Hildreth's Massachusetts Digest, Volume 2Walter Alexander Ladd Massachusetts Digest Associates, Incorporated, 1922 - Annotations and citations (Law) |
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Page 187 - In the case of a contract to sell or a sale of a specified article under its patent or other trade name, there is no implied warranty as to its fitness for any particular purpose.
Page 151 - ... for the consequences, even if the other was guilty of negligence or other fault in connection with the causes which led to the injury. The difference in rules applicable to the two classes of cases results from the difference in the nature of the conduct of the wrongdoers in the two kinds of cases. In the first case the wrongdoer is guilty of nothing worse than carelessness. In the last he is guilty of a wilful, intentional wrong. His conduct is criminal or quasi criminal. If it results in the...
Page 56 - In the absence of a fraudulent purpose in the organization of a corporation, it is settled law in this commonwealth that the ownership of all the stock and the absolute control of the affairs of a corporation do not make that corporation and that individual owner identical. Nor do such ownership and control make the property of the corporation subject to the payment of the stockholders' debts," nor subject the corporation to liability upon contracts which it has neither executed nor assumed.
Page 44 - Advertising on public ways, in public places and on private property within public view may be regulated and restricted by law.
Page 26 - ... riding as a passenger on a passenger train, and inside a passenger car thereof, which train or car was propelled by steam power, ' that the amount to be paid "shall not exceed $10,000.
Page 28 - Except where an indorsement bears date after the maturity of the instrument, every negotiation is deemed prima facie to have been effected before the instrument was overdue. Sec. 46 Except where the contrary appears, every indorsement is presumed prima facie to have been made at the place where the instrument is dated.
Page 89 - A declaration of a deceased person shall not be inadmissible in evidence as hearsay if the court finds that it was made in good faith before the commencement of the action and upon the personal knowledge of the declarant.
Page 221 - ... merely to the impeachment of the accuracy or credibility of the witness. A fair and full cross-examination to develop facts in issue or relevant to the issue is a matter of absolute right and is not a mere privilege to be exercised at the sound discretion of the presiding judge, and the denial of the right is prejudicial error.
Page 139 - The aldermen and selectmen respectively shall insert in the warrant for the annual municipal election or town meeting, an article providing for a vote upon the question, Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this city (or town) ? The vote shall be by separate ballot ; and the Ballot shall be ' Yes ' or ' No,' in answer to said question, and in taking said vote the check list shall be used.
Page 60 - ... the difference between the contract price and what it would have cost the plaintiffs to manufacture and deliver the lumber according to the terms of the contract.