A Manual of Elementary LawWest, 1894 - 367 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
acquired action adjective law adopted agent agreement applied authority bailment bill breach called chattel chose in action Classification common law condition contract conveyance corporation court court of equity coverture created crime criminal curtesy damages death deed distinction duty easement enforce England equity erty estate less execution executory exist fee simple fee tail grant grantor heirs held hold INCORPOREAL HEREDITAMENTS inheritance injury instrument intent interest judicial jurisdiction land legal right legislature less than freehold liability limited marriage matters ment merely nature necessary obligation operation of law owner ownership particular estate parties partnership personal property possession principles promise prop punishment quired real property recognized regarded remainder remedy result right in rem Roman law rules sovereign statute Statute of Frauds tenant term terminated thing tion tort United unwritten law usually valid vested violation wife writ written wrong
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Página 309 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Página 32 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Página 248 - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person...
Página 103 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution may think necessary and expedient.
Página 248 - ... or to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage ; or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them ; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Página 32 - It would be difficult to sustain this proposition. The convention which framed the constitution was indeed elected by the state legislatures; but the instrument, when it came from their hands, was a mere proposal, without obligation or pretensions to it.
Página 32 - This mode of proceeding was adopted; and by the convention, by Congress, and by the state legislatures, the instrument was submitted to the people. They acted upon it in the only manner in which they can act safely, effectively, and wisely, on such a subject, by assembling in convention.
Página 54 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
Página 54 - ... strictly limited to local statutes and local usages of the character before stated, and does not extend to contracts and other instruments of a commercial nature, the true interpretation and effect whereof are to be sought, not in the decisions of the local tribunals, but in the general principles and doctrines of commercial jurisprudence.
Página 93 - ... the personal rights guarantied and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and of the press; the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right appertaining to each and all the people; the right to keep and to bear arms; the right to be exempted from the quartering of soldiers in a house without the consent of the owner; the right to be exempt from unreasonable searches...