Philadelphia Reports, Volume 10Henry Edward Wallace J.M.P. Wallace, 1879 "Included cases from the Supreme and inferior courts of Philadelphia and from the United States courts."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884. |
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Page 212 - ... entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be at liberty to return as their verdict that the defendant is not guilty of the felony or misdemeanor charged, but is guilty of an attempt to commit the same, and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for attempting to commit the particular felony or misdemeanor charged in the...
Page 295 - In obeying and construing these rules, due regard must be had to all dangers of navigation ; and due regard must also be had to any special circumstances which may exist in any particular case rendering a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Page 92 - That the question does not depend upon whether the covenant runs with the land, is evident from this, that if there was a mere agreement and no covenant, this Court would enforce it against a party purchasing with notice of it; for if an equity is attached to the property by the owner, no one purchasing with notice of that equity can stand in a different situation from the party from whom he purchased.
Page 610 - All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation; and the organization, jurisdiction, powers, proceedings and practice of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process, judgments and decrees of such courts, severally, shall be uniform.
Page 499 - Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate.
Page 562 - Where the intent is plain, nothing is left to construction. Where the mind labors to discover the design of the legislature, it seizes everything from which aid can be derived ; and in such case the title claims a degree of notice, and will have its due share of consideration.
Page 440 - Whenever death shall be occasioned by unlawful violence or negligence, and no suit for damages be brought by the party injured, during his or her life, the widow of any such deceased, or, if there be no widow, the personal representatives, may maintain an action for and recover damages for the death thus occasioned.
Page 571 - ... all actions of debt for arrearages of rent, and all actions of assault, menace, battery, wounding, and imprisonment, or any of them, which shall be sued or brought, &c., shall be commenced and sued within the time and limitation hereafter expressed, and not after...
Page 572 - ... law or other person to confess judgment, to enter judgment against the person or persons who executed the same, for the amount which, from the face of the instrument, may appear to be due...
Page 92 - ... land, may not be a complete remedy to the purchaser, to whom the land may have a peculiar and special value.