Pittsburgh Legal Journal, כרך 33Allegheny County Bar Association, 1886 Containing reports from Pennsylvania judicial districts and other leading decisions. |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action agreement alleged Allegheny county amount Appeal apply assessment assumpsit authority bank bill bonds charge claim Common Pleas Commonwealth contract corporation Court of Common court of equity creditors damages death debt deceased declarations decree deed defendant duty election entitled equity evidence execution executors facias fact Filed October fraud fund George Wallace held interest interpleader issue John Judgment affirmed jurisdiction jury land learned judge lease legacy liable lien matter ment Messrs mortgage notice opinion Orphans Oyer and Terminer P. F. Smith paid parties payment person petition Philadelphia county plaintiff in error possession proceedings purchase money Quarter Sessions question Railroad real estate reason recover refused replevin rule scire facias sheriff sheriff's sale statute statute of limitations sufficient suit Supreme Court Susquehanna Boom tenant testator testimony thereof tion trial trust verdict widow wife William writ
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 109 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
עמוד 426 - ... brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow...
עמוד 86 - All judges required to be learned in the law, except the judges of the Supreme Court, shall be elected by the qualified electors of the respective districts over which they are to preside, and shall hold their offices for the period of ten years, if they shall so long behave themselves well...
עמוד 363 - Now, clearly enough, it is the general rule that the possession of one tenant in common is the possession of all the co-tenants and inures to the benefit of all.
עמוד 232 - The specifications of error are sustained, the decree of the court below is reversed, and the bill is reinstated; and it is ordered that the record be remitted to the court below for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.
עמוד 463 - Pennsylvania, which constitutional provision provides that 'the general assembly shall not pass any local or special law . . . regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts...
עמוד 255 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
עמוד 470 - And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts, That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
עמוד 377 - The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases shall be vested in the courts, to be exercised in such manner as shall be provided by law.
עמוד 474 - The compensation of county officers shall be regulated by law, and all county officers who are or may be salaried shall pay all fees which they may be authorized to receive, into the treasury of the county or State, as may be directed by law. In counties containing over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants all county officers shall be paid by salary, and the salary of any such officer and his clerks, heretofore paid by fees, shall not exceed the aggregate amount of fees earned during his term...