The Pacific Reporter, Volume 183West Publishing Company, 1920 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 432 - A statement of the acts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended.
Page 285 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Page 69 - The Legislature shall have no power to impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other public or municipal corporations, or upon the inhabitants or property thereof, for county, city, town, or other municipal purposes, but may, by general laws, vest in the corporate authorities thereof the power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes.
Page 18 - Presentment for payment, to be sufficient, must be made: 1. By the holder, or by some person authorized to receive payment on his behalf; 2.
Page 426 - I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises ; that they are free of all incumbrances ; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said David to hold as aforesaid.
Page 17 - Where the instrument is not payable on demand presentment must be made on the day it falls due. Where it is payable on demand presentment must be made within a reasonable time after its issue, except that, in the case of a bill of exchange, presentment for payment will be sufficient if made within a reasonable time after the last negotiation thereof.
Page 92 - States, valuable chiefly for timber, but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered at public sale, according to law, ma.y be sold to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 242 - Judgment may be given, for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defendants...
Page 127 - Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State...
Page 370 - ... he has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof; that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to matters therein stated to be alleged upon information and belief, and that as to those matters he believes it to be true.