Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 177Bancroft-Whitney, 1919 |
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Page 327 - ... made or Intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...
Page 83 - Whenever this Company shall pay the mortgagee [or trustee] any sum for loss or damage under this policy and shall claim that, as to the mortgagor or owner, no liability therefor existed...
Page vi - Justice of the Court when so convened. The concurrence of four Justices present at the argument shall be necessary to pronounce a judgment in bank; but if four Justices, so present, do not concur in a judgment, then all the Justices qualified to sit in the cause shall hear the argument; but to render a judgment a concurrence of four Judges shall be necessary. In the determination of causes, all decisions of the Court in bank or in departments shall be given in writing, and the grounds of the decision...
Page 346 - Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon a particular day, which day falls upon a holiday, such act may be performed upon the next business day with the same effect as if it had been performed upon the day appointed.
Page 109 - ... a person who makes, alters, or repairs any article of personal property, at the request of the owner, or legal possessor of the property...
Page 591 - To Have and to Hold the said premises to the said party of the second part her heirs and assigns to the sole and proper benefits and behoof of the said party of the Second Part her heirs and assigns forever.
Page 64 - The defendant appeals from the judgment and from an order denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs delivered to defendant for -storage certain household goods, to be stored in defendant's warehouse.
Page 839 - ... that any transfer or encumbrance of property made or given voluntarily, or without a valuable consideration, by a party while insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, shall be fraudulent, and void as to existing creditors.
Page 226 - Pac. 1000], it was again held that the provision of section 726 of the Code of Civil Procedure, that there can be but one action for the recovery of a debt secured by mortgage, namely, a suit to foreclose, refers solely to debts secured by mortgages in the state of California.
Page 252 - An offer of payment or other performance, duly made, though the title to the thing offered be not transferred to the creditor, stops the running of interest on the obligation, and has the same effect upon all its incidents as a performance thereof.