Hawaii Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii, Volume 20Bulletin Publishing Company, 1912 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action adverse possession Ahlo alleged amended appeal ARGUED assumpsit attorney authority ballots bill BOLT Brewer & Co Campbell cause champerty charge Chong circuit court circuit judge City and County claim common law contract counsel County of Honolulu COURT BY PERRY court of equity DECIDED decision declaration decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer election equity error evidence EXCEPTIONS FROM CIRCUIT execution fact fee simple fendant filed granted ground Hackfeld Haleakala HARTWELL held Honolulu instructions intended interest issue judgment jurisdiction jurors jury Kahua Kaneohe Ranch land lease legislature license lien Lucas Magoon Maui ment mortgage motion opinion overruled owner paid parties payment person petition petitioner plaintiff possession premises proceedings question quiet title reason referred ROBERTSON rule sewer statute suit sustained Territory of Hawaii tion trustee validity verdict W. W. Thayer Wailuku witness writ
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Page 251 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 43 - State, or any interest therein, or income therefrom, which shall be transferred by deed, grant, sale, or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor or bargainer, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after such death, to any person or persons, or to any body politic or corporate, in trust or otherwise...
Page 501 - A contract of two or more competent persons, to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.
Page 537 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
Page 74 - The dwellings, manufactories, warehouses and shops of the subjects of each of the contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto destined for purposes of residence or commerce, shall be respected. || It shall not be allowable to proceed to make a search of, or a...
Page 642 - ... to its rules concerning the holding, the transfer, liability to obligations, private or public, and the modes of establishing titles thereto. It cannot bring the person of a nonresident within its limits — its process goes not out beyond its borders — but it may determine the extent of his title to real estate within its limits ; and, for the purpose of such determination, may provide any reasonable methods of imparting notice.
Page 111 - Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of faro...
Page 308 - Any elector of a county, city and county, city or any political subdivision of either, may contest the right of any person declared elected to an office to be exercised therein, for any of the following causes : "1. For malconduct on the part of the board of judges, or any member thereof.
Page 43 - When the transfer is of property made by a resident or by a nonresident when such nonresident's property is within this state, by deed, grant, bargain, sale or gift made in contemplation of the death of the grantor, vendor or donor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after such death.
Page 301 - But if, as in most cases, the statute, simply provides that certain acts or things shall be done within a particular time or in a particular manner, and does not declare that their performance is essential to the validity of the election, then they will be regarded as mandatory if they do, and directory if they do not, affect the actual merits of the election.