Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Volum 124

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E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1921

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Side 871 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Side 915 - ... designate his beneficiary, and from time to time have the same changed in accordance with the laws, rules or regulations of the society, and no beneficiary shall have or obtain any vested interest in the said benefit until the same has become due and payable upon the death of the said member ; provided, that any society may, by its laws, limit the scope of beneficiaries within the above classes.
Side 514 - The provision of an accident policy providing for an autopsy in case of death will be construed most strongly against the insurer and in favor of the insured ; and such provision will be construed so as to require the demand and the operation to be made before interment.
Side 538 - Doe against (1) the effects resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes, from bodily injury sustained during the life of this policy solely through External, Violent and Accidental Means...
Side 540 - An injury which might naturally produce death in a person of a certain temperament or state of health is the cause of his death, if he dies by reason of it, even if he would not have died if his temperament or previous health had been different ; and this is so as well when death comes through the medium of a disease directly induced by the injury as when the injury immediately interrupts the vital processes.
Side 286 - Any carrier or party liable on account of loss of or damage to any of said property •=hall have the full benefit of any insurance that may have been effected upon or on account of said property...
Side 283 - IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED, that in case of any loss, detriment, or damage done to or sustained by any of the property herein receipted for during such transportation, whereby any legal liability or responsibility shall or may be incurred, that Company alone shall be held answerable therefor in whose actual custody the. same may be at the time of the happening of such loss, detriment or damage...
Side 644 - When either of the parties, whether plaintiff or petitioner or defendant, in any suit in any court of the United States, dies before final judgment, the executor or administrator of such deceased party may, in case the cause of action survives by law, prosecute or defend any such suit to final judgment.
Side 374 - ... in any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought kill and murder the deceased ; and it shall be sufficient in any indictment for manslaughter to charge that the defendant did feloniously...
Side 340 - ... the doctrine will apply, which is to be found, I believe, in the laws of all civilized nations, that if a man, either by words or by conduct, has intimated that he consents to an act which has been done, and that he will offer no opposition to it, although it could not have been lawfully done without his consent, and he thereby induces others to do that from which they otherwise might have abstained, he cannot question the legality of the act he had so sanctioned, to the prejudice of those who...

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