The Pacific Reporter, Volume 187West Publishing Company, 1920 |
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Page 287 - If, during a vacancy of the office of Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor shall be impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become incapable of performing the duties of his office, or be absent from the State, the President of the Senate shall act as Governor, until the vacancy be filled, or the disability shall cease.
Page 451 - ... with the United States system of publicland surveys, and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant ; but where placer claims can not be conformed to legal subdivisions, survey and plat shall be made as on unsurveyed lands...
Page 299 - There shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the state at the times and places of choosing members of the Legislative Assembly...
Page 287 - In case of the removal of the Governor from office, or of his death, resignation or inability to discharge the duties of the office, the same shall devolve on the...
Page 404 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.
Page 344 - The acceptor by accepting the instrument engages that he will pay it according to the tenor of his acceptance; and admits, — 1. The existence of the drawer, the genuineness of his signature, and his capacity and authority to draw the instrument, and 2. The existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse.
Page 423 - Upon a trial for murder, the commission of the homicide by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that justify or excuse it, devolves upon him, unless the proof on the part of the prosecution tends to show that the crime committed only amounts to manslaughter, or that the defendant was justifiable or excusable.
Page 402 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article. Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.
Page 477 - ... an issue of fact must be tried by a jury, unless a jury trial is waived, or a reference is ordered, as provided in this code.