The Pacific Reporter, Volume 158

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West Publishing Company, 1916
 

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Page 306 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said William Kemp as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page 154 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other.
Page 357 - All laws in force in the Territory of Oklahoma at the time of the admission of the State into the Union, which are not repugnant to this constitution...
Page 247 - Where the instrument is made payable at a bank it is equivalent to an order to the bank to pay the same for the account of the principal debtor thereon.
Page 135 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses where the proof is evident, or the presumption great.
Page 426 - The cause of action in such case not to be deemed to have accrued until the discovery, by the aggrieved party, of the facts constituting the fraud or mistake.
Page 213 - The causative danger must be peculiar to the work, and not common to the neighborhood. It must be incidental to the character of the business, and not independent of the relation of master and servant. It need not have been foreseen or expected, but after the event it must appear to have had its origin in a risk connected with the employment, and to have flowed from that source as a rational consequence.
Page 280 - That a thing once proved to exist continues as long as is usual with things of that nature; 33.
Page 349 - When a signature is forged or made without the authority of the person whose signature it purports to be, it is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the instrument, or to give a discharge therefor, or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be acquired through or under such signature, unless the party, against whom it is sought to enforce such right, is precluded from setting up the forgery or want of authority.
Page 182 - At the close of the plaintiff's case the defendant moved for a nonsuit upon the ground that the evidence failed to sustain this allegation of the complaint.

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