Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 274 |
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Page 142 - In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.
Page 20 - Every person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written...
Page 572 - Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United States...
Page 468 - Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction ; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
Page 486 - The fourteenth amendment does not profess to secure to all persons in the United States the benefit of the same laws and the same remedies. Great diversities in these respects may exist in two States separated only by an imaginary line.
Page 68 - The provisions of any statute, so far as they are the same as those of any prior statute, shall be construed as a continuation of such provisions, and not as a new enactment.
Page 462 - That they were intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.
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Page 258 - Court and the decree of the circuit court are reversed and the cause is remanded to the circuit court, with directions to enter a decree in accordance with the views herein expressed and providing for the payment of costs by the trustees from funds of the estate.