Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association, Volume 15

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Page 228 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 227 - Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
Page 62 - The Constitution of the United States declares that no State shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.
Page 51 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men, in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Page 93 - In a civil Court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury; and in this case the damages as to the plaintiff's wife must stop with the period of her existence.
Page 267 - Annual Meeting shall be necessary to the election of officers, including the election of the Executive Council, and shall in all cases be by ballot. COMMITTEES. (As amended in 1907.) ARTICLE VI. — At the Annual Meetings the Association shall also elect an Executive Council, to be composed of four members, of which Council the President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be members ex-officio. Said members of the Executive Council shall hold their office for one year from the date of their election,...
Page 71 - ... such corporations shall be subjected to all the liabilities, restrictions and duties which are or may be imposed upon corporations of like character organized under the general laws of this state, and shall have no other or greater powers.
Page 97 - Whenever death shall be occasioned by unlawful violence or negligence, and no suit for damages be brought by the party injured, during his or her life, the widow of any such deceased, or if there be no widow, the personal representatives, may maintain an action for and recover damages for the death thus occasioned.
Page 100 - One thing, however, is unquestionable; the Constitution must have referred to a system of law coextensive with, and operating uniformly in, the whole country. It certainly could not have been the intention to place the rules and limits of maritime law under the disposal and regulation of the several states, as that would have defeated the uniformity and consistency at which the Constitution aimed on all subjects of a commercial character affecting the intercourse of the states with each other or...
Page 95 - Gull, and while adhering to his ruling in that case, and remarking that " the admiralty may be styled, not improperly, the human providence which watches over the rights and interests of those ' who go down to the sea in ships and do their business on the great waters...

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