The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 235West Publishing Company, 1922 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 134 - That carriers while under Federal control shall be subject to all laws and liabilities as common carriers, whether arising under State or Federal laws or at common law, except in so far as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other Act applicable to such Federal control or with any order of the President.
Page 180 - To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.
Page 180 - Every holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course; but when it is shown that the title Of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims acquired the title as a holder in due course.
Page 447 - Block. A length of track of defined limits, the use of which by trains is governed by block signals, cab signals, or both.
Page 440 - A person is held to a representation made or a position assumed, where otherwise inequitable consequences would result to another who, having the right to do so under all the circumstances of the case, has, in good faith, relied thereon.
Page 211 - Being asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, Brown rose, and said: — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say.
Page 109 - On this day of , Nineteen Hundred and Thirty , before me personally appeared and (his wife) (her husband), to me known to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that they executed the same as their free act and deed.
Page 453 - We are of opinion, too, that, on the whole case, there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury on the question of...
Page 83 - ... and, in the other policy, if death should result " from bodily injuries effected directly and independently of all other causes through external, violent and accidental means.
Page 180 - That it is complete and regular upon its face; 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact; 3. That he took it in good faith and for value; 4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.