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(e) effect of pardon of prior offense; (f) ef-
fect of appeal or writ of error to review
prior conviction; (g) effect of prior con-
viction in other state or country; (h) what
prior sentence must have been; (i) similar-
ity or identity of prior and subsequent
offenses; (j) procedure: (1) in general; (2)
pleas and admissions; (3) order of trial;
separating issues; (4) proof; (5) attacking
validity of prior conviction; (6) verdict
and judgment; (7) appeal or writ of error 398
Reduction of prisoner's term by allowance
for good behavior:-(I.) Constitutionality
of statute providing therefor; (II.) con-
struction and effect of statutes: (a) in gen-
eral; (b) Federal cases

Custom. See CARRIERS.
Death; how many distinct causes of action
arise from injuries resulting in death:-
(I.) Alternative action for death or injury:
(a) generally; (b) actions for death as af-
fected by release: (1) by injured party; (2)
by others; (3) by plaintiffs; (c) other
actions as a bar: (1) actions for the injury;
(2) other actions for the death; (d) multi-
plicity of actions for death; (e) bar of other
actions by limitation; (f) for death of in-
fants; (II.) concurrent actions for death
and injury

Debt. See IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Divorce. See HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Dower; as affected by insanity of husband
Drunkenness. See HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Electrical uses; grant of franchises to
electrical subway companies
Evidence; presumption against the de-
stroyer (spoliator) of evidence:-(I.) Where
a party fails to produce evidence after de-
mand or notice by the party entitled to
the production thereof; (II.) where a
party fails to introduce documentary
("the best") evidence which would prop-
erly be a part of the case: (a) the rule
stated; (b) the substituted evidence; (c) the
rule and evidence in admiralty; (III.)
where a party adversely! interested [de-
stroys or withholds evidence to which the
adversary is entitled: (a) the rule; (b) the
proof; (c) the damages

Execution; imprisonment on, see IMPRISON-
MENT FOR DEBT. I

Ex post facto laws; as to nabitual crimi-

nals

Fines; imprisonment for, as imprisonment
for debt

509

788

369

rights; (IV.) as to community property;

(V.) as to property and rights of husband 223
Drunkenness as affecting divorce:-(L)
Drunkenness as a ground for divorce: (a)
provisions for; (b) what constitutes drunk-
enness; (c) degree of drunkenness auth-
orizing divorce; (d) pleadings and proof;
(e) defenses; (f) incidents and effects; (II.)
drunkenness as affecting eruel and inhu-
man treatment: (a) drunkenness as
cruelty; (b) drunkenness connected with
cruelty; (c) drunkenness as evidence of
cruelty; (III.) drunkenness as affecting
desertion

Divorce when husband or wife becomes in-
sane:-(I.) Insanity as a ground for divorce;
(II.) insanity as affecting adultery: (a) as a
ground for divorce; (b) as a defense to a
claim for alimony: (III.) insanity as affect-
ng abandonment and failure to support;
(IV.) insanity as affecting cruelty; (V.) the
defense; (VI.) actions on behalf of insane
persons
Allowance to husband from property held
by the wife in divorce cases:-(I.) Perma-
nent allowance; (II.) statutes; (III.) alimo-
ny pendente lite; (IV.) English cases
Enforcing payment of alimony as imprison-
ment for debt

Illegitimate children. See INCOMPETENT
PERSONS.

224 Imprisonment for debt; constitutionality
of imprisonment for debt:-(I.) General
extent and construction of constitutional
provisions; (II.) what are debts: (a) mean-
ing of the word "debt"; (b) in general; (c)
breach of promise to marry; (III.) action
founded on tort: (a) in general; (b) mesne
profits; (c) trespass; (d) fraud; (IV.) fines
and penalties as debts: (a) in general; (b)
fine imposed by city authority; (V.) taxes
as debts; (VI.) costs as debts: (a) debts in
civil actions; (b) not debts in civil actions;
(c) debts in criminal actions; (d) not debts
infcriminal actions; (VII.) statutory, crim-
inal, or quasi-criminal cases; (VIII.) en-
forcing orders and' decrees of court: (a)
in general; (b) in decedents' estates; (c) in
admiralty; (d) alimony; (e) in bastardy; (f)
against officers of the court; (IX.) due
process of law; (X.) ne exeat; (XI.) debts
owing to the United States

581

399 Incompetent person. See also HUSBAND

642

651

Former jeopardy; as to habitual criminals 400
Fraud; imprisonment for debt in case of
Fright. See STREET RAILWAYS.
Gas. See MINES.

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AND WIFE.

Renewal of obligations by

Using lunatic's property to carry out his
presumed wishes or to fulfil his equitable
obligations in the absence of a legal auth-
ority:-(I.) Power generally; (II.) in sup-
port of his family; (III.) in support of ille-
gitimate children, etc.; (IV.) for allowan-
ces to persons entitled to inheritance; (V.)
for allowances to collateral relations: (VI.)
for allowances to persons not related;
(VII.) for charitable and religious pur-
poses; (VII.) to continue arrangements
made while sane
Judgment. See APPEAL; CORPORATIONS.
Landlord and tenant. See also MINES.
Liability of landlord for injury to tenant
from defect in premises:-Landlord not

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449

161

110

665

634

274

297

bound to have premises safe; implied cov-
enants: action for nonrepair; construction
of covenant to repair; warranty or repre-
sentations by landlord; fraud or deceit:
concealment of defects; statutory liability;
landlord actively negligent; contributory
negligence; proximate cause; measure of
damages; distinguishable cases
Liability of landlord for injuries to tenant's
guests and servants from defects in prem-
ises: Duty the same toward tenant and
tenant's guest or servant; landlord not
generally liable; defect in premises when
let; effect of concealment by landlord; ef-
fect of duty to repair; structure for use of
•public; liability of reversioner; contribu-
tory, negligence; portion of building in
landlord's possession; dangerous agency
on adjoining premises

Law of the case. See APPEAL.
Legislature. See PARDON.

Mines; effect of assignment of oil or gas
lease:-(I.) Liability of assignor; (II.) lia-
bility of assignee
Municipal corporations; municipal taxa-
tion of rural lands within the limits of the
corporation:-(I.) Validity of exemption or
discrimination in rates; (II.) construction
of statutory exemption or discrimination;
(III.) right to repeal exemptions; (IV.)
validity of taxation of farm lands; (V.)
power of courts; (VI.) what property is
34 L. R. A. ·

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4. The unconstitutionality of a
cannot be set up for the first time on appeal, as
a ground of attack on instructions which were
given on other issues. Ross v. Hawkeye Ins.
Co. (Iowa)

466

1. A consolidation of several actions
against different defendants cannot be made
under Colo. Civ. Code, § 20, which authorizes
consolidation of causes of action which might 5. Objections to the litigation of a ques-
have been joined when they are in the same tion presented by the pleadings will not be
court and "between the same parties." Smith considered when first made on appeal. Greene
V. Smith (Colo.)
v. Greene (Neb.)

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1. Alimony, counsel fees, and suit money
may be allowed by an appellate court as es-
sential to justice, and not as an exercise of origi
nal jurisdiction, when on appeal in a suit to
annul a marriage the wife is destitute while
the husband has means wherewith to live and
to litigate. Prine v. Prine (Fla.) ·
87

2. Proof in an appellate court to obtain an
allowance of alimony, counsel fees, and suit
money, must be made in addition to the proof
taken when a similar application was made to
and granted by a lower court.

Id.

Bill of exceptions.

110

6. A certificate to the bill of exceptions
stating that it contains all the evidence will
not be conclusive against statements in the bill
to the contrary.

Id.

dence cannot be regarded as a bill of exceptions
7. A longhand manuscript of alleged evi-
on appeal. Pittsburgh, C. C. & St. L. R. Co.
v. Redding (Ind.)
Review of facts.

767

8. A finding of fact by a jury on con-
flicting evidence will not be disturbed on ap-
peal. Hall v. Manson (Iowa)
207

9. A general finding of fact in a case tried
by a United States court without the interven-
tion of a jury cannot be reviewed by an appel-
late court. Rhodes v. United States Nat. Bank
(C. C. App. 7th C.)

742

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not ground for reversal. (Neb.)

Debney v. State ney of record of the execution creditor, such 851 attorney has no authority as such to authorize 15. An instruction which was not influen- the clerk of the circuit court in his official catial because no finding was made on the point pacity to accept money on a judgment. Heninvolved therein by the jury, which rendered dry v. Benlisa (Fla.) a special verdict, is not ground for reversal. Louisville, N. A. & C. R. Co. v. Lynch (Ind.)

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case;

Appeal; conclusiveness of prior decisions on subsequent appeals:-(a) Generally; (b) where the prior decision is erroneous; (e) as applied to matters after remanding a (d) as to evidence; (e) as to party; (f) as to matters necessarily involved; (g) as to the matters of estoppel; (h) as to matters of jurisdiction; (2) as to defective appeals; (j) as to crossappeals; (k) where prior decision is not final; () as to matters of pleading; (m) as to injunctions and interlocutory orders; (n) as to questions which might have been made on prior appeal; (0) as to excessive verdicts; (p) change of court; (9) as to effect of dicta; (r) where the questions are different; (8) as to ambiguous decisions; (t) as to limited decisions; (u) as to decisions by a divided court; (c) statute and Constitution changing the rule; (a) rule in intermediate courts. 321

ARMY AND NAVY. See CIVIL SERVICE.

ASSIGNMENT. See ACTION OR SUIT, 2; INSURANCE, 6, 7.

ATTACHMENT. See also STATUTES, 17.

The making of a false written statement as to financial ability, for the purpose of obtaining credit, does not make one liable to an attachment in favor of a creditor who had no knowledge of such statement until after the credit was given, under N. Y. Laws 1894, chap. 736, 1. authorizing the granting of an attachment where defendant for the purpose of procuring credit makes a false statement in writing as to his financial responsibilities. Penoyar v. Kelsey (N. Y.)

NOTES AND BRIEFS. Attachment; for false representations. ATTORNEYS.

283

BAGGAGE TRANSFER COMPANY. See CARRIERS, 7, NOTES AND BRIEFS.

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4. Fraud in receiving a deposit of checks or drafts after bank officials know that it is in

solvent will not give the depositor a preferential claim against assets in the hands of the receiver of the bank, if the bank before its failure had received the proceeds of such paper or credit therefor from a correspondent, although the bank had on hand when it failed and always after the deposits were made more than the amount thereof in cash.

Id.

5. Crediting checks and drafts to a bank which has failed, although done by a correspondent which does not yet know of the failure, cannot prejudice the rights of persons who deposited such paper in the insolvent bank to recover back their paper or its proceeds, when the deposit was received after the officers of the bank knew it to be insolvent. Id.

6. A credit for a draft given by one bank to another on the same day that the latter failed will not be presumed, in the absence of proof, to have been given after the failure in order to entitle one who deposited the draft in the insolvent bank after its officers knew it was insolvent to reclaim the proceeds of the draft out of the assets in preference to other creditors who seek to have them distributed pro rata. Klepper v. Cox (Tenn.) 536

NOTES AND BRIEFS.

248

Banks; trust in deposit in insolvent bank:Receiving deposit when insolvent a fraud; how 248 far trust exists; right to follow money; right to follow commercial paper. 532

Although money made on execution BARBERS. See CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, can by the Florida statute be paid to an attor

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