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... Common Law . ( 2 ) As a Statutory Remedy . V. Effect of Dissolution . ( 1 ) In a Court of Common Law . ( 2 ) In Courts of Equity and by Statute . . - 398-405 DIVISION II . - - SPECIAL RULES APPLICABLE TO STOCK CORPORA- TIONS ...
... Common Law . ( 2 ) As a Statutory Remedy . V. Effect of Dissolution . ( 1 ) In a Court of Common Law . ( 2 ) In Courts of Equity and by Statute . . - 398-405 DIVISION II . - - SPECIAL RULES APPLICABLE TO STOCK CORPORA- TIONS ...
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... Common Law . ( 1 ) Literary Compositions in General . Plays . ( 2 ) Letters . ( 3 ) Pictures and Statues . ( 4 ) Miscellaneous Cases . ( 5 ) Breaches of Trust or Confi- dence . II . Literary Property as Protected by Statute , or ...
... Common Law . ( 1 ) Literary Compositions in General . Plays . ( 2 ) Letters . ( 3 ) Pictures and Statues . ( 4 ) Miscellaneous Cases . ( 5 ) Breaches of Trust or Confi- dence . II . Literary Property as Protected by Statute , or ...
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... Common Law and by Statute . ( 1 ) At Common Law . ( 2 ) By Statute . III . What constitutes a Valid Trademark . ( 1 ) Name of the Manufacturer or Seller . ( 2 ) Name of the Place of Origin . ( 3 ) Use of the word " Patent " where the ...
... Common Law and by Statute . ( 1 ) At Common Law . ( 2 ) By Statute . III . What constitutes a Valid Trademark . ( 1 ) Name of the Manufacturer or Seller . ( 2 ) Name of the Place of Origin . ( 3 ) Use of the word " Patent " where the ...
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... common law of England . There was a legal fiction that an entire session of Parliament , however long it might be , was to be regarded as a single day . The result was that an act which was not criminal when committed , might become so ...
... common law of England . There was a legal fiction that an entire session of Parliament , however long it might be , was to be regarded as a single day . The result was that an act which was not criminal when committed , might become so ...
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... common law they either restore the possession of a specific thing to one entitled to it , or give damages to the injured party . These damages are either compensatory or vindictive . For the most part , they are com- pensatory , the ...
... common law they either restore the possession of a specific thing to one entitled to it , or give damages to the injured party . These damages are either compensatory or vindictive . For the most part , they are com- pensatory , the ...
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Page 22 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 54 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the...
Page 516 - No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery, nor shall any patent be declared invalid by reason of its having been first patented or caused to be patented in a foreign country...
Page 48 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 10 - Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York, as together did form the law of the said Colony...
Page 512 - Provided also and be it declared and enacted, that any declaration before mentioned shall not extend to any letters patent and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under, hereafter to be made of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use...
Page 69 - By the law of the land, is most clearly intended the general law — a law which hears before it condemns — which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 106 - To be a fugitive from justice, in the sense of the act of congress regulating the subject under consideration, it is not necessary that the party charged should have left the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed, after an indictment found, or for the purpose of avoiding a prosecution, anticipated or begun, but simply that, having...
Page 376 - ... in trust or otherwise, more than one-half part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.
Page 528 - ... who shall have any estate by the settlement of the intestate, or shall be advanced by the intestate in his lifetime, by portion or portions equal to the share which shall by such distribution be allotted to the other children to whom such distribution is to be made...