Albany Law Journal, Volume 7Weed, Parsons & Company, 1873 - Law |
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... jurisdictions , sixteen or seventeen in number . will be then in Egypt the most perfect judicature in the world , consisting of one uniform system of tri- bunals , having jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases , over natives and ...
... jurisdictions , sixteen or seventeen in number . will be then in Egypt the most perfect judicature in the world , consisting of one uniform system of tri- bunals , having jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases , over natives and ...
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... jurisdiction " so that each practitioner can tell at a glance whether any proposi- tion is accepted in his own State . " This method of writing a treatise has not only the merit of utility , but is also growing in favor among all ...
... jurisdiction " so that each practitioner can tell at a glance whether any proposi- tion is accepted in his own State . " This method of writing a treatise has not only the merit of utility , but is also growing in favor among all ...
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... that he has already been retained to prosecute seventeen suits in accounts against the city which Comptroller Green refuses to pay on the ground of illegality . change , alter or add to the jurisdiction of the 16 THE ALBANY LAW JOURNAL .
... that he has already been retained to prosecute seventeen suits in accounts against the city which Comptroller Green refuses to pay on the ground of illegality . change , alter or add to the jurisdiction of the 16 THE ALBANY LAW JOURNAL .
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change , alter or add to the jurisdiction of the United States courts , nor deprive any suitor in those courts of any substantial right conferred upon him by any act of congress ; nor will we hold that any positive statutory regulation ...
change , alter or add to the jurisdiction of the United States courts , nor deprive any suitor in those courts of any substantial right conferred upon him by any act of congress ; nor will we hold that any positive statutory regulation ...
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... jurisdiction , at least until proceedings have been instituted in bank- ruptcy , and to this effect are Martin v . Berry , 37 Cal . 208 , and Meekins v . Creditors , 19 La . Ann . 497. It is held otherwise in The matter of Reynolds , 5 ...
... jurisdiction , at least until proceedings have been instituted in bank- ruptcy , and to this effect are Martin v . Berry , 37 Cal . 208 , and Meekins v . Creditors , 19 La . Ann . 497. It is held otherwise in The matter of Reynolds , 5 ...
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Page 296 - Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax, shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied ; and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
Page 111 - ... in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party or directly or indirectly interested, before any department, court-martial, bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever...
Page 86 - The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine; The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Page 290 - And Quoting from the language of Chief Justice Taney in another case, it is said "that for all the great purposes for which the federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States;" and it is, as such citizens, that their rights are supported in this court in Crandall vs.
Page 290 - ... by the federal Constitution. The right to use the navigable waters of the United States, however they may penetrate the territory of the several States, all rights secured to our citizens by treaties with foreign nations, are dependent upon citizenship of the United States, and not citizenship of a State.
Page 248 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without a premeditated design to effect the death of any individual...
Page 237 - ... contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Page 63 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 120 - WHOLE, the inference seems to be conclusive, that the State Courts would have a concurrent jurisdiction? in all cases arising under the laws of the Union, where it was not expressly prohibited.
Page 404 - There is considerable authority for the statement that the Courts are not at liberty to declare an Act void because in their opinion it is opposed to a spirit supposed to pervade the constitution but not expressed in words.