The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 13Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1890 |
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... defects in the warrant on which the extradition proceedings were based , it appearing that the petitioner was held in custody by virtue of a capias issued on an indictment since found for the same offense , and that the executive ...
... defects in the warrant on which the extradition proceedings were based , it appearing that the petitioner was held in custody by virtue of a capias issued on an indictment since found for the same offense , and that the executive ...
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... defective as to confer no jurisdiction on any of the officers in whose custody the prisoner has been detained . The ... defect is juris- dictional , and may be ascertained and declared by the inves- tigating tribunal , on an application ...
... defective as to confer no jurisdiction on any of the officers in whose custody the prisoner has been detained . The ... defect is juris- dictional , and may be ascertained and declared by the inves- tigating tribunal , on an application ...
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... defects of title under the admitted facts of the case are cured by the presumptions arising from the lapse of twenty years , under the broad doctrine of prescription now so thoroughly estab- lished in this state . The plaintiffs ...
... defects of title under the admitted facts of the case are cured by the presumptions arising from the lapse of twenty years , under the broad doctrine of prescription now so thoroughly estab- lished in this state . The plaintiffs ...
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... DEFECTIVE CONVEYANCE OF , DENIED . The officer's certificate of the wife's acknowledgment to a conveyance of the homestead by husband and wife is substantially de- fective in omitting to certify her examination and acknowledgment in the ...
... DEFECTIVE CONVEYANCE OF , DENIED . The officer's certificate of the wife's acknowledgment to a conveyance of the homestead by husband and wife is substantially de- fective in omitting to certify her examination and acknowledgment in the ...
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... defective certificate of acknowledgment , or to compel the specific performance of an agreement to convey by a mar ... defect : Balkum v . Wood , 58 Ala . 642. The constitution and statute have reference to some mode of alienation by ...
... defective certificate of acknowledgment , or to compel the specific performance of an agreement to convey by a mar ... defect : Balkum v . Wood , 58 Ala . 642. The constitution and statute have reference to some mode of alienation by ...
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Page 502 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.
Page 126 - The powers of the government of the state of California shall be divided into three separate departments: the legislative, the executive, and judicial; and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except in the cases hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Page 126 - All other officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, and all officers whose offices may hereafter be created by law, shall be elected by the people, or appointed, as the Legislature may direct.
Page 552 - ... of this company indorsed hereon, . . . then, and in every such case, this policy shall be void.
Page 172 - ... the possession of one tenant in common is the possession of all...
Page 202 - ... was made with the intent to hinder, delay, and defraud the creditors of said...
Page 717 - ... the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of the title of the defendant.
Page 407 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Page 275 - A married woman, while the marriage relation subsists, may bargain, sell and convey her real and personal property and enter into any contract with reference to the same in the same manner, to the same extent and with like effect as a married man may in relation to his real and personal property.
Page 635 - Is it an interest in the subject on which the power is to be exercised, or is it an interest in that which is produced by the exercise of the power? We hold it to be clear that the interest which can protect a power after the death of a person who creates it, must be an interest in the thing itself. In other words, the power must be engrafted on an estate in the thing. The words themselves would seem to import this meaning. "A power coupled with an interest...