The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 63

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West Publishing Company, 1895
 

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Page 256 - ... during the marriage or afterwards, be, without the consent of the other, examined as to any communication made by one to the other during the marriage; but this exception does not apply to a civil action or proceeding by one against the other, nor to a criminal action or proceeding for a crime committed by one against the other; 2.
Page 368 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Page 54 - ... road or street, under a penalty of fifty dollars for every neglect, to be paid by the corporation owning the railroad...
Page 313 - No law shall be revised, altered or amended by reference to its title only; but the act revised and the section or sections of the act altered or amended shall be re-enacted and published at length.
Page 434 - Judicial officers of cities and villages shall be elected, and all other officers shall be elected or appointed at such time and in such manner as the legislature may direct.
Page 293 - The Legislature shall establish but one system of town and county government, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable.
Page 143 - An order affecting a substantial right in an action, when such order in effect determines the action and prevents a judgment, and' an order affecting a substantial right made in a special proceeding, or upon a summary application in an action after judgment, is a final order which may be vacated, modified or reversed, as provided in this title.
Page 52 - ... whenever the questions of discipline or of faith, or ecclesiastical rule, custom or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final, and as binding on them, in their application to the case before them.
Page 54 - A bell of at least thirty pounds weight or a steam whistle shall be placed on each locomotive engine, and shall be rung or whistled at the distance of at least eighty rods from the place where the said railroad shall cross any other road or street, and be kept ringIng or whistling until it shall have crossed said road or street...
Page 277 - Swan became insolvent and made an assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors...

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