Reports of Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina: From December Term, 1853, to [June Term, 1862], Both Inclusive, Volum 7S. Gales, 1860 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 308 - ... sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of a common man; and so to convince him that he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own interest.
Pàgina 369 - That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the Truth of the Protestant Religion, or the Divine Authority either of the Old or New Testament, or who shall hold Religious Principles incompatible with the Freedom and Safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any Office or Place of Trust or Profit in the Civil Department, within this State.
Pàgina 446 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Pàgina 493 - State, any written or printed pamphlet or paper, whether written or printed in or out of the State, the evident tendency whereof is to cause slaves to become discontented with the bondage in which they are held by their masters and the laws regulating the same, and free negroes to be dissatisfied with their social condition...
Pàgina 308 - On the other hand, a juror ought not to condemn unless the evidence exclude from his mind all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused, and, as has been well ob. served, unless he be so convinced by the evidence that he would venture to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own interest...
Pàgina 324 - Fresh rivers of what kind soever, do of common right, belong to the owners of the soil adjacent...
Pàgina 454 - Were it not so, a murderer, to secure himself with impunity, would have no more to do but to consume or decompose the body by fire, by lime, or by any other of the known chemical menstrua, or to sink it In an unfathomable part of the sea.
Pàgina 374 - ... produce a certificate, under the hand and seal of a magistrate, notary public, or commissioner of deeds, most contiguous to the place of the fire, and not concerned in the loss...
Pàgina 331 - That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, privileges, or franchises, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the law of the land, X.
Pàgina 434 - ... to be used and resorted to in order to determine the rights and obligations of the parties hereto in all cases not herein otherwise specially provided for in writing.