Harvard Law Review, Volume 32Harvard Law Review Pub. Association, 1919 |
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... existing indebtedness only . What is said as to agreements for acceptance is but dictum . In the New York case a majority of the court upheld the letter . 61 The following is an example of this type : [ Amount ] [ Addressee ] : [ No ...
... existing indebtedness only . What is said as to agreements for acceptance is but dictum . In the New York case a majority of the court upheld the letter . 61 The following is an example of this type : [ Amount ] [ Addressee ] : [ No ...
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... existing buyer - seller contract , in which , as a mercantile con- tract , time would be an essential element , any modification as to time would thus seem to be a new contract between buyer - holder and seller - addressee to which the ...
... existing buyer - seller contract , in which , as a mercantile con- tract , time would be an essential element , any modification as to time would thus seem to be a new contract between buyer - holder and seller - addressee to which the ...
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... existing con- tract rates from the prohibition against discrimination ) . A case going much further and holding that even the commission did not have power to increase rates in spite of such a contract is Public Service Electric Co. v ...
... existing con- tract rates from the prohibition against discrimination ) . A case going much further and holding that even the commission did not have power to increase rates in spite of such a contract is Public Service Electric Co. v ...
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... existing laws , and as judge of the San Dika , the Supreme Court of Appeal , inter- preted statutes . He wrote thus of his work September 29 , 1910 : " But you know the nature of the tenure on which ( in my own mind ) I hold the post ...
... existing laws , and as judge of the San Dika , the Supreme Court of Appeal , inter- preted statutes . He wrote thus of his work September 29 , 1910 : " But you know the nature of the tenure on which ( in my own mind ) I hold the post ...
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... existing French law . " Little is known of the special training through which the true authors of this work had passed ; but in the form which it ultimately assumed , when published as the Code Napoléon , it may be described , without ...
... existing French law . " Little is known of the special training through which the true authors of this work had passed ; but in the form which it ultimately assumed , when published as the Code Napoléon , it may be described , without ...
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Page 737 - Every holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course; but when it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims acquired the title as a holder in due course.
Page 738 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 730 - On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 59 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 470 - A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends.
Page 769 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Page 943 - Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 130 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 59 - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page 527 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.