The Kentucky Law Reporter, Volume 16Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, William Cromwell, Horace C. Brannin, Thomas Robert McBeath, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon G. A. Lewis, 1895 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 165 - No county, city, town, township, board of education or school district, shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner or for any purpose exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year...
Page 349 - ... the cause of action accrued. But it is qualified by section 2619, as follows: "In actions for relief for fraud or mistake, or damages for either, the cause of action shall not be deemed to have accrued until the discovery of the fraud...
Page 320 - Whenever the death of a person shall result from an injury inflicted by negligence or wrongful act, then, in every such case, damages may be recovered for such death, from the corporations and persons so causing the same. Until otherwise provided by law, the action to recover such damages shall in all cases be prosecuted by the personal representative of the deceased person.
Page 587 - Error in thus giving and refusing instructions, and that the verdict was not sustained by sufficient evidence, and was contrary to law, were, with others, alleged as grounds for a new trial.
Page 21 - ... defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission is cured by the verdict...
Page 245 - In such case there can be no doubt of the power of the legislature to authorize a summary seizure and destruction of such instrumentalities and devices.
Page 627 - Words in a statute ought not to have a retrospective operation, unless they are so clear, strong, and imperative, that no other meaning can be annexed to them, or unless the intention of the legislature cannot be otherwise satisfied.
Page 79 - Of the parties to the action, those who are united in interest must be joined as plaintiffs or defendants; but if the consent of any one,' who should have been joined as plaintiff, cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint...
Page 432 - The party charged ; (2) the offense charged; (3) the county in which it was committed ; (4) "a statement of the acts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended ; and with such degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment, on conviction, according to the right of the case.
Page 536 - No rule in respect to the contract is better settled than this: That the party who has advanced money, or done an act in part performance of the agreement, and then stops short and refuses to proceed to its ultimate conclusion, the other party being ready and willing to proceed and fulfill all his stipulations according to the contract, will not be permitted to recover back what has thus been advanced or done.