Atlantic Reporter, Volum 5West Publishing Company, 1886 |
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Side 121 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Side 759 - P. 249), and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Side 549 - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will, by reason of such person having a prior estate tail, or of a preceding gift, being, without any implication arising from...
Side 744 - The General Assembly shall have the power to alter, revoke, or annul any charter of incorporation now existing and revocable at the adoption of this Constitution, or any that may hereafter be created, whenever, in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators.
Side 687 - And after the decease of my said wife I give, devise, and bequeath all my estate, real, personal, and mixed, to my...
Side 739 - Pennsylvania, which constitutional provision provides that 'the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law . . . regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts...
Side 743 - 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 689 - A gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as the rich.
Side 80 - The de facto doctrine was introduced into the law, as a matter of policy and necessity, to protect the interests of the public and individuals, where interests were involved in the official acts of persons exercising the duties of an office without being lawful officers.
Side 104 - Motion is made to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that it was not taken within the time limited by law for appealing. The act governing the subject provides that an appeal from an order or decree of the orphans...