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..... or refining of ores or metals shall be eight hours per day, except in cases of emergency where life or property is in imminent danger;" and that "any person, body corporate, agent, manager or employer who shall violate any of the provisions of sections one and two of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor," are a valid exercise of the police power of the state, and do not violate the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the united states ..... been found to be no longer necessary; that restrictions which had formerly been laid upon the conduct of individuals or classes had proved detrimental to their interests; and other classes of persons, particularly those engaged in dangerous or unhealthy employments, have been found to be in need of additional protection: but this power of change is limited by the fundamental principles laid down in the constitution, to which each member of the union is bound to accede as a condition of its admission as a state ..... in other states, laws have been enacted limiting the hours during which women and children shall be employed in factories, and while their constitutionality, at least as applied to women, has been doubted in some of the states, they have been generally upheld. ..... the employment of women, or of children under the age of fourteen years, in underground mines." "2. .....
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..... of which one went to his heirs or lineal descendants, another to his wife, and a third was at his own disposal, or, if he died without a wife, he might then dispose of one moiety, and the other went to his children, and so, e converso, if he had no children, the wife was entitled to one moiety, and he might bequeath the other; but if he died without either wife or issue, the whole was at his own disposal. ..... though the general consent of the most enlightened nations has, from the earliest historical period, recognized as natural right in children to inherit the property of their parents, we know of no legal principle to prevent the legislature from taking away or limiting the right of testamentary disposition, or imposing such conditions upon its exercise as it may deem conducive to ..... -fifth section also provided that the provisions of this act, so far as they were substantially the same as those of the laws existing april 30, 1892, should be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended according to the language employed in this act, and not as new enactments. ..... the code napoleon, gifts of property, whether by acts inter vivos or by will, must not exceed one-half the estate if the testator leave but one child, one-third if he leaves two children, one-fourth if he leaves three or more ..... if he have no children, but leaves ancestors both in the paternal and maternal line, he may give away but one-half of his property, and but three-fourths if he have ancestors in but .....
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..... in the petition filed by them it was alleged -- that the plaintiffs were residents, property owners, and taxpayers of richmond county, the defendant board being a corporation created under an act of the general assembly of georgia of august 23, 1872, regulating public instruction in that county empowering the board to annually levy such tax as it deemed necessary for public school purposes; that ..... 534 and length of term, but that this section refers only to the schools established by the trustees of each school district under section 6 of said act, and does not apply to schools of higher grade; that section 10 of said act, which empowers this respondent to establish schools of higher grade than those established by the local trustees, ordains their establishment to such as the interest and convenience of the people ..... 533 able to erect buildings and employ additional teachers for the large number of colored children who were in need of primary education, and because there were in the city of augusta at this time three public highschools -- the haines industrial school, the walker baptist institute ..... defendants deny the allegations specially pleading that the acts of 1872 and 1877 deny to the colored race equal protection of the law, or that the course and conduct of this ..... " the answer of the board, referring to the act of 1872, averred that "section 9 of said act commands the local trustees to provide the same facilities to each race as regards schoolhouses and fixtures, attainments .....
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..... " "in the case of a blockade without regular notice, notice in fact is generally requisite, and there is this difference between a blockade regularly notified and one without such notice; that, in the former case, the act of sailing for the blockaded place with an intent to evade it, or to enter contingently, amounts, from the very commencement of the voyage, to a breach of the blockade; for the port is to be considered as closed up, until the blockade be formally ..... 380 to this government, she was not a cartel ship, privileged from capture as such, but one employed in a commercial enterprise for the personal profit of the charterer, and only secondarily, if at all, for the ..... that "notification of a blockade is an act of high sovereignty, and not to be extended by those employed to carry it into execution. . . ..... sailed from cienfuegos may 10 with 350 passengers, mostly women and children, was again boarded on leaving the port, but was allowed to ..... president, to have intended to leave open a large portion of the cuban coast, and ports included therein, to neutral and friendly commerce, designed to furnish food to our starving allies, and to enable their women and children to flee from the oppression under which they were suffering. ..... , after the declaration of war, had made several voyages to cuban ports, with the express permission of the american consul at kingston; had brought away several hundred refugees, chiefly women and children, and was engaged in a similar errand when seized. .....
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..... corpus by petition alleging that the warrant under which he was arrested charged him with a violation of the tenth paragraph of section two of the general tax act of georgia of 1898, and that his restraint was illegal because that part of the act was in conflict with clause three of section eight, and with clause five of section nine, of article one, and with section two of article four of ..... this case, the supreme court of georgia decided that the act of 1876, which required a license as preliminary to carrying on this business, was not unconstitutional on this ground, for the reason that it did not appear that hiring for internal employment had become a business in georgia, or was page 179 ..... further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the taxes provided for in paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 of section 2 of this act shall be paid in full for the fiscal years for which they are levied to the tax collectors of the counties where such vocations are carried on at the time of commencing to do business specified in said paragraphs. ..... 21) read thus: "an act to levy and collect a tax for the support of the state government and the public institutions; for educational purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an english education only, to pay the interest on the public debt, and to pay maimed confederate soldiers and widows of confederate soldiers such amounts as are .....
