Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, 第 99 卷

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第 132 頁 - A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore, from the beginning of this jurisdiction, there was...
第 249 頁 - the repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability...
第 298 頁 - In all questions affecting the credibility of a witness, his general moral character may be given in evidence.
第 645 頁 - English law, the paramount duty of the courts in construing wills is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the testator or testatrix, to be collected from the whole will, and not from any particular word or expression which may be contained in it ; and extensive as has been the signification which the old French law has in many cases given to the word
第 193 頁 - ... technical words, or words of known legal import, must have their legal effect, even though the testator uses inconsistent words, unless those inconsistent words are of such a nature as to make it perfectly clear that the testator did not mean to use the technical words in their proper sense; and so it is said by Lord Redesdale in Jesson v.
第 553 頁 - The court erred in giving and refusing to give certain instructions to the jury.
第 22 頁 - ... would subject to a liability against which no prudence could guard, and to meet which no private fortune would be adequate...
第 237 頁 - But it must appear by affidavit, that the controversy is real, and the proceeding in good faith, to determine the rights of the parties.
第 552 頁 - ... conducted itself so carelessly, negligently and unskillfully, that by and through the carelessness, negligence and default of the said defendant and its servants...
第 291 頁 - We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged In the indictment, and assess his punishment at confinement In the penitentiary for a term of two years.

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