application of the general rule in Vermont

1930R. 1005, and In re Tucker’s Will, 63 Vt. 104, 105 , 21 Atl. 272 , 25 A. S. R. 743, were eases calling for the application of the general rule, and we held therein that the members of the respective classes were to be determined at the death of the testators.

1920In re Bugbee’s Will, 92 Vt. 175, 182 , 102 Atl. 484 .

1920In re Bugbee’s Will, 92 Vt. 175, 182 , 102 Atl. 484 .

1918In disposing of this question it is not necessary to consider the application of the general rule of construction that general words used in a statute will not apply to a state to the detriment of sovereign rights or interests unless such an intent clearly appears from the language used (see State Treasurer v. Weeks, 4 Vt. 215 ; Gibson v. Choutau, 13 Wall. 92 , 20 L. ed. 534); nor need we consider the facts of record on which the claim of such prescriptive right is based; for the earliest time when cany artificial means of controlling the flow of water from the lake is found to have existed, w

1918In disposing of this question it is not necessary to consider the application of the general rule of construction that general words used in a statute will not apply to a state to the detriment of sovereign rights or interests unless such an intent clearly appears from the language used (see State Treasurer v. Weeks, 4 Vt. 215 ; Gibson v. Choutau, 13 Wall. 92 , 20 L. ed. 534); nor need we consider the facts of record on which the claim of such prescriptive right is based; for the earliest time when cany artificial means of controlling the flow of water from the lake is found to have existed, w

1904The following cases are cited: Armstrong v. Tollar, 11 Wheat, 269; Craig v. Missouri, 4 Pet. 410 ; Roby v. West, 4 N. H. 290; Patterson v. Nicholas, 3 Wheat. 204 ; Wooten v. Miller, 7 S. & M. 385 ; Wheeler v. Russell, 17 Mass. 258 ; Sheffner v. Gordon, 12 East, 304; Brooks v. Martin, 2 Wall. 79 ; McBlair v. Gibbs, 17 How. 236 ; Tennant v. Elliot, 1 Bos. & Pul. 3; Turner v. Russell , 2 Bos. and Pul. 2 9 6.

1904The following cases are cited: Armstrong v. Tollar, 11 Wheat, 269; Craig v. Missouri, 4 Pet. 410 ; Roby v. West, 4 N. H. 290; Patterson v. Nicholas, 3 Wheat. 204 ; Wooten v. Miller, 7 S. & M. 385 ; Wheeler v. Russell, 17 Mass. 258 ; Sheffner v. Gordon, 12 East, 304; Brooks v. Martin, 2 Wall. 79 ; McBlair v. Gibbs, 17 How. 236 ; Tennant v. Elliot, 1 Bos. & Pul. 3; Turner v. Russell , 2 Bos. and Pul. 2 9 6.

1899Collamer, J., remarked in Corinth v. Newbury, 13 Vt. 496 , “But the existence and extent of a town as a municipal corporation, with all its civil privileges and duties, depend, not on the charter, but on laws, subject to constant changes, and its geographical limits liable to alteration.

1899Pierpoini, J., in discussing the subject of the settlement of paupers, upon the annexation of the territory upon which they resided in one town to another town, though not deciding this point, said that such persons were left to the application of the general principle applicable to such cases; that the rule established in other states having pauper laws similar to ours was, “that such persons stand in the same relation to the town to which the territory in which they lived was annexed, as regards their settlement therein, as they occupied to the town from which such territory was taken, there

1899It was said in the opinion in State v. Gorham, 67 Vt. 365 , that a jury must know without instruction that the more the testimony shows against another the less it shows against the respondent.

1858The cases of Warner v. McGary, 4 Vt. 507 , and of Walker v. Ferrin, 4 Vt. 523 , though not directly deciding the question, as they finally turned upon other points, strongly indicate that the court intended to recognize such an application of the general principle.

1858The cases of Warner v. McGary, 4 Vt. 507 , and of Walker v. Ferrin, 4 Vt. 523 , though not directly deciding the question, as they finally turned upon other points, strongly indicate that the court intended to recognize such an application of the general principle.