New Cases Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New York, Volume 12

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George S. Diossy, 1883 - Civil procedure
 

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Page 431 - I embrace and receive all and every one of the things which have been defined and declared in the holy council of Trent, concerning original sin and justification. " I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead.
Page 228 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant...
Page 21 - It was for the building of a bridge, which it recites the party of the second part "desires to build across the Allegheny river, and in accordance with specifications and plans * * * heretofore submitted to the. party of the first part by the .party of the second part.
Page 343 - In each of the following actions, an issue of fact must be tried by a jury, unless a jury trial is waived, or a reference is directed : 1. An action in which the complaint demands judgment for a sum of money only.
Page 82 - Each house shall be the judge of the election,, returns, and qualifications of its own members...
Page 121 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except as otherwise provided in section one hundred and thirteen, but this section shall not be deemed to authorize the assignment of a thing in action not arising out of contract.
Page 16 - The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, cannot exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other case, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint and embraced within the issue.
Page 73 - The Legislature shall not, nor shall the common council of any city, nor any board of supervisors, grant any extra compensation to any public officer, servant, agent or contractor.
Page 71 - The legislature shall, by general laws, confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the state such further powers of local legislation and administration as the legislature may from time to time deem expedient...
Page 128 - The rector and inhabitants of the city of New- York, in communion of the Church of England, as by law established...

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