A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary Principles of American Law

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Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896 - 467 σελίδες

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Private rights of
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Origin and nature
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SECTION PAGE 97 Free or base tenure
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Frank tenement or villenage
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Primer seizin
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CHAPTER XI
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109110 Restoration of allodial tenure
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Feesimple
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Estates for life
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Rights of life tenant
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Taxes and interest
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Rent
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Duration of tenancy
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Distress
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Apportionment of rent
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Conditional fee
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Tenancy by the curtesy
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Assignment of dower
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Estates upon condition expressed
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SECTION PAGE 138 Estates in remainder
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Rule in Shelleys Case
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Estates in reversion
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Tenancy in common
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CHAPTER XII
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Adverse possession
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Occupying claimant
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Title by devise
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153157 Wills
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Title by purchase
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Deeds by dispossessed owners
97
Form of deeds
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Guardians deeds
99
Powers of attorney
100
170172 Title by eminent domain
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Title by escheat
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CHAPTER XIII
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Burial rights
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CHAPTER XIV
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Executor
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CHAPTER XV
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Contract defined
110
Capacity of parties
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Executory or executed contracts
112
Parol contracts
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Time of contract
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Contracts of record
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CHAPTER XVI
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Infants
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Frauds of infants
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Duress
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Drunkenness
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Married women
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206209 Contracts by agents
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CHAPTER XVII
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Transfer of title
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Interpretation of contract
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Bailment
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Common carrier
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Partnership
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Formation of partnership
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220222 Dissolution of partnership
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Individual and partnership creditors
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Rights after dissolution
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CHAPTER XVIII
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Foreign and inland bills
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Duty of the holder
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Signatures and date
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Surety guarantor indorser and assignor
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Law of the place
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Capacity of parties
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CHAPTER XIX
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How interpreted
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Payment of premium
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Insurable interest
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CHAPTER XX
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Adequacy of consideration
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Release by creditors
153
Executed and executory considerations
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CHAPTER XXI
156
Promises of executors or administrators
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Debt default and miscarriage
158
Agreements in consideration of marriage
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Agreements not to be performed within a year
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Signature to memorandum
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CHAPTER XXII
164
Powers of corporations
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Charter
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Dissolution
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CHAPTER XXIII
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Remedies
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CHAPTER XXIV
171
Battery defined
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Selfdefense
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The remedies
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CHAPTER XXV
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Lawful restraint without legal process
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Lawful restraint with legal process
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Remedy
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Remedy for arrest of privileged persons
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CHAPTER XXVI
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The malicious motive
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Absence of probable cause
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Proceeding must have terminated
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Malicious prosecution of civil actions
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Remedy
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CHAPTER XXVII
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Libel and slander
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Slander imputing crime
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Slander imputing disease
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Slander of title
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Newspapers
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Publication
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Construction
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Certainty
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Malice
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Justification
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Privilege
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Legislative proceedings
202
Naval and military matters
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Matters of public interest and concern
204
Communications made under duty
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Communications made in selfdefense
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INJURIES TO CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
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Duties of the legislature
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Strikes
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359
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SECTION PAGE 367 Elements of fraud
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Representations
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Matters of law
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Matters of fact
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Materiality
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Wrongdoers intent that the representation be acted on
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Representations must have been acted on
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Damage
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CHAPTER XXX
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Nuisance defined
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Coming to a nuisance
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Intent or motive immaterial
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What may be nuisances
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Kinds of nuisance
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Elements of actionable negligence
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Inevitable accident
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No degrees in negligence
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Intoxication
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The person to whom the duty is owing
