Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina, for the Year Ending ..., Edição 7

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J. Daniels, State printer and binder, 1898
 

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Página lviii - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página xliii - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will or even at the whim, of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great offices of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Página xxi - The General Assembly shall have no power to deprive the Judicial Department of any power or jurisdiction which rightfully pertains to it as a co-ordinate department of the Government...
Página xliii - The Fourteenth Amendment does not profess to secure to all persons in the United States the benefit of the same laws and the same remedies. Great diversities in these respects may exist in two States separated only by an imaginary line. On one side of this line there may be a right of trial by jury, and on the other side no such right. Each State prescribes its own modes of judicial proceeding.
Página 130 - Conducting Transportation : Superintendence, ..... Engine and Roundhouse Men, Fuel for Locomotives, .... Water Supply for Locomotives, Oil, Tallow, and Waste for Locomotives, Other Supplies for Locomotives. Train Service, Train Supplies and Expenses, . Switchmen, Flagmen, and Watchmen, Telegraph Expenses, .... Station Service. Station Supplies...
Página lvii - That no man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
Página xi - That in all controversies at law, respecting property, the ancient mode of trial by jury is one of the best securities of the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable.
Página 104 - Renewals of Ties Repairs and Renewals of Bridges and Culverts, Repairs and Renewals of Fences, Road Crossings, Signs, and Cattle Guards Repairs and Renewals of Buildings and Fixtures, Repairs and Renewals of Docks and Wharves, Repairs and Renewals of Telegraph...
Página xxiv - Angeles, ss. being duly sworn, says: That he is the applicant in the foregoing application, that he has read the same and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated on information and belief, and as to those matters he believes it to be true.
Página lvii - The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a court for the trial of impeachments, a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, courts of justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the supreme court as may be established by law for any incorporated city or town.

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