Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 31Bancroft-Whitney, 1906 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 85 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Page 455 - In all other cases the defendant may be found guilty of any offense, the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment.
Page 256 - 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 debts by such municipal corporations.
Page 341 - Courts; also, in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real estate, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, or in which the demand, exclusive of interest, or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three hundred dollars...
Page 194 - Jones a certain tract or parcel of Land lying and being in the County of Franklin on the Waters of Nicholas Creek, containing three hundred and twenty two acres, more or less...
Page 353 - In case of publication, the court or judge must also direct a copy of the summons and complaint to be forthwith deposited in the post office, directed to the person to be served, at his place of residence...
Page 247 - Fund ; and any court having cognizance of any proceedings in relation thereto may order the same to be applied accordingly, and where the effects forfeited do not consist of money, may order the same to be sold, and the proceeds of the sale to be applied in manner aforesaid. 379.
Page 176 - An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the 'swamp lands
Page 554 - No man's particular services shall be demanded without just compensation. No man's property shall be taken by law without just compensation; nor, except in case of the State, without such compensation first assessed and tendered.
Page 726 - So an agreement in writing to give a mortgage, or a mortgage defectively executed, or an imperfect attempt to create a mortgage, or to appropriate specific property to the discharge of a particular debt, will create a mortgage in equity, or a specific equitable lien on the property intended to be mortgaged: Daggett v.