Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Volume 86Bancroft-Whitney, 1906 |
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Page 281 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 582 - ... a cause of action exists against the defendant in respect to whom the service is to be made...
Page x - The Chief Justice may sit in either department, and shall preside when so sitting, but the Justices assigned to 'each department shall select one of their number as presiding Justice. In...
Page x - ... sitting, but the justices assigned to each department shall select one of their number as presiding justice. In case of the absence of the chief justice from the place at which the court is held, or his inability to act, the associate justices shall select one of their own number to perform the duties and exercise the powers of the chief justice during such absence or inability to act.
Page 497 - It is urged by the appellant that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury, as requested...
Page 330 - If the evidence of an alibi in connection with all the other evidence raises a reasonable doubt of the presence of the defendant at the time and place of the crime he should be acquitted.
Page 304 - The lessor of a building intended for the occupation of human beings must, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, put it into a condition fit for such occupation, and repair all subsequent dilapidations thereof, which render it untenantable, except such as are mentioned in section nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.
Page 281 - ... to the extent of two hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds for stations, buildings, workshops, and depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turntables, and water stations.
Page 140 - From and after the time the declaration is filed for record, the premises therein described constitute a homestead.
Page 41 - ... towns heretofore organized or incorporated may become organized under such general laws whenever a majority of the electors voting at a general election shall so determine, and shall organize in conformity therewith ; and cities or towns heretofore or hereafter organized and all charters thereof framed or adopted by authority of this constitution shall be subject to and controlled by general laws.