Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Τόμος 105Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1907 Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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... imposed upon the defendant the positive duty of exercising the utmost good faith towards his principal . Story on Agency , §§ 207 , 214 ; Mechem on Agency , sections 454 , 455 , 456 , 469 ; Moseley's Admr . v . Buck , 3 Munf . 232 , 5 ...
... imposed upon the defendant the positive duty of exercising the utmost good faith towards his principal . Story on Agency , §§ 207 , 214 ; Mechem on Agency , sections 454 , 455 , 456 , 469 ; Moseley's Admr . v . Buck , 3 Munf . 232 , 5 ...
Σελίδα 23
... imposed as a duty . To escape liability for a nuisance created in the performance of an act author- ized by the Legislature , it must appear that the particular act com- plained of , and immunity from its consequences , were within the ...
... imposed as a duty . To escape liability for a nuisance created in the performance of an act author- ized by the Legislature , it must appear that the particular act com- plained of , and immunity from its consequences , were within the ...
Σελίδα 32
... imposed by the same charter are insisted upon in the effort to compel such corporations faithfully to perform the duties which they have assumed with respect to the public . It would be easy to multiply authorities along this line . In ...
... imposed by the same charter are insisted upon in the effort to compel such corporations faithfully to perform the duties which they have assumed with respect to the public . It would be easy to multiply authorities along this line . In ...
Σελίδα 38
... impose a duty . In the case of Fisher v . Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. , 102 Va . 363 , 46 S. E. 381 , the position of this court is well stated in the syllabus . " A railroad company , acting under authority of law , whose road is ...
... impose a duty . In the case of Fisher v . Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. , 102 Va . 363 , 46 S. E. 381 , the position of this court is well stated in the syllabus . " A railroad company , acting under authority of law , whose road is ...
Σελίδα 41
... . It must be an act which the corporation is required to perform — a duty it owes and which has been VOL . CV - 6 Opinion . imposed upon it by the legislative act granting TOWNSEND . NORFOLK RY . & L. Co. , 105 Va . 22. 41.
... . It must be an act which the corporation is required to perform — a duty it owes and which has been VOL . CV - 6 Opinion . imposed upon it by the legislative act granting TOWNSEND . NORFOLK RY . & L. Co. , 105 Va . 22. 41.
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Σελίδα 655 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Σελίδα 655 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Σελίδα 477 - That it is complete and regular upon its face. (2) That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact. (3) That he took it in good faith and for value. (4) That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Σελίδα 41 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Σελίδα 908 - The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*.
Σελίδα 149 - Where a party pays an illegal demand with a full knowledge of all the facts which render such demand illegal, without an immediate and urgent necessity therefor, or unless to release his person or property from detention, or to prevent an immediate seizure of his person or property, such payment must be deemed voluntary and cannot be recovered back. And the fact that the party at the time of making the payment files a written protest does not make the payment involuntary.
Σελίδα 475 - Where a negotiable instrument is materially altered without the assent of all parties liable thereon, it is avoided, except as against a party who has himself made, authorized, or assented to the alteration, and subsequent indorsers. But when an instrument has been materially altered and is in the hands of a holder in due course, not a party to the alteration, he may enforce payment thereof according to its original tenor.
Σελίδα 477 - A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions : 1. That it is complete and regular on its face. 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact. 3. That he took it in good faith and for value. 4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or...
Σελίδα 249 - The question whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
Σελίδα 113 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.