Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Missouri Bar AssociationThe Association, 1904 - Bar associations |
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action Adiel Sherwood adjourn adopted American Bar Association annual meeting appointed Assembly bankruptcy bill of exceptions Boonville cause shown chairman Charles Claflin Allen circuit judges Commissioners Committee on Legal Committee on Statutory Constitution Council Court of Appeals David Wagner declared E. P. Gates elected enacted filing final judgment follows gentlemen George Robertson Harrisonville Henry Lamm J. W. Halliburton Jefferson City John Joseph Judge Jacob Klein Judicial Circuit Kansas City lawyers legislature Louis matter membership ment Missouri Bar Association mittee Mosman moved and seconded Negotiable Instruments Nixon-Jones Ptg person Platte City present President Pro Tem President Schofield proceedings proposed question R. F. Walker recommendation repeal Revised Statutes say aye Secretary Sedalia Selden session Spencer Statutes of Missouri Statutory Amendments submitted suggestion Supreme Court tion trial Uniformity of Legislation Vest vote Warrensburg West Plains words
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Page 111 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 85 - We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well ordered civil society, that every holder of property, however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated, that it shall not be injurious to the equal enjoyment of others having an equal right to the enjoyment of their property, nor injurious to the rights of the community.
Page 86 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment, as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Page 142 - ... a person shall be deemed insolvent within the provisions of this act whenever the aggregate of his property, exclusive of any property which he may have conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors, shall not, at a fair valuation, be sufficient in amount to pay his debts.
Page 142 - ... the person receiving it, or to be benefited thereby, or his agent acting therein, shall then have reasonable cause to believe that the enforcement of such judgment or transfer would effect a preference, it shall be voidable by the trustee and he may recover the property or its value from such person...
Page 45 - Within the age of twenty-one years ; or 2. Insane ; or 3. Imprisoned on a criminal charge, or in execution upon conviction of a criminal offense, for a term less than for life ; or 4. A married woman : the time during which such disability shall continue shall not be deemed any portion of the time in this act limited for the commencement of such action...
Page 142 - ... transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any...
Page 86 - The police power of the state extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state...
Page 158 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart, A wretch, a villain, lost to love and truth, That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his perjured arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honor, virtue, conscience, all exiled ? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth.
Page 107 - We are clearly of opinion that no statute which leaves the party or witness subject to prosecution, after he answers the criminating question put to him, can have the effect of supplanting the privilege conferred by the Constitution of the United States.