Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, Volume 16

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Bancroft-Whitney, 1912 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 623 - ... obligation shall be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 291 - The court may determine any controversy between the parties before it, when it can be done without prejudice to the rights of others, or by saving their rights, but when a complete determination of the controversy cannot be had without the presence of other parties, the court must cause them to be brought in.
Page 342 - If the homestead selected by the husband and wife, or either of them, during their coverture, and recorded while both were living, was selected from the community property, or from the separate property of the person selecting or joining in the selection of the same, it vests, on the death of the husband or wife, absolutely in the survivor.
Page 574 - An action for relief on the ground of fraud or mistake must be brought within four years after the cause of action accrues ; the cause of action in such case not to be deemed to have accrued until the discovery, by the aggrieved party, of the facts constituting the fraud or mistake.
Page 555 - A voluntary acceptance of the benefit of a transaction is equivalent to a consent to all the obligations arising from it, so far as the facts are known, or ought to be known, to the person accepting.
Page 678 - The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and the jury fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the state prison for the term of his natural life.
Page 160 - When a person affixes his property to the land of another, without an agreement permitting him to remove it, the thing affixed, except as provided in section ten hundred and nineteen, belongs to the owner of the land, unless he chooses to require the former to remove it.
Page 10 - ... 1. That previous to the time of the execution of such conveyance, the grantor has not conveyed the same estate, or any right, title, or interest therein, to any person other than the grantee; 2. That such estate is at the time of the execution of such conveyance free from incumbrances done, made, or suffered by the grantor, or any person claiming under him. Such covenants may be sued upon in the same manner as if they had been expressly inserted in the conveyance.
Page 271 - Every idle, or lewd, or dissolute person, or associate of known thieves ; or, 6. Every person who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night, without any visible or lawful business; or, 7. Every person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel, or place other than such as is kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner or party entitled to the possession thereof ; or, 8.
Page 124 - A malicious and guilty intent, from the deliberate commission of an unlawful act, for the purpose of injuring another; 2. The truth of the facts recited, from the recital in a written instrument between the parties thereto, or their successors in interest by a subsequent title; but this rule does not apply to the recital of a consideration; 3.

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