Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Court, And, on Appeal, in the Court of Errors and Appeals, of the State of New Jersey, Volumen3

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Hough & Gillespy, Printers, 1868
 

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Página 502 - Court shall inspect the will and see whether it appears to be signed by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Página 185 - The charter of every corporation that shall hereafter be granted by the Legislature, shall be subject to alteration, suspension, and repeal, in the discretion of the Legislature.
Página 503 - ... declared to be his last will in the presence of two witnesses present at the same time, who shall subscribe their names thereto as witnesses in the presence of the testator.
Página 64 - Individuals or private corporations shall not be authorized to take private property for public use, without just compensation first made to the owners.
Página 547 - That it shall not be lawful, at any time during the said railroad charter, to construct any other railroad or railroads in this State, without the consent of the said companies, which shall be intended or used for the transportation of passengers or merchandise between the cities of New York and Philadelphia, or to compete in business with the railroad authorized by the act to which this supplement is relative, etc.
Página 523 - LC), and applying that principle to the facts of the present case, it seems to me that...
Página 65 - We know of no case, in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A to B, without his consent, has ever been held a constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted as inconsistent with just principles, by every judicial tribunal in which it has been attempted to be enforced.
Página 469 - ... a deed absolute on its face may be shown by parol to have been intended as a security.
Página 522 - if the public interest can be, in any way, promoted by the taking of private property, it must rest in the wisdom of the legislature to determine whether the benefit to the public will be of sufficient importance to render it expedient ... to exercise the right of eminent domain, and to authorize an interference with the private rights of individuals for that purpose...
Página 68 - ... some other reason, can be better managed and improved by some joint operation, such as the power of regulating the building of party walls ; making and maintaining partition fences and ditches; constructing ditches and sewers for the draining of uplands or marshes, which can more advantageously be drained by a common sewer or ditch.

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