Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Volume 65H.O. Houghton and Company, 1864 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 332 - And the said applicant hereby covenants and agrees to and with the said company that the foregoing is a just, full and true exposition of all the facts and circumstances in regard to the condition, situation, value and risk of the property to be insured, so far as the same are known to the applicant and are material to the risk...
Page 430 - Lightfoot then and there instantly died, and so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that the said David Beckett, the said John Lightfoot, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder...
Page 87 - Youth, for the purpose of training and teaching such persons, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and fortyfourth chapters of the Revised Statutes.
Page 222 - ... in each case shall be the amount of damages actually found by the court or jury, and the interest thereon ; and in all...
Page 587 - ... the contract can be no more than a contract to supply goods answering a particular description, and since the vendor would fulfil his part of the contract by furnishing any parcel of goods answering that description...
Page 55 - A bank-note is constantly and universally, both at home and abroad, treated as money, as cash ; and paid and received as cash : and it is necessary, for the purposes of commerce, that their currency should be established and secured.
Page 139 - There is a middle class of cases, namely, where the exception is not, in express terms, introduced into the enacting clause, but only by reference to some subsequent or prior clause, or to some other statute. As when the words " except as hereinafter mentioned," or other words referring to matter out of the enacting clause, are used.
Page 373 - Kidder, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the President, Directors, and Company...
Page 429 - And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say that the said John L. Chapman, the said Reuben Cozzens, then and there, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder; against the peace of said commonwealth, and the form of the statute in such case made and provided.
Page 67 - We are not aware of any instance, in which a person has been allowed, as plaintiff in a court of law, to rescind his own act, on the ground, that such act was a fraud on some other person whether the party seeking to do this has sued in his own name only, or jointly with such other person.