A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity, and Admiralty, of the Courts of the United States: From the Oganization of the Government in 1789 to 1847, in the Supreme, Circuit, District and Admiralty Courts; Reported in Dallas, Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, and Howard's Supreme Court Reports; in Gallison, Mason, Paine, Peters, Washington, Wallace, Sumner, Story, Baldwin, Brockenbrough, and M'Lean's Circuit Court Reports; and in Bees, Ware, Peters, and Gilpin's District and Admiralty Reports, Volume 2Lewis & Blood, 1860 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... cargo . Crawford v . The William Penn , 3 Wash . C. C. R. 484 . 20. A bottomry bond can be entered into by the ship - master only under circumstances of great distress , and when he has no other means of repairing the ship . The Ship ...
... cargo . Crawford v . The William Penn , 3 Wash . C. C. R. 484 . 20. A bottomry bond can be entered into by the ship - master only under circumstances of great distress , and when he has no other means of repairing the ship . The Ship ...
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... cargo , although in a recital in the bond it is stated , that the master was necessitated to take the sum loaned on the vessel , her cargo , and freight . If the omission was by mistake , and so stated in the libel , it might be ...
... cargo , although in a recital in the bond it is stated , that the master was necessitated to take the sum loaned on the vessel , her cargo , and freight . If the omission was by mistake , and so stated in the libel , it might be ...
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... cargo , and after a detention of seven months in Ireland , purchased a return cargo in England , sailed for the United States , and was captured by an American privateer . The vessel and cargo were condemned as prize to the captors ...
... cargo , and after a detention of seven months in Ireland , purchased a return cargo in England , sailed for the United States , and was captured by an American privateer . The vessel and cargo were condemned as prize to the captors ...
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... cargo there , the vessel and cargo are liable to confiscation for trading with the enemy . The Alexander , 1 Gallis . C. C. R. 532 . 22. If an American vessel , after knowledge of the war , proceed from a neutral to a hostile port on ...
... cargo there , the vessel and cargo are liable to confiscation for trading with the enemy . The Alexander , 1 Gallis . C. C. R. 532 . 22. If an American vessel , after knowledge of the war , proceed from a neutral to a hostile port on ...
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... cargo . An involuntary arrival , by stress of wea- ther , does not constitute an importation . The Mary and Cargo , 1 Gallis . C. C. R. 206 . 2. A coming into port with a cargo , is prima facie an importation . Ibid . 3. Goods of ...
... cargo . An involuntary arrival , by stress of wea- ther , does not constitute an importation . The Mary and Cargo , 1 Gallis . C. C. R. 206 . 2. A coming into port with a cargo , is prima facie an importation . Ibid . 3. Goods of ...
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Page 43 - ... then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 114 - This clause enables the Judicial Department to receive jurisdiction to the full extent of the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, when any question respecting them shall assume such a form that the judicial power is capable of acting on it. That power is •capable of acting only when the subject is submitted to it by a party who asserts his rights in the form prescribed by law. It then becomes a case, and the Constitution declares that the judicial power shall extend to all cases...
Page 117 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United 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...
Page 179 - It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains, and consequently can never be construed to violate neutral rights, or to affect neutral commerce, further than is warranted by the law of nations as understood in this country.
Page 117 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity ; or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption, specially set up or claimed by either party under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Page 181 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existVOL.
Page 123 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State.
Page 102 - If the remedy at law . is sufficient, equity cannot give relief, "but it is not enough that * there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or. in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.
Page 127 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Page 306 - ... for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted...