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act takes effect ACT to amend Acts Repealed affidavit aforesaid amended and re-enacted amount appear appointed Approved March assessed attorney auditor ballots board of education bond cause certificate chapter one hundred charged circuit court claim clerk Code amended code of West commissioner copy corporation costs county court decree deed deemed defendant duty election enacted entitled execution expiration of ninety filed foregoing act takes governor HOUSE OF DELEGATES hundred dollars issue judge judgment jury justice land Legislature of West levy liable lien March 25 ment Monday ninety days notice oath owner paid party Passed March payment Penalty person plaintiff prescribed proceedings purchaser re-enact chapter re-enacted by chapter read as follows real estate record residing school district sheriff sold suit summons taxes term therein thereof thereto thousand eight hundred tion town or village treasury vote West Virginia writ
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Page 269 - Assembly shall provide, by law, that in all elections for directors or managers of incorporated companies, every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, for the number of shares of stock owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares, and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors, multiplied by the number of his shares of stock, shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among...
Page 196 - ... comprised or intended to be comprised in any devise in such will contained, which shall fail or be void by reason of the death of the devisee in the lifetime of the testator, or by reason of such devise being contrary to law or otherwise incapable of taking effect, shall be included in the residuary devise (if any) contained in such will.
Page 543 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 281 - That before any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given in such exchange.
Page 320 - SCHEDULE A. Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. SCHEDULE B.
Page 500 - The person having the highest number of votes for either of said offices shall be declared duly elected...
Page 194 - No will shall be valid unless it be in writing and signed by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction, in such manner as to make it manifest that the name is intended as a signature...
Page 168 - Court, as well the Party issuing such Process as the Party making such Claim...
Page 9 - The foregoing act having been presented to the governor for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of the legislature in which it originated, within the time prescribed by the constitution of the state, has become a law without his approved.
Page 543 - If the said certificate is given by the presiding justice of a court, it shall be further authenticated by the clerk or prothonotary of the said court, who shall certify, under his hand and the seal of his office, that the said presiding justice is duly commissioned and qualified ; or, if given by such governor, secretary, chancellor or keeper of the great seal, it shall be under the great seal of the State, Territory, or country aforesaid in which it is made.