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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Page 57
... such statute , is void ; especially if it appears that the object of the legislature was for police purposes , and not solely for the purpose of raising revenue ; or in other words Dec. 1888. ] 57 DUDLEY v . Collier .
... such statute , is void ; especially if it appears that the object of the legislature was for police purposes , and not solely for the purpose of raising revenue ; or in other words Dec. 1888. ] 57 DUDLEY v . Collier .
Page 118
... LEGISLATURE that every act required to be done in the enactment of a law has been done . There- fore , a statute cannot be avoided by proving that such journals failed to mention some act which the constitution commands to be done in ...
... LEGISLATURE that every act required to be done in the enactment of a law has been done . There- fore , a statute cannot be avoided by proving that such journals failed to mention some act which the constitution commands to be done in ...
Page 119
... legislature , and passed as senate bill No. 194 , which said bill was put upon its final passage in the assembly after it had been amended in its title , and in all its sections save section 5 , and before and without being printed with ...
... legislature , and passed as senate bill No. 194 , which said bill was put upon its final passage in the assembly after it had been amended in its title , and in all its sections save section 5 , and before and without being printed with ...
Page 120
... legislature are required to keep journals of their pro- ceedings , every act not shown by such journals to have taken place must be presumed not to have been done . His position cannot be upheld by reason or authority . It is uniformly ...
... legislature are required to keep journals of their pro- ceedings , every act not shown by such journals to have taken place must be presumed not to have been done . His position cannot be upheld by reason or authority . It is uniformly ...
Page 121
... legislature referred to in the foregoing opinion is unconstitutional , are , in my judgment , correctly dis- posed of adversely to such contention in the case of Supervisors of Schuyler County v . People , 25 Ill . 181 ( 163 ) . The ...
... legislature referred to in the foregoing opinion is unconstitutional , are , in my judgment , correctly dis- posed of adversely to such contention in the case of Supervisors of Schuyler County v . People , 25 Ill . 181 ( 163 ) . The ...
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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...