Schuylkill Legal Record, Volume 6Chronicle Publishing Company, 1910 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes decisions of the Supreme and Superior Courts on appeal from Schuylkill County. |
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Page 118 - I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, to my beloved wife, Susie E. Smith, to have and to hold to her, my said wife, and to her heirs and assigns forever.
Page 380 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Page 339 - ... but if not, then judgment to be entered for the defendant; the costs to follow the judgment, and either party reserving the right to sue out a writ of error therein.
Page 339 - Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, no law shall extend the term of any public officer, or increase or diminish his salary or emoluments after his election or appointment...
Page 196 - ... by law authorized to fill vacancies occurring in such office, who, upon receipt of such notice, shall without delay proceed to appoint a suitable person or persons to fill the vacancies thus created, and the person or persons so appointed, shall continue in office until the next election succeeding his appointment at which such office is now by law required to be filled.
Page 380 - ... the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second degree...
Page 179 - Any person who shall, while a candidate for office, be guilty of bribery, fraud, or wilful violation of any election law, shall be forever disqualified from holding an office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth; and any person convicted of wilful violation of the election laws shall, in addition to any penalties provided by law, be deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term of four years.
Page 122 - The rule in ejectment is that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the title of his adversary.
Page 394 - All which matters and things this defendant, is ready and willing to aver, maintain, and prove, as this Honorable Court shall direct ; and he humbly prays to be hence dismissed, with his reasonable costs and charges, in this behalf most wrongfully sustained.
Page 78 - ... a matron or matrons, physician or physicians, surgeon* or surgeons, and all other attendants that may be necessary for the said poor respectively...