Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, Volume 52

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Page 334 - A verbal gift is not valid, unless the means of obtaining possession and control of the thing are given, nor, if it is capable of delivery, unless there is an actual or symbolical delivery of the thing to the donee.
Page 61 - In an action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, express or implied, the plaintiff, in addition to the actual damages, may recover damages for the sake of example and by way of punishing the defendant.— 1905:621.
Page 185 - ... and whether the same will be made upon affidavits or the minutes of the court, or a bill of exceptions, or a statement of the case: 1.
Page 202 - ... shall bear interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from the date of the confirmation thereof, and execution may issue thereon.
Page 753 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Page 24 - Where one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third, he, by whose negligence it happened, must be the sufferer.
Page 304 - If the decedent leaves no surviving husband or wife, but leaves issue, the whole estate goes to such issue ; and if such issue consists of more than one child living, or one child living and the lawful issue of one or more deceased children, then the estate goes in' equal shares to the children living, or to the child living and the issue of the deceased child or children by right of representation.
Page 359 - ... from the time the judgment is docketed it becomes a lien upon all the real property of the judgment debtor not exempt from execution in the county, owned by him at the time, or which he may afterwards acquire, until the lien ceases.
Page 34 - A servant is one who is employed to render personal service to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the control and direction of the latter, who is called his master.
Page 743 - A cause of action arising out of the contract or transaction set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff's claim, or connected with the subject of the action ; 2.

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