The Encyclopedic Digest of Virginia and West Virginia Reports: Being a Complete Encyclopedia and Digest of All Virginia and West Virginia Case Law Up to and Including Volume 103 Virginia Reports and Volume 55 West Virginia Reports, Volume 4Thomas Johnson Michie Michie Company, 1906 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... common and statute law are synonymous terms , although the word crime is often used to denote offenses of the higher grades . 1 Haw . , p . 1 , Black . Com . , pp . 4 , 5. " In the same fifth page of 4 Blackstone's Commentaries , we are ...
... common and statute law are synonymous terms , although the word crime is often used to denote offenses of the higher grades . 1 Haw . , p . 1 , Black . Com . , pp . 4 , 5. " In the same fifth page of 4 Blackstone's Commentaries , we are ...
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... common - law term importing a public , indictable wrong or offense below the grade of felony . " Ex parte Garrison , 36 W. Va . 686 , 15 S. E. 417 . beginning with § 3 , art . 8 , of the con- stitution , defining the powers of this ...
... common - law term importing a public , indictable wrong or offense below the grade of felony . " Ex parte Garrison , 36 W. Va . 686 , 15 S. E. 417 . beginning with § 3 , art . 8 , of the con- stitution , defining the powers of this ...
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... common v . Weldon , 4 Leigh 653 . Previously Established Construction of Term . - Where a statute punishes an offense by giving it a name known to the common law without further de- fining it , the courts will look to the ac- common law ...
... common v . Weldon , 4 Leigh 653 . Previously Established Construction of Term . - Where a statute punishes an offense by giving it a name known to the common law without further de- fining it , the courts will look to the ac- common law ...
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... common - law rule prevails which furnishes no warrant for the con- viction in a state court of a person charged with the commission of an offense in another state . It was the rule at common law that every prosecu- tion for a criminal ...
... common - law rule prevails which furnishes no warrant for the con- viction in a state court of a person charged with the commission of an offense in another state . It was the rule at common law that every prosecu- tion for a criminal ...
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... common- wealth , except piracies and felonies on the high seas , though committed be- yond the territorial limits of the com- monwealth , are indictable and punish- able in the general court ; the words " in any place out of the ...
... common- wealth , except piracies and felonies on the high seas , though committed be- yond the territorial limits of the com- monwealth , are indictable and punish- able in the general court ; the words " in any place out of the ...
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Page 231 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 445 - An officer de facto is one whose acts, though not those of a lawful officer, the law, upon principles of policy and justice, will hold valid so far as they involve the interests of the public and third persons, where the duties of the office were exercised...
Page 173 - If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through or by means of some intervening cause, from which last cause the injury followed as a direct and immediate consequence, the law will refer the damage to the last or proximate cause, and refuse to trace it to that which was more remote.
Page 226 - ... notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 654 - Governor, shall be impeached, displaced, resign, or die, or otherwise become incapable of performing the duties of the office, the President of the Senate shall act as Governor until the vacancy is filled or the disability removed...
Page 239 - So a licensee, who enters on premises by permission only, without any enticement, allurement or inducement being held out to him by the owner or occupant, cannot recover damages for injuries caused by obstructions or pitfalls. He goes there at his own risk, and enjoys the license subject to its concomitant perils.
Page 203 - Upon the point of the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict, on the ground that the damages were excessive...
Page 6 - ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
Page 10 - It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle, that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute, is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or of kindred character with those which are enumerated.
Page 283 - To be recovered by Bill, Plaint or Information, in any Court of Record within this Government ; •wherein no Assign, Protection, Injunction or Wager of Law, shall be allowed or admitted of.