The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 107West Publishing Company, 1908 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 322 - ... if any change other than by the death of an insured, take place in the interest, title or possession of the subject of insurance (except change of occupants without increase of hazard) whether by legal process or judgment or by voluntary act of the insured, or otherwise...
Page 396 - No tax shall be levied, except in pursuance of law ; and every law imposing a tax, shall state, distinctly, the object of the same, to which only, it shall be applied.
Page 284 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 136 - On the death of the husband or wife, or both, the homestead shall descend and vest In like manner as other real property of the deceased, and shall be governed by the same laws of descent and distribution, but It shall not be partitioned among the heirs of the deceased during the lifetime of the surviving husband or wife, or so long as the survivor may elect to use or Occupy the same as a homestead...
Page 384 - A constitutional provision may be said to be self-executing if it supplies a sufficient rule by means of which the right given may be enjoyed and protected, or the duty imposed may be enforced...
Page 173 - ... in the same manner and with like effect, in all respects, as actions founded upon contract.
Page 425 - ... by parol, and not put in writing, and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 382 - It shall be a crime, the nature and punishment of which shall be prescribed by law, for any president, director, manager, cashier or other officer of any banking institution, to assent to the reception of deposits, or the creation of debts by such banking institution, after he shall have had knowledge of the fact that it is insolvent, or in failing circumstances ; and any such officer, agent or manager, shall be individually responsible for such deposits so received, and all such debts so created...
Page 138 - No mortgage, trust deed, or other lien on the homestead shall ever be valid, except for the purchase money therefor, or improvements made thereon, as hereinbefore provided, whether such mortgage, or trust deed, or other lien, shall have been created by the husband alone, or together with his wife; and all pretended sales of the homestead involving any condition of defeasance shall be void.
Page 284 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, 1. e., according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been In the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of It...