Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 234 |
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Page 252 - No suit or action on this policy for the recovery of any claim shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements, nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 553 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
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Page 166 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 423 - The general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of this state may receive a good common school education.
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Page 567 - In every case involving actionable negligence, there are necessarily three elements essential to Its existence: (1) The existence of a duty on the part of the defendant to protect the plaintiff from the injury of which he complains; (2) a failure by the defendant to perform that duty ; and (3) an injury to the plaintiff from such failure of the defendant. When these elements are brought together, they unitedly constitute actionable negligence. The absence of any one of these elements renders a complaint...
Page 417 - No officer or employee in the classified civil service of any city who shall have been appointed under said rules and after said examination, shall be removed or discharged except for cause, upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense.
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Page 317 - These laws are general and uniform, not because they operate upon every person in the state, for they do not, but because every person who is brought within the relation and circumstances provided for is affected by the law.