The American Law Register, Volume 2; Volume 11D.B. Canfield & Company, 1863 - Electronic journals |
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... check to take up the note secured by the mortgage to save it being protested , it was held no extinguishment of the security . Rogers vs. The Traders ' Insurance Company , 6 Paige R. 583 . 14. In some late cases this allowance of ...
... check to take up the note secured by the mortgage to save it being protested , it was held no extinguishment of the security . Rogers vs. The Traders ' Insurance Company , 6 Paige R. 583 . 14. In some late cases this allowance of ...
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... check his train , and that the engine ran against an object which was put upon the track suddenly ( on a trot ) , and when the engineer had no reason to anticipate or try to avoid hitting it . It would seem difficult to that there was ...
... check his train , and that the engine ran against an object which was put upon the track suddenly ( on a trot ) , and when the engineer had no reason to anticipate or try to avoid hitting it . It would seem difficult to that there was ...
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... checks drawn upon the bank , cannot certify his own checks when he has no funds to his credit , so as to make the bank liable . The rule of the law of agency is applicable , that an agent cannot put himself in a position of hos- tility ...
... checks drawn upon the bank , cannot certify his own checks when he has no funds to his credit , so as to make the bank liable . The rule of the law of agency is applicable , that an agent cannot put himself in a position of hos- tility ...
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... checks respectively , and that the plaintiffs so received said checks in good faith , and have ever since held the same . That they were presented for payment December 1st , 1854 , at defendants ' bank , and payment refused . The checks ...
... checks respectively , and that the plaintiffs so received said checks in good faith , and have ever since held the same . That they were presented for payment December 1st , 1854 , at defendants ' bank , and payment refused . The checks ...
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... checks of Houghton , the defendants ' president , of $ 5500 and $ 10,000 , made and accepted by him . The power given him by the by - law to certify checks clearly did not authorize him to certify his own checks . It is a necessary and ...
... checks of Houghton , the defendants ' president , of $ 5500 and $ 10,000 , made and accepted by him . The power given him by the by - law to certify checks clearly did not authorize him to certify his own checks . It is a necessary and ...
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Page 228 - 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 340 - ex majore cautela" and in anticipation of such astute objections, passing an act "approving, legalizing, and making valid all the acts, proclamations, and orders of the President, &c., as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States.
Page 231 - That the circuit courts 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...
Page 756 - The general government, and the States, although both exist within the same territorial limits, are separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres. The former in its appropriate sphere is supreme; but the States within the limits of their powers not granted, or, in the language of the Tenth Amendment, "reserved," are as independent of the general government as that government within its sphere is independent of the States.
Page 231 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 338 - The Constitution confers on the President the whole executive power. He is bound to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. He is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States. He has no power to initiate or declare a war, either against a foreign nation or a domestic State.
Page 616 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; but does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Page 231 - And any attachment of the goods or estate of the defendant, by the original process, shall hold the goods or estate so attached to answer the final judgment, in the same manner as by the laws of such State they would have been holden to answer final judgment, had it been rendered by the court in which the suit was commenced.
Page 339 - WHEREAS we are happily at peace with all sovereigns, powers, and states : And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America...
Page 41 - If the states may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government.