Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 227

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Page 234 - No county, city, township, school -district, or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose, to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 397 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Page 287 - Missouri, where the judgment of the circuit court was reversed and the cause remanded to the circuit court, with directions to enter a judgment confirming the will.
Page 245 - The decree of the circuit court will be reversed, and the cause remanded to that court, with directions to overrule the demurrer of Nettie F. Clevenger to the bill filed in this case for the partition of said 80-acre tract of land. Reversed and remanded, with directions.
Page 467 - Each General Assembly shall provide for all the appropriations necessary for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session...
Page 29 - ... in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before said court. Every person, who, having taken an oath or made...
Page 273 - ... and shall take, transport, and discharge such passengers and property at, from, and to such places, on the due payment of tolls, freight, or fare, legally authorized therefor.
Page 198 - Importunity or threats, such as the testator has not the courage to resist, moral command asserted and yielded to for the sake of peace and quiet, or of escaping from distress of mind or social discomfort, these, if carried to a degree In which the free play of the testator's judgment, discretion, or wishes, is overborne, will constitute undue influence, though no force is either used or threatened. In a word, a testator may be led but not driven ; and his will must be the offspring of his own volition,...
Page 518 - Insurance, shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof and shall be admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as the original thereof might be admitted.
Page 234 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.

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