Albany Law Journal, Volume 31

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Weed, Parsons & Company, 1885
 

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Page 354 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 89 - But no person shall hold the office of Justice or Judge of any court longer than until and including the last day of December next, after he shall be seventy years of age.
Page 272 - Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them...
Page 199 - Justice, Sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.
Page 365 - The testator, at the time of making such subscription, or at the time of acknowledging the same, shall declare the instrument so subscribed, to be his last will and testament : 4.
Page 294 - Property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its true value.
Page 209 - It does not induce want of care. It exacts from the carrier the measure of care due to the value agreed on. The carrier is bound to respond in that value for negligence. The compensation for carriage is based on that value. The shipper is estopped from saying that the value is greater. The articles have no greater value for the purposes of the contract of transportation between the parties to that contract.
Page 306 - The material question presented in this record is whether the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the injury received by the plaintiff.
Page 154 - Louisiana, that within thirty days after the passage of this act, the Governor of the State, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint five competent persons to serve as a Board of Arbitration and Conciliation in the manner hereinafter provided.
Page 233 - People, of what Nation, Condition, or Quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses, and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment, or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...

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