Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, Volume 140

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Halaman 260 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Halaman 585 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Halaman 636 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law ; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Halaman 566 - All labor on Sunday is prohibited, excepting the works of necessity and charity. In works of necessity Or charity is included whatever is needful during the day for the good order, health or comfort of the community.
Halaman 17 - The circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction in all matters, civil and criminal, not excepted in this Constitution, and not prohibited by law ; and appellate jurisdiction from all inferior courts and tribunals, and a supervisory control of the same.
Halaman 165 - ... application; it cannot be applied to other circumstances which could not have been in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made.
Halaman 244 - No judgment shall be set aside or new trial granted in any cause, civil or criminal, on the ground of misdirection of the jury or the improper admission or rejection of evidence, or for error as to any matter of pleading or procedure unless, in the opinion of the court to which the application is made, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall affirmatively appear that the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
Halaman 113 - Circumstantial evidence is, in the abstract, nearly, though perhaps not altogether, as strong as positive evidence ; in the concrete, it may be infinitely stronger. A fact positively sworn to by a single eye-witness, of blemished character, is not so satisfactorily proved, as is a fact which is the necessary consequence of a chain of other facts sworn to by many witnesses of undoubted credibility.
Halaman 509 - That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.
Halaman 333 - ... in equal shares to the other children of the same parent and to the issue of any such other children who are dead, by right of representation.

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