Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippines from ..., Volume 46Bureau of Printing, 1925 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Absolo accused action Administrative Code affirmed Alejandrino alleged American Express Co amount appellant appellee Avanceña Avery Bank bills of lading Burke Cebu Cecilio Cajucom City of Manila Civil Code Civil Procedure claim Code of Civil Collector of Customs complaint concur contract corporation crime criminal deceased defendant Director of Lands document duty Elser error evidence execution Exhibit facts favor filed Francisco Government heirs Instance of Manila Insurance interest Jones Law Jose judge judgment appealed jurisdiction justice Kiel Legislature letter lower court Lunsod Malcolm mandamus Manuel Araullo ment mortgage Municipal Board municipality Nueva Ecija opinion Ortega Ostrand owner parcels parties payment person petition petitioner Phil Philippine Islands plaintiff possession present provisions Public land purchase question Romualdez Rufina Medel Sabert statute Supreme Court Tabuche testimony thereof tion trial court usufruct Valdellon Villamor witness word entertain writ yacht
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Page 437 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth and of the subjects of the same.
Page 352 - No suit or action on this policy, for the recovery of any claim, shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 90 - The Congress is the legislative department of the government ; the President is the executive department. Neither can be restrained in its action by the judicial department ; though the acts of both, when performed, are, in proper cases, subject to its cognizance.
Page 723 - When private individuals of one nation spread themselves through another as business or caprice may direct, mingling indiscriminately with the inhabitants of that other, or when merchant vessels enter for the purposes of trade, it would be obviously inconvenient and dangerous to society, and would subject the laws to continual infraction, and the government to degradation, if such individuals or merchants did not owe temporary and local allegiance, and were not amenable to the jurisdiction of the...
Page 119 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Page 827 - An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice by which one party prosecutes another for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
Page 791 - ... bound to keep the property, or deliver it to the plaintiff, unless the plaintiff, on demand of him or his agent...
Page 448 - The right of a person to sell his labor upon such terms as he deems proper is, in its essence, the same as the right of the purchaser of labor to prescribe the conditions upon which he will accept such labor from the person offering to sell it.
Page 790 - If the property taken be claimed by any other person than the defendant or his agent, and such person make affidavit of his title thereto, or right to the possession thereof, stating the grounds of such title or right, and serve the same upon the sheriff, the sheriff shall not be...
Page 448 - In all such particulars the employer and the employee have equality of right, and any legislation that disturbs that equality is an arbitrary interference with the liberty of contract which no government can legally justify in a free land.