The Southern Reporter, Volume 88West Publishing Company, 1921 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 36 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 73 - ... transitu shall defeat the rights of any purchaser for value in good faith to whom such...
Page 255 - That for the purpose of the tax the value of the net estate shall be determined — (a) In the case of a resident, by deducting from the value of the gross estate...
Page 414 - That the party of the first part has hereby let and rented to the party of the second part...
Page 281 - The existence of any separate oral agreement as to any -matter on which a document is silent, and which is not inconsistent with its terms, if from the circumstances of the case...
Page 325 - No carrier hereunder will carry or be liable in any way for any documents, specie, or for any articles of extraordinary value not specifically rated in the published classifications or tariffs unless a special agreement to do so and a stipulated value of the articles are indorsed hereon.
Page 114 - Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to. hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation.
Page 5 - Property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its true value.
Page 417 - The liberty mentioned in that [Fourteenthl Amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties...
Page 389 - ... for money had and received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff...