Southern Reporter, Nide 32West Publishing Company, 1903 Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana. |
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action affirmed Alabama alleged amount appeal appellee Arkansas Southern Railroad assessment authority averred bill of exceptions bills of lading bonds cause charge circuit court claim Code Company complainant contract convicted counsel Court of Louisiana creditor damages Dauphin debt deceased decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer dence district court entitled error erty evidence fact fendant filed fund ground heirs held Illinois Central Railroad indictment interest issue judge judgment judicial jurisdiction jurors jury land Levy ment Miss Mississippi Morgan City mortgage motion objection Orleans overruled owner paid parties person petition plaintiff plea possession proceedings prosecution question Railroad reason received refused rendered rule Ruston sheriff Shreveport South statute street suit Supreme Court Syllabus testator testified testimony thereof tiff tion transfer table trial usufruct verdict Walter Guion wife witness writ
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Sivu 130 - ... person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person; writing includes printing and typewriting; oath includes affirmation or declaration; and every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify...
Sivu 162 - There must be a misstatement of an existing fact: but the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion.
Sivu 289 - It cannot be, therefore, that the statute which made them negotiable by indorsement and delivery, or negotiable in the same manner as bills of exchange and promissory notes are negotiable, intended to change totally their character, put them in all respects on the footing of instruments which are the representatives of money, and charge the negotiation of them with all the consequences which usually attend or follow the negotiation of bills and notes.
Sivu 74 - Judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him...
Sivu 128 - Cas. 581, it was held that where the testator gave the residue of his real and personal estate to trustees for investment in their joint names, and directed the interest from time to time to be paid to such lineal descendants as they might severally need...
Sivu 262 - ... and thereupon it then and there became and was the duty of the said defendants to use due and proper care that the said plaintiff should...
Sivu 319 - The Grand Jury of said County charge, that before the finding of this indictment...
Sivu 379 - Starr, forty-five dollars, for value received with interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from date, until paid...
Sivu 37 - Prescription is a thing of policy, growing out of the experience of its necessity, and the time after which suits or actions shall be barred has been, from a remote antiquity, fixed by every nation, in virtue of that sovereignty by which it exercises its legislation for all persons and property within its jurisdiction.
Sivu 103 - ... to appear and show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted...