Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippines from ..., Volume 7

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Bureau of Printing, 1907
 

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Página 818 - The test is not, whether the defendant has already been tried for the same act, but whether he has been put in jeopardy for the same offense, .A single act may be an offense against two statutes; and if each statute requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not, an acquittal or conviction under either statute does not exempt the defendant from prosecution and punishment under the other.
Página 184 - This title shall not extend to actions already commenced, or to cases where the right of action has already accrued ; but the statutes now in force shall be applicable to such cases, according to the subject of the action, and without regard to the form.
Página 31 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Página 831 - Secretary, is a contract, containing stipulations on the part of the Government, and on the part of the corporation, entered into for full and adequate consideration. The Government became party to this contract by granting the charter, and the stockholders by accepting it.
Página 167 - But this court has never held, nor must we now be understood as holding, that administrative officers, when executing the provisions of a statute involving the liberty of persons, may disregard the fundamental principles that inhere in 'due process of law' as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.
Página 555 - Whenever a party has, by his own declaration, act, or omission, intentionally and deliberately led another to believe a particular thing true, and to act upon such belief, he cannot, in any litigation arising out of such declaration, act, or omission, be permitted to falsify it; 4.
Página 306 - No motion for a new trial was made in the court below, and...
Página 370 - W. 546): that the contributory negligence of the party Injured will not defeat the action if it be shown that the defendant might, by the exercise of reasonable care and prudence, have avoided the consequences of the Injured party's negligence.
Página 358 - If, for the purpose of argument, we assume that the Fifth Amendment applies to him and that to deny entrance to a citizen is to deprive him of liberty, we nevertheless are of opinion that with regard to him due process of law does not require a judicial trial.
Página 147 - The defendant may set forth by answer as many defenses and counter-claims as he may have. They shall each be separately stated, and the several defenses shall refer to the causes of action which they are intended to answer, in a manner by which they may be intelligibly distinguished.

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