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A statement of transactions made out by a creditor and presented to the debtor.
After the debtor has examined the account an...
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...All of the accounts stated between petitioner and its broker, E. A. Ra... at the time the particular account was rendered. A letter from the broker Rainold to petitioner, d...
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Madelung's authoritative account of the tangled Quraysh family events, rendered in a magisterial piece of scholarship, The Succession to Muhammad, is peerless. [...] what were the roles played by several family members, including 'Aishah, in all of these tragic developments?
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Deception is a regular feature of matters that give rise to legal conflict, and yet people do not think of cases with deception or fraud as a common element as doctrinally related. This article suggests that they can, in fact, usefully be thought of as a group. From that observation there follows the more abstract question of why judges have not thought of these cases as related. The common denominator of "deception" has not often motivated them to decide cases in ways that take into account decisions rendered in other deception cases. The aim of this article is to explain this sort of narrow judicial focus, or brand of "minimalism," and to argue that the reason for this selective minimalism is an important and unrecognized part of the common law process. Deception is hardly the only wi...
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James L. Swanson's "Manhunt" is a vividly rendered account of how John Wilkes Booth spent the last 12 days of his life trying to escape the law after shooting President Lincoln.
Although the book includes plenty of information about the assassination and about the attempted murder of Secretary of State William H. Seward, the main focus is on Booth the fugitive. "Manhunt" well may be the most detailed version yet of the brief time between the assassination and Booth's death. It certainly was for this reviewer.
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Judgment entry on liability. Negligence arising out of motor-vehicle collision. Judgment rendered in favor of plaintiff with a 50 percent reduction in damages to account for plaintiff’s contributory negligence.
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A child molester won a reduced sentence after successfully arguing to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, that his prison term was excessive because the trial court failed to take into account amended sodomy statutes enacted before the trial court rendered its decision.
The man lost his bid for total freedom, however, as the Eastern District denied his request to count his sentence served since he completed nine years in prison.
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Judgment entry. Magistrates July 28, 2009 recommendation adopted. Plaintiffs claims regarding exempt funds, going home pay, and indigent status dismissed and judgment rendered in favor of defendant on claim regarding interest on inmate account.