A Treatise on Petroleum and Natural and Manufactured Gases

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Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Company, 1902 - 461 páginas
 

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Página 416 - The proximate cause is the efficient cause, — the one that necessarily sets the other causes in operation. The causes that are merely incidental, or instruments of a superior or controlling agency, are not the proximate causes and the responsible ones, though they may be nearer in time to the result. It is only when the causes are independent of each other that the nearest is, of course, to be charged with the disaster.
Página 424 - ... if the hazard be increased by any means within the control or knowledge of the insured...
Página 181 - Scott, second party, all the oil and gas in and under the following described premises, together with the right to enter thereon at all times for the purpose of drilling and operating for oil...
Página 384 - Whether the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the injury...
Página 182 - Michigan of the second part, witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to them in hand, paid by the said party of the second .part...
Página 75 - The general assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property...
Página 14 - that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation having possession or control of any natural gas or oil well, whether as a contractor, owner, lessee, agent or manager, to allow or permit the flow of gas or oil from auy such well to escape into the open air...
Página 138 - To construct its road upon or across any stream of water, watercourse, road, highway, railroad, or canal, so as not to interfere with the free use of the same, which the route of its road shall intersect, in such manner as to afford security for life and property ; but the corporation shall restore the stream or watercourse, road or highway, thus intersected, to its former state, or in a sufficient manner not to unnecessarily impair its usefulness or injure its franchises.
Página 239 - it is provided, also, that a man, from henceforth, shall have a writ of waste, in the Chancery, against him that holdeth by law of England or otherwise, for term of life, or for term of years, or a woman in dower. And he which shall be attainted of waste, shall lose the thing that he hath wasted, and, moreover, shall recompense thrice so much as the waste shall be taxed at.
Página 240 - A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she shall have lawfully released her right thereto.

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