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Jenkins Vs. Pye

Court : US Supreme Court

..... she conveyed to the adult tenant for life, who was her father and natural guardian, with whom she resided, and on whom she was dependent. .....

Carr Vs. Duval

Court : US Supreme Court

..... harris, his brother and brother-in-law, the married adult sister joining in the deed, should one be made, and a covenant by others, as sureties, that the infant heirs should convey when they came of age. .....

Luther Vs. Borden

Court : US Supreme Court

..... by the growth of the state in commerce and manufactures, this requirement had for some time been obnoxious, as it excluded so many adult males of personal worth and possessed of intelligence and wealth, though not of land, and as it made the ancient apportionment of the number of representatives, founded on real estate, very disproportionate to the present population and personal property in ..... 49 and a convention called by them of delegates, selected by the made adults who had resided one year in the state, with a view chiefly to correct the right of suffrage and the present unequal apportionment of representatives. ..... a constitution was formed by those delegates, a vote taken on its ratification, and an adoption of it made, as its friends supposed, and offered to prove, by a decided majority, both of the freehold voters and of the male adults in the state. .....

Lessee of Mccall Vs. Carpenter

Court : US Supreme Court

..... ;" the bill was taken as confessed against the adult heir and against the others upon the answer put in by the guardian, no proof, for aught that appears, having been given. .....

Clinton Vs. Englebrecht

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the 16th section of the act provided that all free white male adults, not disqualified by any legal proceeding, should be qualified as grand and petit jurors in the courts of the territory, and should be selected, until the general assembly should otherwise direct, in such manner as the courts should ..... but as soon as the number of adult male inhabitants should amount to five thousand, they were authorized to elect representatives to a house of representatives, who were required to nominate ten persons from whom congress should select five to constitute a legislative council; and the ..... of the territories south of the ohio, and the people in the territories of michigan, indiana, and illinois were authorized to form a legislative assembly as soon as they should see fit, without waiting for a population of five thousand adult males. .....

Railroad Company Vs. Gladmon

Court : US Supreme Court

..... assuming that it would have been a sound rule if the plaintiff had been an adult, it is evident that the jury would not have been justified in applying it in this case ..... the defendant, in his duty under the law, is to be held to the exercise of adult judgment and caution when brought to bear upon the security of childhood and undeveloped judgment, and as a convertible proposition the child is to be held to the measure of childhood judgment, and i will give you some of the ..... the rule of law in regard to the negligence of an adult and the rule in regard to that of an infant of tender years are quite ..... the rule of law in regard to the negligence of an adult and the rule in regard to that of an infant of tender years are quite ..... circumstance that the plaintiff was an infant of tender years, and that a different rule was required in that case from the rule in the case of an adult, was excluded from the proposition. ..... refused to give these instructions, and charged as follows: "[the care of the defendant is to be tested by the exercise of adult judgment in treating undeveloped judgment in childhood. ..... while, in a suit by an adult against a street railway company for injuries done to him while he was crossing the track of the company, it is true that the absence of reasonable care and caution on his part will prevent a recovery, it is not correct ..... by the adult there must be given that care and attention for his own protection that is ordinarily exercised by persons of intelligence and .....

Railroad Company Vs. Stout

Court : US Supreme Court

..... while it is the general rule in regard to an adult, that to entitle him to recover damages for an injury resulting from the fault or negligence of another, he must himself have been free from fault, such is not the rule in regard to an infant of tender years. ..... while it is the general rule in regard to an adult that to entitle him to recover damages for an injury resulting from the fault or negligence of another, he must himself have been free from fault, such is not the rule in regard to an infant of tender years. ..... it is well settled that the conduct of an infant of tender years is not to be judged by the same rule which governs that of an adult. .....

Mokoondo Lall Shaw and anr. Vs. Gonesh Chunder Shaw and anr.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1876)ILR1Cal104

..... the current profits or income of the property to the trustees and direct them to apply this to the payment of debts throughout a specified period, as twenty years, 1 do not think it is competent to him to give the corpus of the property to an adult person and at the same time to forbid that person from enjoying the property in the way which the law allows. .....

O'Hara Vs. MacConnell

Court : US Supreme Court

..... husband and wife were sued together, but the rule was amended by this court in 1874 so as to require a personal service on each defendant or by leaving a copy for each at his or her usual place of abode, with some adult member of the family. .....

Baban Mayacha and ors. Vs. Nagu Shravucha and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1877)ILR2Bom19

..... in no respect an optional payment required only from those who actually wished to practise fishing, but a compulsory impost exacted from all full-grown men of the common fishing caste, in the belief apparently that if any adult males of that caste did not engage in sea-fisheries, they were rare exceptions to the general rule, and also that the number of persons of other castes who did engage in that trade was inconsiderable .....