Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 61 |
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Page 346 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 118 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law, a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 34 - I take the effect of repealing a statute to be, to obliterate it as completely from the records of the Parliament as if it had never passed; and it must be considered as a law that never existed, except for the purpose of those actions which were commenced, prosecuted, and concluded, whilst it was an existing law.
Page 333 - It is a general and well settled principle that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to...
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Page 478 - From the foregoing resume of the evidence in the case we are of the opinion that...