North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Volume 104Nichols & Gorman, book and job printers, 1890 Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. |
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Page 722 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 445 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 716 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free State, and ought not to be allowed.
Page 716 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of Magistrate, Legislator, or Judge, to be hereditary.
Page 65 - In common law causes in the Circuit and' District Courts- the plaintiff shall be entitled to similar remedies, by attachment or other process, against the property of the defendant, which are now provided by the laws of the State in which such court is held, for the courts thereof...
Page 337 - In the construction of a pleading for the purpose of determining its effect, its allegations shall be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between the parties.
Page 744 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 97 - ... upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment, order, or other proceeding, taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect...
Page 927 - All motions to the court shall be reduced to writing, and shall contain a brief statement of the facts and objects of the motion.
Page 655 - ... that the plaintiff recover of the defendant the sum of two hundred dollars, and the costs of this action, to be taxed by the Clerk.