The Michigan Digest Annotated: Embodying All Reported Decisions from the Earliest Period Down to Volume 202 Michigan, Inclusive. Being a New Edition of Jacobs & Chaney, Volume 3Callaghan & Company, 1920 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 2210 - ... no man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land...
Page 2508 - The vital principle is that he who by his language or conduct, leads another to do what he would not otherwise have done, shall not subject such person to loss or injury by disappointing the expectations upon which he acted. Such a change of position is sternly forbidden. It involves fraud and falsehood, and the law abhors both.
Page 2464 - The executor or administrator shall be allowed all necessary expenses in the care, management, and settlement of the estate...
Page 2405 - ... judge necessary for their maintenance during the progress of the settlement of the estate, according to their circumstances, which in case of an insolvent estate shall not be longer than one year after granting administration, nor for any time after the dower and personal estate shall be assigned to the widow.
Page 2428 - If the claim of any person shall accrue or become absolute at any time after the time limited for creditors to present their claims, the person .having such claim may present it to the probate court, and prove the same at any time within one year after it shall accrue or become absolute...
Page 2209 - More accurately, it is the rightful authority, which exists in every sovereignty, to control and regulate those rights of a public nature which pertain to its citizens in common, and to appropriate and control individual property for the public benefit, as the public safety, necessity, convenience, or welfare may demand.
Page 2503 - This estoppel arises when one by his acts, representations, or admissions, or by his silence when he ought to speak out, intentionally or through culpable negligence induces another to believe certain facts to exist and such other rightfully relies and acts on such belief, so that he will be prejudiced if the former is permitted to deny the existence of such facts.
Page 2636 - Where, in an action against a railway company for the negligent killing of a...
Page 2186 - If you wish to vote for a candidate not on any ticket, write or place the name of such candidate on your ticket opposite the name of the office.
Page 2379 - ... 2. If the widow or next of kin, or the person selected by them, shall be unsuitable or incompetent, or if the widow or next of kin shall neglect, for thirty days after the death of the intestate, to apply for administration, or to request that administration be granted to some other person, the same may be granted to one or more of the principal creditors, if any such are competent and willing to take it ; 3.