Harvard Law Review, Volume 3

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Page 63 - Her Majesty does not understand the engagements of that convention to apply to Her Majesty's settlement at Honduras, or to its dependencies." Mr. Clayton answered, in a note of July 4, acknowledging that he " understood British Honduras was not embraced in the treaty of the
Page 298 - Ins. Co., 129 US 397. The facts of the two cases were almost identical, but the Supreme Court of the United States reached the opposite result The court proceeded on the same general principle, but could see in the facts no sufficient reason for changing the ordinary rule that the law of the place where the contract is made is to govern.
Page 148 - THAYER, EZRA R. THAYER, WILLIAM G. THOMPSON. NOTICE TO THIRD-YEAR MEN. — The Harvard Law School Association offers a prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay on any of the following subjects : — I. True meaning of the term " liberty " in the clauses in the Federal and State Constitutions which protect " life, liberty, and property," considered (i) in point of principle,
Page 78 - 243. alliance for its protection, with the foreign State whose responsibilities and rights we should share, is, in my judgment, inconsistent with such dedication to universal and neutral use, and would, moreover, entail measures for its realization beyond the scope of our national polity or present means." Freeman Snow. CAMBRIDGE. STATUTORY REVISION. TMPORTANT problems in the science of law arise to-day from
Page 92 - having been requested by him in writing to retract the libellous charge or statement in as public a manner as that in which it was made, has failed to do so within a reasonable time, he shall recover nothing but such actual damages as he may have specially alleged and proved.
Page 23 - enjoyment nor the power of alienation. These conclusions are fully borne out by the authorities. " The common law was," as we read in Plowden, " that he who was out of possession might not bargain, grant, or let his right or title; and if he had done it, it should have been void.
Page 56 - DAMAGES. — The measure of damages in an action against a broker for selling his principal's stocks in violation of his orders is the highest intermediate value reached by the stocks between the time of sale and a reasonable time after the owner has received notice of it to enable him to replace the stocks.
Page 173 - if a far-coming man or a stranger journey through a wood out of the highway, and neither shout nor blow his horn, he is to be held for a thief, either to be slain or redeemed.
Page 143 - the history of the court, has been produced by no change in the opinions of those who concurred in the former judgment. . . . The court was then full, but the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Justice Grier having been subsequently filled, and an additional justice having been appointed under the act increasing the number
Page 314 - proof. The patent was for preserving fish and other articles in a close chamber by a freezing mixture having no contact with the atmosphere of the preserving chamber. The Supreme Court called to mind something which printed calendar is not to the purpose, and maybe false; and maybe there

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