The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 140West Publishing Company, 1912 |
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Page 302 - ... where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declarations (2).
Page 419 - If any bill presented to the Governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect.
Page 420 - ... of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect. If the Legislature be in session, he shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of such statement, and the items objected to shall be separately considered.
Page 149 - To make an arrest, a private person, if the offense be a felony, and in all cases a peace officer, may break open the door or window of the house in which the person to be arrested is, or in which they have reasonable grounds for believing him to be, after having demanded admittance and explained the purpose for which admittance is desired.
Page 259 - The legal canon is, that a communication made bona fide, upon any subject matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contains criminatory matter, which (without this privilege) would be slanderous and actionable.
Page 149 - A riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Page 270 - The rules of the common law in relation to common carriers are simple, well defined, and what is no less important, well understood. The carrier is liable for all losses except those occasioned by the act of God or the public enemies.
Page 307 - When the actual funds of any life insurance company doing business in this commonwealth are not of a net cash value equal to its liabilities, counting as such the net value of its policies, which shall be, until the 31st day of December, 1895, valued according to the "American Experience" Table of Mortality, with interest at four and one-half per centum per annum, and on and after that day shall be valued according to the "Combined Experience
Page 419 - If, after such re-consideration, two-thirds of the members elected agree to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be re-considered. And if approved by two-thirds of the members elected to that house, it shall...
Page 420 - Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, except on questions of adjournment, shall be presented to the Governor, and before it shall take effect, be approved by him, or being disapproved, shall be repassed by both Houses according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.