The Western Reserve Law Journal, Volum 4faculty and students of the Franklin T. Backus Law School of the Western Reserve University, 1900 |
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Side 8 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Side 16 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Side 182 - With man's relations to his Maker and the obligations he may think they impose, and the manner in which an expression shall be made by .him of his belief on those subjects, no interference can be permitted, provided always the laws of society, designed to secure its peace and prosperity, and the morals of its people, are not interfered with.
Side 182 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or forbidding the free exercise thereof, was intended to allow every one under the jurisdiction of the United States to entertain such notions respecting his relations to his Maker and the duties they impose as may be approved by his judgment and conscience, and to exhibit his sentiments in such form of worship as he may think proper, not injurious to the equal rights of others, and to prohibit legislation for the support of any...
Side 91 - Richter says, in the Island of Sumatra there is a kind of ' Light-chafers,' large Fire-flies, which people stick upon spits, and illuminate the ways with at night. Persons of condition can thus travel with a pleasant radiance, which they much admire. Great honour to the Fireflies! But—!
Side 197 - Any alteration which changes : 1. The date ; 2. The sum payable, either for principal or interest; 3. The time or place of payment ; 4. The number or the relations of the parties ; 5. The medium or currency in which payment is to be made ; Or which adds a place of payment where no place of payment is specified, or any other change or addition which alters the effect of the instrument in any respect, is a material alteration.
Side 11 - Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment — a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to an answer. The question is this : What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make ; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
Side 118 - It is the duty of the court in its relation to the jury, to protect parties from unjust verdicts arising from ignorance of the rules of law and of evidence, from impulse of passion or prejudice, or from any other violation of his lawful rights in the conduct of a trial.
Side 104 - A trust is a combination of capital, skill or acts by two or more persons...
Side 19 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...