Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 8; Volume 75W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1870 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... APPEAL from the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , the case being this : In November , 1864 , Thorington being the owner of a piece of land adjoining the city of Montgomery , Alabama , sold it to Smith and Hartley , all ...
... APPEAL from the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , the case being this : In November , 1864 , Thorington being the owner of a piece of land adjoining the city of Montgomery , Alabama , sold it to Smith and Hartley , all ...
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... appeal , were these : 1. Can a contract for the payment of Confederate ' notes , made during the late rebellion , between parties residing within the so - called Confederate States , be enforced at all in the courts of the United States ...
... appeal , were these : 1. Can a contract for the payment of Confederate ' notes , made during the late rebellion , between parties residing within the so - called Confederate States , be enforced at all in the courts of the United States ...
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... appeal are these : ( 1. ) Can a contract for the payment of Confederate notes , made during the late rebellion , between parties residing within the so - called Confederate States , be enforced at all in the courts of the United States ...
... appeal are these : ( 1. ) Can a contract for the payment of Confederate notes , made during the late rebellion , between parties residing within the so - called Confederate States , be enforced at all in the courts of the United States ...
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... appeal from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia . It was the case of DEAN U. YOUNELL'S ADMINISTRATOR . A bill had been filed below to set aside a deed of land for fraud and inadequate consideration . The allegations ...
... appeal from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia . It was the case of DEAN U. YOUNELL'S ADMINISTRATOR . A bill had been filed below to set aside a deed of land for fraud and inadequate consideration . The allegations ...
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... appeal , where the question of merits was briefly urged , the point of jurisdiction being really the only question . It was admitted , that by the law of Canada , where this damage was done , no lien or any action exists against a ...
... appeal , where the question of merits was briefly urged , the point of jurisdiction being really the only question . It was admitted , that by the law of Canada , where this damage was done , no lien or any action exists against a ...
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Page 389 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 48 - States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity...
Page 170 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 172 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 133 - ... that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 86 - States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 630 - Constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future time execute its powers would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable...
Page 14 - It follows that the decree of the Circuit Court must be REVERSED, and the cause remanded, for further hearing and decree, in conformity with this opinion.
Page 630 - If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable.
Page 183 - Issuing a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce. The policies are simple contracts of idemnity against loss by fire, entered into between the corporations and the assured, for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts are not articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the word.