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..... such vessel or vessels, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, and all persons employing a person to act as pilot, not holding a license under this title or under the laws of the state of new jersey, shall forfeit and pay to the board of commissioners of pilots the sum of one hundred dollars. ..... the way of sandy hook, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, and all persons employing a person to act as pilot not holding a license under this title or under the laws of the state of new jersey shall forfeit and pay to the board of commissioners of pilots the sum of one hundred dollars. ..... be revoked, and the said commissioners may establish and enforce all other needful rules and regulations for the conduct and government of the pilots licensed by them, and the parties employing them, and they may enforce and receive accounts of all moneys collected for pilotage by the pilots licensed by them, and may impose and collect from such pilots a sum ..... the benevolent and beneficial purpose of relieving distressed and decayed pilots, their widows and children. ..... pilot, the master, owner, or consignee, should forfeit and pay a sum equal to half-pilotage to the use of the society for the relief of distressed and decayed pilots, their widows and children. .....
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..... 285 the opinion of his agent, some good reasons existed in special cases which were sufficient to exempt particular persons from this requirement; otherwise, every indian on the reservation not well employed should be permitted and encouraged to engage in the work; that all cutting should be done under the superintendence and direction of a competent white man, who should go into the ..... a violation of the regulation that "each indian shall provide his own logging outfit and supplies," but, however this may be, it gives no color to the assertion that the defendants acted in good faith, since they could hardly have failed to know that their advances must have been greatly in excess of what was needed for preparing for market less than three million feet ..... which the cutting was done, the correspondence between the secretary of the interior and the president upon the subject, the regulations which the latter adopted for carrying the act into effect, and the conduct of the parties to the contracts tend to show that they were intended to authorize the removal of all the dead and down timber on ..... the regulations, however, properly limited the right to indians "not well employed," and provided that no favoritism should be shown by the agent in the management of the business, and that no indian should be ..... in the work should provide his own logging outfit and supplies; that no indian should be allowed to log who has children of school age but not attending school unless, in page 186 u. s. .....
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..... what preceded that, including the arrangement between starn, the agent of plaintiff in error, and the assured for the employment of the latter by the former, must be considered as having been approved by the company. ..... the drawer, pendleton, who took entire charge of the policy for his children, put its existence on the condition of payment of the draft at maturity, and it was his business, as agent or guardian of his children, to see that the draft was thus paid; that the requisite funds were in the hands of the drawees, or that they would pay it, whether in funds or not. ..... the statute was sustained, and the case was brought here under section 5 of the judiciary act of 1891 by the policy, the plaintiff in error promised to pay defendant in error the sum of $3,000 upon the death of thomas m. ..... of course, such circumstances must have come from the company or from its agent acting within his authority. ..... were starn's acts authorized? ..... , as to the usage of the company not to demand punctual payment at the day, or to give thirty days of grace, it was said: "this was a mere matter of voluntary indulgence on the part of the company, or, as the plaintiff herself calls it, an act of leniency. .....
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..... 121 damages in the nature of alimony and pensions during necessity or until marriage given by the mexican law to the wife and children of one wrongfully killed in mexico by a railroad company cannot be commuted into a lump sum by a jury in a common law action brought in a circuit ..... the expert would have testified that, where no criminal proceedings had been had, the right of the widow and children was dependent upon the court's finding that the killing was a crime as defined by the penal code, and that the right was in the nature of alimony or pension, to be paid in installments for ..... 202, 203, lord justice selwyn, speaking for the court, said: "it is true that in many cases the courts of england inquire into and act upon the law of foreign countries, as in the case of a contract entered into in a foreign country, where, by express reference, or by necessary implication, the foreign law is incorporated with the contract, and proof ..... therefore we may lay on one side as quite inadmissible the notion that the law of the place of the act may be resorted to so far as to show that the act was a tort, and then may be abandoned, leaving the consequences to be determined according to the accident of the place where the ..... slater, who was employed by the defendant as a switchman on its road, and was killed through the defendant's negligence while coupling two freight cars ..... making railroad companies answerable for the negligence of their servants within the scope of the servants' employment. .....
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..... age of two years or under, found in the city of new york, abandoned or deserted, and left in the crib or other receptacle of petitioner for foundlings, and to keep such children during infancy; that the child william norton had come to it as a foundling within the terms of its charter; that the petitioner, on the fourth of october, 1901, to october 2, ..... the discretionary power exercised in rendering the judgment, the ability of local tribunals to see and hear the witnesses and the rival claimants for custody of children, induced, in our opinion, the denial of appeal in such cases as the one at bar, as distinguished from those of a different character, where personal liberty is really involved, and release ..... at what period the writ first was employed to place infant children under the disposal of courts of law ..... permit appeals from all cases in which the writ is issued is manifest in the use of language in the act specifically limiting the right of review in this court to cases of writs which involve the question of personal freedom ..... drake, comberback 35; 16 viner 213), and the habeas corpus act of charles ii, which is claimed as the magna charta of british liberty ..... , the court or judge still acts with submission to the original principle, out of which it sprang, that infants ought to be left where found, or be taken from that custody and transferred to some other at the discretion ..... the court, acting upon the principle that the best interests of the infant are controlling, awarded the .....
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