Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, Book 20Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1918 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... existence is considered as an in- habitant , when the general spirit and purpose of the law require it . " If it be so for the purposes of taxation , why is it not so for the purposes of a suit in the circuit court of the United States ...
... existence is considered as an in- habitant , when the general spirit and purpose of the law require it . " If it be so for the purposes of taxation , why is it not so for the purposes of a suit in the circuit court of the United States ...
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... existence outside of the sov- Ohio & ereignty by which it was created . Miss . R. Co. v . Wheeler , 1 Black , 286 , 17 L. ed . 130 ; Louisville R. Co. v . Letson , 2 How . 497. Its place of residence is there , and can be nowhere else ...
... existence outside of the sov- Ohio & ereignty by which it was created . Miss . R. Co. v . Wheeler , 1 Black , 286 , 17 L. ed . 130 ; Louisville R. Co. v . Letson , 2 How . 497. Its place of residence is there , and can be nowhere else ...
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... existence of the war and the law of nations pended during the period the creditor is prohibited inal jurisdiction , cannot be re - examined in an from enforcing his claim . appellate court upon a writ of error . Liter v . Green , 2 ...
... existence of the war and the law of nations pended during the period the creditor is prohibited inal jurisdiction , cannot be re - examined in an from enforcing his claim . appellate court upon a writ of error . Liter v . Green , 2 ...
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... existence of the war and the law of nations from enforcing his claim . On the 27th of July , 1868 , the plaintiffs in the court below commenced an action of as- sumpsit against the present plaintiff on three promissory notes , signed at ...
... existence of the war and the law of nations from enforcing his claim . On the 27th of July , 1868 , the plaintiffs in the court below commenced an action of as- sumpsit against the present plaintiff on three promissory notes , signed at ...
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... existence in fact . But | fact that it embodies every point noticed in the the court overruled the pleas of prescription and of want of protest urged by the defendant . The said counsel furthermore urged that the plaintiff failed to ...
... existence in fact . But | fact that it embodies every point noticed in the the court overruled the pleas of prescription and of want of protest urged by the defendant . The said counsel furthermore urged that the plaintiff failed to ...
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Page 21 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 68 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 184 - To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 70 - Moines; thence, down, and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines, to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence, down, and following the course of the Mississippi river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning.
Page 76 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 27 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State.60 Fourth.
Page 194 - A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public.
Page 229 - If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
Page 78 - The powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.' The government of the United States, therefore, can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the constitution, and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Page 31 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.