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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Page 99
... contract of lease for a fixed and certain period . Harris v . Carson , 7 Leigh 632. See the title PAROL EVIDENCE . VII . What Deeds of Trust Con- veying Crops Not Fraud- ulent . to A deed of trust which among other things conveys ...
... contract of lease for a fixed and certain period . Harris v . Carson , 7 Leigh 632. See the title PAROL EVIDENCE . VII . What Deeds of Trust Con- veying Crops Not Fraud- ulent . to A deed of trust which among other things conveys ...
Page 108
... contract . Cancellation . - The cancellation of a contract is proper ground for the filing of a cross bill . McMullen v . Eagan , 21 W. Va . 233 , 247 ; Norfolk , etc. , R. Co. kin should file a cross bill , raising the question of the ...
... contract . Cancellation . - The cancellation of a contract is proper ground for the filing of a cross bill . McMullen v . Eagan , 21 W. Va . 233 , 247 ; Norfolk , etc. , R. Co. kin should file a cross bill , raising the question of the ...
Page 110
... contract thus estab- etc. , R. Co. v . Mc- Answer as Cross Bill . - But the strict rule has been departed from , or ... contract between parties is different from the contract set up in the bill , and the true contract is proved by the ...
... contract thus estab- etc. , R. Co. v . Mc- Answer as Cross Bill . - But the strict rule has been departed from , or ... contract between parties is different from the contract set up in the bill , and the true contract is proved by the ...
Page 113
... contract for land , the question in the bill , as where a dis- defendant can not by way of cross covery is necessary , or as when the bill bring into litigation a fraud prac- original bill is brought for a specific ticed on him by the ...
... contract for land , the question in the bill , as where a dis- defendant can not by way of cross covery is necessary , or as when the bill bring into litigation a fraud prac- original bill is brought for a specific ticed on him by the ...
Page 131
... Contract . - Although street railway company may have the right to cross a railroad at grade with- out the consent of the railroad com- pany , yet the benefits derived from the increased safety to its passengers fur- nishes a sufficient ...
... Contract . - Although street railway company may have the right to cross a railroad at grade with- out the consent of the railroad com- pany , yet the benefits derived from the increased safety to its passengers fur- nishes a sufficient ...
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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.