Luzerne Legal Register Reports, Volum 4

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George Brubaker Kulp, Joseph D. Coons, Wesley E. Woodruff
Rees Welsh, 1888
"Volumes nine and ten of the Luzerne legal register are in first Kulp [i.e. Kulp's Luzerne legal register reports], volumes eleven and twelve are in second Kulp, and volumes thirteen and fourteen are in third Kulp, with different paging."--V. 11, p. [iii].
 

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Side 143 - Regulating the practice or jurisdiction. of, or changing the rules of evidence in, any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, aldermen, justices of the peace, sheriffs, commissioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters in chancery or other tribunals, or providing or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing of judgments...
Side 27 - In other words, as the cases universally hold, a statute specifying a time within which a public officer is to perform an official act regarding the rights and duties of others is directory, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the phraseology of the statute, is such that the designation of time must be considered as a limitation of the power of the officer.
Side 122 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.
Side 267 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Side 373 - When the words are not explicit the intention is to be collected from the context ; from the occasion and necessity of the law; from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed according to what is consonant with reason and good discretion.
Side 203 - August next, if any person shall do or perform any worldly employment or business whatsoever on the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Side 363 - Regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts...
Side 133 - To open and improve streets, avenues, and alleys, make sidewalks, and build bridges, culverts...
Side 25 - States, shall be allowed the following holidays, to wit: the first day of January, the twentysecond day of February, the fourth day of July, the twenty-fifth day of December, and such days as may be designated by the President as days for national thanksgiving, and shall receive the same pay as on other days.
Side 341 - If the title fairly gives notice of the subject of the Act so as reasonably to lead to an inquiry into the body of the bill, it is all that is necessary.

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