
Σελίδα 161 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Σελίδα 184 - The party assaulted must therefore flee as far as he conveniently can, either by reason of some wall, ditch, or other impediment, or as far as the fierceness of the assault will permit him, for it may be so fierce as not to allow him to yield a step without manifest danger of his life or enormous bodily harm, and then in his defence he may kill his assailant instantly. And this is the doctrine of universal justice as well as of the municipal law.