Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Opseg 284

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Stranica 373 - public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law...
Stranica 405 - Signed sealed published and declared by the said Robert Flint 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 subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
Stranica 175 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Stranica 300 - It is the settled law of this court that the interdiction of statutes impairing the obligation of contracts does not prevent the State from exercising such powers as are vested in it for the promotion of the common weal, or are necessary for the general good of the public, though contracts previously entered into between individuals may thereby be affected. This power, which in its various ramifications is known as the police power, is an exercise of the sovereign right of the Government to protect...
Stranica 309 - ... liability in any remedial action for the death or injury of any railroad employee caused to such employee by reason of or in connection with the movement or hauling of such car with equipment which is defective or insecure...
Stranica 305 - A common carrier is one who undertakes for hire to transport from place to place the goods of such as choose to employ him...
Stranica 417 - I give, devise, and bequeath to my granddaughter Mamie King, all of the southwest quarter of section 33, township twenty-three, and range sixteen, in Pawnee County, Kansas, to have and to hold the same, for and during her natural life, to have all of the use and profits thereof, and at her death to be equally divided between her children.
Stranica 559 - In all cases, to warrant a recovery, it must appear there has been some direct physical disturbance of a right, either public or private, which the plaintiff enjoys in connection with his property and which gives to it an additional value, and that by reason of such disturbance he has sustained a special damage with respect to his property in excess of that sustained by the public generally.
Stranica 128 - Estates in expectancy which are contingent or defeasible and in which proceedings for determination of the tax have not been taken or where the taxation thereof has been held in abeyance...
Stranica 451 - IV of the revenue act of 1918, a tax equal to the sum of the following percentages of the value of the net estate (determined as provided in section 403) is hereby imposed upon the transfer of the net estate of every decedent...

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