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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaction agent agreed agreement Allen amended by St amount appears automobile bill of lading bond Boston Elevated Railway Braley caused charge city of Boston Colony Street Commonwealth Company condition contended contract corporation Courcy Crosby damages death deceased declaration DeCourcy decree deed defendant defendant's duty employed employee employment equity evidence Exceptions overruled executors exercise of due facts February 27 feet fendant finding Hammond held highway horse indorser Industrial Accident Board intestate issue January 15 judge judgment jury land lessee liability license lien Loring Mass ment mortgage motorman negligence numbered opinion ordered a verdict owner paid parties payment personal injuries petitioners plain plaintiff premises Present promissory note purchaser question real estate reason received refused request Rugg rule Sheldon statement statute Street Railway Suffolk Superior Court surety sustained testator testified testimony thereof tiff tion tort trial trust warrant Writ dated Popular passagesPage 236 - In the event of the death of one or more of the plaintiffs or of one or more of the defendants in an action in which the right sought to be enforced survives only to the surviving plaintiffs or only against the surviving defendants, the action does not abate. The death shall be suggested upon the record and the action shall proceed in favor of or... Page 465 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery. Page 611 - Each branch of the Legislature, as well as the Governor and Council, shall have authority to require the opinions of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, upon important questions of law, and upon solemn occasions. Page 405 - An agreement for the sale of goods, chattels, or things in action, at a price not less than two hundred dollars, unless the buyer accept and receive part of such goods and chattels, or the evidences, or some of them, of such things in action, or pay at the time some part of the purchase money... Page 464 - As between immediate parties, and as regards a remote party other than a holder in due course, the delivery, in order to be effectual, must be made either by or under the authority of the party making, drawing, accepting, or indorsing, as the case may be; and in such case the delivery may be shown to have been conditional. or for a special purpose only, and not for the purpose of transferring the property in the instrument. Page 51 - ... premiums shall have been paid, the annuity shall automatically become converted into a paid-up annuity for such proportion of the original annuity as the number of completed years' premiums paid bears to the total number of premiums required under the contract. Page 29 - The gist of the liability consists in the fact that the person injured did not act merely for his own convenience and pleasure, and from motives to which no act or sign of the owner or occupant contributed, but that he entered the premises because he was led to believe fhat they were intended to be used by visitors or passengers, and that such use was not only acquiesced in by the owner or person in possession... Page 88 - Every person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written... Page 179 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person... Page 231 - Legislature has done is to provide (1) that "personal property held in trust by an executor, administrator or trustee, the income of which is payable to another person, shall be assessed to the executor, administrator or trustee in the city or town in which such other person resides, if within the commonwealth," and if he resides out of the commonwealth, in the place where the trustee resides (St. Bibliographic information
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