Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, Band 278

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E.W. Stephens, 1919
 

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Seite 211 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society.
Seite 693 - A judicial inquiry investigates, declares, and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist.
Seite 629 - The time within which an act is to be done, as herein provided, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last...
Seite 692 - ... no person, or collection of persons, charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.
Seite 169 - In all suits upon policies of insurance on life hereafter issued by any company doing business in this state, to a citizen of this state, it shall be no defense that the insured committed suicide, unless it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court or jury trying the cause, that the insured contemplated suicide at the time he made his application for the policy, and any stipulation in the policy to the contrary shall be void.
Seite 522 - One year after date, I promise to pay to the order of 0. J. Starr, forty-five dollars, for value received with interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from date, until paid...
Seite 583 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to appear and defend, in person and by counsel ; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation...
Seite 694 - The courts are not authorized to revise or change the body of rates imposed by a legislature or a commission ; they do not determine whether one rate is preferable to another, or what under all circumstances would be fair and reasonable as between the carriers and the shippers ; they do not engage in any mere administrative work ; but still there can be no doubt of their power and duty to inquire whether a body of rates prescribed by a legislature or a commission is unjust and unreasonable, and such...
Seite 447 - In determining who provoked or commenced the difficulty, or made the first assault, you should take into consideration all the facts and circumstances in evidence before you.
Seite 529 - ... the estate in the land along with it to every purpose. The estate in the land is the same thing as the money due upon it. It will be liable to debts ; it will go to executors ; it will pass by a will not made and executed with the solemnities required by the Statute of Frauds.

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