Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Volume 87

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Page 451 - ... the governors of the college of the province of New- York, in the city of New- York, in America...
Page 321 - The action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant. The...
Page 231 - The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred.
Page 453 - SOCIETY, and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto...
Page 284 - There shall be prepared under the direction and supervision of the commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city of New York...
Page 280 - All money, pay, compensation or salary, or any part thereof, forfeited, deducted or withheld from any teacher or teachers for and on account of absence from duty for any cause.
Page 283 - Where the holder of an instrument payable to his order transfers it for value without indorsing it, the transfer vests in the transferee such title as the transferor had therein, and the transferee acquires, in addition, the right to have the indorsement of the transferor. But for the purpose of determining whether the transferee is a holder in due course, the negotiation takes effect as of the time when the indorsement is actually made.
Page 329 - O'BRIEN, J. The plaintiffs in this action sought to recover damages for the breach of a contract for the sale and delivery of a quantity of apples.
Page 103 - ... be affected by any settlement between the parties before or after judgment or final order. The court upon the petition of the client or attorney may determine and enforce the lien.
Page 499 - ... then this obligation to be null and void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law.

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