Pax NATO: The Opportunities of Enlargement
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ISBN10: 1234196727
ISBN13: 9781234196721
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781234196721
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...to the select council, or twenty in number, being present; that said convention, after being duly organized, was regularly adjourned without electing a city solicitor, until April 18, and that on the latter date the convention reassembled and held an election, at which the relator, having received the votes of twenty-two councilmen, being the votes of a majority of all the members chosen to both branches of the councils, was elected city solicitor; whereupon the convention adjourned without day. If the matters thus averred be true the relator was elected in the manner required by the statute; for they show specifically Commonwealth ex rel. Torrey v. Chittenden et al., Select Council, etc. a joint convention, held at the proper time, regularly organized, its action adjourned to a day certain, and on that day the election of the relator by the vote of a majority of all the members chosen to both branches of the councils. In stating the matters set up in answer to these averments, the respondents are held, under the well-established principles of pleading, to the highest degree of certainty-- certainty to a certain intent in every particular. The return must be neither evasive nor argumentative, nor is it sufficient that it should point to a mere general conclusion. In its statement of matters set up against the petition, it must be specific, direct, positive and certain. It must omit nothing and leave nothing to inference. The return avers that It is not true that there was a joint convention of councils April 18, adding, Nor was James H. Torrey, the petitioner, on that day or any other day elected by a joint convention of councils. It admits that the relator received twenty-two votes on April...