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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... record shows that the evidence of the indebtedness of the state to the deceased for that amount was de- livered to B. Liarrison on the same day the ad- justment was made . 385 * ] * Prior to that adjustment , to wit , on the 29th of ...
... record shows that the evidence of the indebtedness of the state to the deceased for that amount was de- livered to B. Liarrison on the same day the ad- justment was made . 385 * ] * Prior to that adjustment , to wit , on the 29th of ...
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... record in this cause was filed in this court Oct. 29 , 1869. A motion was made at the December term , 1870 , to ... record and proceedings in the cause . In admiralty , amendments are freely allowed . It is the settled practice in ...
... record in this cause was filed in this court Oct. 29 , 1869. A motion was made at the December term , 1870 , to ... record and proceedings in the cause . In admiralty , amendments are freely allowed . It is the settled practice in ...
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United States. Supreme Court. The whole record and proceedings being then before this court , and the trial being de ... record must show upon writ of error to a state court -- see notes , 63 L. R. A. 329 . 471 . would not have given a ...
United States. Supreme Court. The whole record and proceedings being then before this court , and the trial being de ... record must show upon writ of error to a state court -- see notes , 63 L. R. A. 329 . 471 . would not have given a ...
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... record , but it is incompetent to originate the question within the true construction of the 25th section . [ No. 164. ] Submitted Jan. 31 , 1871. Decided Feb. 6 , 1871 . IN ERROR to the Supreme Court of Illinois . IN On motion to ...
... record , but it is incompetent to originate the question within the true construction of the 25th section . [ No. 164. ] Submitted Jan. 31 , 1871. Decided Feb. 6 , 1871 . IN ERROR to the Supreme Court of Illinois . IN On motion to ...
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... record , then the supreme court of the state can give the jurisdiction in every case where the ques- tion is made by counsel in the argument . The office of the certificate , as it respects the Fed- eral question , is to make more ...
... record , then the supreme court of the state can give the jurisdiction in every case where the ques- tion is made by counsel in the argument . The office of the certificate , as it respects the Fed- eral question , is to make more ...
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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.