Southern Reporter, Volume 42West Publishing Company, 1907 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana. |
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Page 296 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 20 - ... no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only ; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred shall be re-enacted and published at length...
Page 92 - Canada, to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue commanding him to...
Page 291 - ... empowered and required to levy and pay to the plaintiff, as well the money so paid for rent, as the execution money.
Page 435 - To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It...
Page 144 - It Is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment appealed from be annulled, avoided, and...
Page 99 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant, were in proper condition; 2.
Page 420 - They have a right to assume that it has paid-in capital to the amount which it represents itself as having ; and if they give it credit on the faith of that representation, and if the representation is false, it is a fraud upon them ; and in case the corporation becomes insolvent, the law, upon the plainest principles of common justice, says to the delinquent stockholder, ' Make that representation good by paying for your stock.
Page 140 - The powers of the government of the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments; and each of them confided to a separate body of magistracy to wit, those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive to another, and those which are judicial to another.
Page 420 - The capital of a corporation is the basis of its credit. It is a substitute for the individual liability of those who own its stock. People deal with it and give it credit on the faith of it. They have a right to assume that it has...