The New York Supplement, Volume 216West Publishing Company, 1926 "Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies) |
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Page 782 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 332 - ... as to all property in the custody or coming into the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor holding a lien by legal or equitable proceedings thereon...
Page 138 - ... not less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed...
Page 640 - A provision that the policy shall be incontestable after it has been in force during the lifetime of the insured for a period of two years from its date of issue, except for nonpayment of premiums...
Page 318 - ... are dependent upon contingencies or conditions whereby they may be wholly or in part created, defeated, extended or abridged, a tax shall be imposed upon...
Page 139 - And a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application, violates the first essential of due process of law.
Page 59 - Where there is a breach of warranty by the seller, the buyer may, at his election-- (a) Accept or keep the goods and set up against the seller, the breach of warranty by way of recoupment in diminution or extinction of the price...
Page 171 - At the close of the plaintiff's case, the defendant moved to dismiss the complaint, upon the ground that the plaintiff had failed to establish a cause of action by showing any negligence on the part of the defendant.
Page 139 - Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 US 385, 391, 46 S.Ct. 126, 127, 70 L.Ed. 322 (1926), the Court stated: "That the terms of a penal statute creating a new offense must be sufficiently explicit to inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties...
Page 240 - Where there are practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships in the way of carrying out the strict letter...