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The damage
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Legal connection
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Injured persons unlawful act
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Contributory negligence
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Plaintiffs knowledge of danger
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Persons of defective powers
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Misleading conduct
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Imputed negligenceChildren
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CHAPTER XXXII
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The law in the United States
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Owners knowledge of danger
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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Illegal marriage
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Duties and rights of husband and wife
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Divorce
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Injuries between husband and wife
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CHAPTER XXXIV
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Wrongs as between parent and child
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Wrongs by third persons
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Physical injuries to child
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Seduction
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CHAPTER XXXV
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Legal guardian
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Guardian ad litem
292
Rights of guardian and ward in each other
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CHAPTER XXXVI
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Who is a master or servant
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The contract between master and servant
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Discharge by the master
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Wrongs independent of contract
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Liability of third persons to the servant
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Servants liability for injury to others
301
Risks assumed by servant
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Servants liability to master
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CHAPTER XXXVII
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Statutory provisions
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Copyrights
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Private letters
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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Possession
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Conversion by persons rightfully in possession
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Demand for possession
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Legal process
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CHAPTER XXXIX
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Unlawful detention
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Injuries to land without dispossession
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Remedies
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The boundary line
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Lawful authority
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Effect by statute of frauds
321
Legal process
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Effect of exceeding the license
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CHAPTER XL
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Federal courts
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The senate as a court
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Exclusive jurisdiction of federal courts
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Jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals
330
Jurisdiction of the district courts
332
Jurisdiction of the court of claims
334
Jurisdiction of the court of private land claims
335
State courts
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CHAPTER XLI
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Actions how commenced
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How served and returned
340
Objections to jurisdiction
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Issues of fact and issues of law
342
Trials
343
Functions of court and jury
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Attendance of witnesses
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Hearsay evidence
347
Examination of witnesses
348
Burden of proof
349
Motions for new trial
350
Motions in arrest of judgment
351
Appeals and writs of error
352
CHAPTER XLII
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InjunctionsProhibitory and mandatory
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Administering full relief
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Suits in equityPleadings
357
Evidence on hearing
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CHAPTER XLIII
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Admiralty jurisdiction
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Admiralty procedure
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CHAPTER XLIV
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Quo warranto
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How obtained
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What application must showReturn
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Contempt
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Direct or constructive contempt
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How writ served
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Capias
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Accord and satisfaction
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Certiorari
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CHAPTER XLV
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Criminal statutesHow construed
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Aiding counseling etc
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Ignorance or mistake of fact
377
Principals liability for offense of agent
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Insanity
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Jurisdiction of crimes
380
Jurisdiction over sovereigns ambassadors etc
381
CHAPTER XLVI
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Abduction and kidnaping
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Assault
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Assault with intent
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Barratry
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Bigamy or polygamy
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SECTION PAGE 638 Burglary
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Cheating
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The agreement
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Extortion
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Forgery
393
Voluntary manslaughter
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Justifiable homicide
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Malice
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654656 Larceny
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Malicious trespass or mischief
398
Perjury
399
Piracy
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Robbery
401
Seduction
402
CHAPTER XLVII
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Validity of warrant
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Arrest by private person
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Extradition
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Examination bail etc
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Right to speedy trial
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Change of venue
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IndictmentInformation
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Pleas to indictment
412
Jury impaneling
413
Examination of witnesses
414
Special rules in criminal cases
415
Arguments of counsel
416
Conduct of juryVerdict
417
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Σελίδα 5 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Σελίδα 157 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Σελίδα 5 - Constitution disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty. If then the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the Constitution and not such ordinary act must govern the case to which they both apply.
Σελίδα 332 - ... saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it...
Σελίδα 343 - evidence." in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved.
Σελίδα 333 - The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law to be commenced by any person: (3) To redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States...
Σελίδα 152 - ... circumstances and performance of the promise will satisfy an actual or supposed or asserted duty of the promisee to the beneficiary, or a right of the beneficiary against the promisee which has been barred by the Statute of Limitations or by a discharge in bankruptcy; or which is unenforceable because of the Statute of Frauds; (c) an incidental beneficiary if neither the facts stated in Clause (a) nor those stated in Clause (b) exist.
Σελίδα 157 - ... or any interest in or concerning them; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Σελίδα 36 - ... holds possession of them, and no longer. Such (among others) are the elements of light, air and water; which a man may occupy by means of his windows, his gardens, his mills, and other conveniences...
Σελίδα 110 - A contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing.

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