Atlantic Reporter, Volume 36West Publishing Company, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 289 - Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate.
Page 102 - Judgment according as the very Right of the Cause and Matter in Law shall appear unto them...
Page 38 - Judicial power, as contradistinguished from the power of the laws, has no existence. Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law ; and when that is discerned, it is the duty of the court to follow it.
Page 375 - But when the requisitions prescribed are intended for the protection of the citizen, and to prevent a sacrifice of his property, and by a disregard of which his rights might be and generally would be injuriously affected, they are not directory but mandatory.
Page 274 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 282 - under all the evidence in the case the verdict must be for the defendant.
Page 160 - American experience table of mortality with interest at the rate of three and one-half per cent per annum...
Page 356 - Industry," when used in this connection, to be "any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially one which employs much labor and capital, and Is a distinct branch of trade, as the sugar Industry, the iron industry, the cotton Industry.
Page 322 - That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures...
Page 101 - ... whereby and by force of the statute in such case made and provided an action hath accrued to the plaintiff...