Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 41Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1905 - Law reports, digests, etc |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accident action alleged appears appliances applied Asso authority Bank Bingham School brakeman caused chap charge Chicago cited Cloquet river common law competent condition Conn Constitution construction contract corporation County court court of equity creditors damages danger defect defendant defendant's demurrer doctrine duty election employed employee engine evidence exercise fact fellow servant fendant flour furnished held husband incompetency injury inspection Iowa judgment jury knowledge land legislative legislature letters testamentary liable machinery mandamus marriage Mass master ment mill Minn Minneapolis negligence notice nuisance Ohio St opinion ordinary owner parties Pennsylvania Co person plaintiff plaintiff in error proper purpose question railroad company reasonable recover repair Robert Bingham rule safe Stat statute stream street Teleg tion track trust U. S. App wife William Bingham
Popular passages
Page 207 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state.
Page 245 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 404 - The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation ; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be specially exempted by law.
Page 245 - That nothing in this Act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page 157 - This entire policy shall be void if the insured has concealed or misrepresented, in writing or otherwise, any material fact or circumstance concerning this insurance or the subject thereof...
Page 35 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 245 - ... or the issuance of mileage, excursion, or commutation passenger tickets; nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to municipal governments for the transportation of indigent persons, or to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of Soldiers
Page 198 - Democratic legislature to make the test at a primary election a belief in the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one...
Page 231 - Union soldiers and sailors, shall be preferred for appointment and employment ; age, loss of limb or other physical impairment which does not, in fact, incapacitate, shall not be deemed to disqualify them, provided they possess the business capacity necessary to discharge the duties of the position involved.
Page 178 - ... Legislature by the Constitution, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the Constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same. It is much easier to perceive and realize the existence and sources of this power than to mark its boundaries, or prescribe limits to its exercise.