Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Volum 54H.O. Houghton and Company, 1866 |
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Pàgina 69 - All the laws which have heretofore been adopted, used, and approved in the Province, Colony, or State of Massachusetts Bay, and usually practised on in the courts of law...
Pàgina 155 - The case was submitted to the court upon the following agreed statement of facts : " The plaintiffs are the lessees of said mill, dam and privileges, as alleged in their declaration.
Pàgina 303 - No mortgage of personal property hereafter made shall be valid against any other person than the parties thereto, unless possession of the mortgaged property be delivered to and retained by the mortgagee, or unless the mortgage be recorded by the clerk of the town where the mortgagor resides.
Pàgina 48 - Still, if the other party have derived any benefit from his labour, it would be 'unjust to allow him to retain that without paying anything. The law, therefore, implies a promise on his part to pay such a remuneration as the benefit conferred upon him is reasonably worth, and, to recover that quantum of remuneration, an action of indebitatus assumpsit is maintainable.
Pàgina 384 - ... agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Pàgina 68 - But here a very natural, and very material, question arises: how are these customs or maxims to be known, and by whom is their validity to be determined? The answer is, by the judges in the several courts of justice. They are the depositaries of the laws; . the living oracles, who must decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land.
Pàgina 34 - ... who shall hold their office for one year and until others are chosen in their places.
Pàgina 102 - In damages to the extent of such injury to the person or corporation so injured; and any railroad corporation shall have an insurable interest in the property for which it may be so held responsible in damages along its route, and may procure insurance thereon in its own behalf.
Pàgina 73 - The answer is, by the judges in the several courts of justice. They are the depositaries of the laws; the living oracles, who must decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land. Their knowledge of that law is derived from experience and study . . . and from being long personally accustomed to the judicial decisions of their predecessors.
Pàgina 31 - ... done by him, he has no title to the same; and that, such act being done, and the possession thus acquired, the executory agreement of the debtor authorizing it, it will then become holden by virtue of a valid lien or pledge.