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..... this is indeed especially the case when they are merely coasting vessels, or such as are brought in on account of distress, shipwreck, or other accident. .....
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..... to rebut this testimony, the plaintiff offered in evidence by the pilot that the defendant's vessel appeared to be badly furnished and that at the time the accident happened, the mate who had charge of her under the pilot (the master being absent) declared that he had not a rope on board fit to hang a cat, and further offered in evidence that where the ..... and it was for the jury upon the whole evidence to say whether it was the result of accident, arising from strong wind and tide, against which ordinary skill and care could not have guarded, or the fault of the pilot, or the misconduct, negligence, or unskillfulness of the crew, or the insufficiency of the hawser, ..... it appears from the evidence that at the time the accident happened, the tasso was in charge of a regular pilot, leaving the prince's dock on her homeward voyage, and the francis depau was at anchor in the harbor, laden with salt and ready to sail. ..... by whose fault the accident happened was a question of fact to be decided by the jury upon the whole evidence before them. ..... by whose fault the accident happened is a question of fact for the jury, to be decided by them upon the whole of the evidence. .....
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..... of the chain of the harriet, which had a great scope out; that the chain of the harriet was not forward of her, but off on the starboard bow; that the harriet had met with a similar accident in and about the same place on a former voyage; that the entrances of passes at the mouth of the mississippi are very intricate and difficult on account of the currents and counter-currents; that as vessels approach the .....
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..... such seems to have been the sense of congress as expressed in the act of 1832, which authorized the issuing a new patent when an original one was invalid by accident, inadvertence, or mistake, and without any fraudulent intent, by reason of the terms of the 3d section of the act of 1793 not having been complied with, "provided, however, that such new patent so granted shall in all respects be .....
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..... hours' duration, talking the whole time of his daughter myra, and his last will; he said a burden of solicitude was removed from his mind from the time he had secured to her his estate beyond accident, by finishing his last will; he dwelt upon the moral benefit to her in society from being acknowledged by him in his last will as his legitimate daughter; he talked about her education, said it would be the greatest boon ..... davis, on the eve of his sailing for new orleans, on his return: "philadelphia, 12 july, 1811" "my dear sir: in case of any accident or misfortune to me, be pleased to open the letter addressed to me, which accompanies this, and act with respect to the enclosures as i directed you with respect to the other affairs committed to your charge before leaving new orleans. ..... of the enclosed letter you will say _____ unless in case of accident, when you may communicate it to chew and relf." "s. b. .....
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..... louis of illinois, 26 november, 1800" "having seen the foregoing information and the just rights stated by don pedro chouteau, to whom an unexpected accident has deprived of his title of concession, and considering that he has been for a long time proprietor of the land in question, the surveyor of this upper louisiana, don antonia soulard, shall put him in possession, in the .....
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..... mr. hanson can affect them with some fraud or show some accident or mistake under which he accepted the .....
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..... but whether this language was the result of accident or design, it cannot authorize the construction of the law establishing the other territories, among which the territory of minnesota is included, as though the power of removal applied to them. .....
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..... caused by the intoxication of james corbin, yet if they also believe that a long course of previous habitual good conduct through a series of years, from his boyhood to the time of this accident in question, had satisfied the defendants, the tavern keepers with whom james corbin boarded, and his associates, that he was a temperate and an abstemious man, that then the defendants, as far as ordinary wisdom and ..... intoxicated, still if he was not so much intoxicated as to be incapable of the management and control of this team, and the accident did not arise from that cause, but from the state of the weather, obscurity of the night, and the condition of the roads, that the defendants are not liable in this action, especially if the ..... recover unless they were clearly satisfied that on this occasion, the disaster was attributable to the fault of the driver, and not to the darkness of the night or other accidental cause, and that said accident would not have occurred but for the fault of the driver. ..... the proprietors of a stagecoach do not warrant the safety of their passengers in the character of common carriers, and that they are not responsible for mere accidents to the persons of passengers, but only for the want of due care. ..... if the jury believe that, at the time of the accident, the coach was on the upper and safer portion of the road, and that the accident occurred in the effort of corbin to take up his horses after descending the hill, that the defendants are not liable in this .....
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..... that it did not embrace the groove, which was essential to its validity, that the new patent is not the same invention, and that the plaintiff has not made out a case of such 'inadvertence, accident, or mistake,' as justified the issue of the new patent, inasmuch as it appears, from the patent for plates on railroads issued at the same time with the one for short curves, that he had known ..... it did not embrace the groove, which was essential to its validity, that the new patent is not for the same invention, and that the plaintiff has not made out a case of such inadvertence, accident, or mistake as justified the issue of the new patent, inasmuch as it appears from the patent for plates on railroads, issued at the same time with the one for short curves, that he had known ..... if the error shall have arisen by inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention," the fact of the granting of the renewed patent closes all inquiry into the existence of inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and leaves open only the question of fraud for ..... if the error has or shall have arisen by inadvertency, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, it shall be lawful" to ..... or invalid for the causes set forth in the act of 1832 -- the noncompliance with the third section of the act of 1793, for the want of a proper specification of the thing patented, through inadvertence, accident, or mistake, without any fraudulent or deceptive intention. .....
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