The Pacific Reporter, Volumen186

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West Publishing Company, 1920
 

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Página 455 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case. The court, when impelled by duty to render such a judgment, would be unworthy of its station, could it be unmindful of the solemn obligations which that station imposes. But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers,...
Página 405 - States and to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes therein contained.
Página 27 - March 1, 1914, leaving a last will and testament which was duly admitted to probate in the superior court of the county of Los Angeles.
Página 341 - Excessive damages, appearing to have been given under the influence of passion or prejudice; 6.
Página 202 - For the breach of an obligation arising from contract, the measure of damages, except where otherwise expressly provided by this code, is the amount which will compensate the party aggrieved for all the detriment proximately caused thereby, or which, in the ordinary course of things, would be likely to result therefrom.
Página 353 - Of the parties to the action those who are united in interest must be joined as plaintiffs or defendants...
Página 17 - The persons entitled to recover damages for any injury causing death shall be the husband, widow, children, or parents of the deceased, and no other relative, and the sum recovered shall go to them in the proportion they would take his or her personal estate in case of intestacy, and that without liability to creditors.
Página 218 - Where the means of knowledge are at hand, and equally available to both parties, and the subject of purchase is alike open to their inspection, if the purchaser does not avail himself of these means and opportunities he will not be heard to say that he has been deceived by the vendor's misrepresentations.
Página 85 - Gray, at the time he shot and killed the deceased, had reason to believe, and did believe, that he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm at the hands of the deceased.
Página 462 - The parties to a contract may agree therein upon an amount which shall be presumed to be the amount of damage sustained by a breach thereof, when, from the nature of the case, it would be impracticable or extremely difficult to fix the actual damage.

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