Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, Volume 9M. Curlander, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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9 App act of Congress action affirmed agreement alleged appeal appellee application Argument of Counsel assignment authority bill cause claim Commissioner of Patents Company complainant contract contributory negligence Court of Chancery court of equity custody damages decision declaration decree deed defendant defendant's delivered the opinion demurrer District of Columbia Drawbaugh duty effect entitled equity error evidence execution fact filed grant guardian habeas corpus Harmer heirs infant injury interest invention issue Jersey judgment jurisdiction jury Justice land Las Vegas libel matter ment Mitkiewicz motion negligence oleomargarine parties Patent Office payment person plaintiff proceedings proof purchase question Railroad Railroad Co real estate reason record recover reduction to practice referred replevin res judicata rule Secretary Slack Stat Statement statute Submitted suit Supreme Court Telegraph Telephone tenancy testator testimony therein thereof tion trial trust United verdict vice chancellor wife wire band
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Page 239 - ... in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same...
Page 79 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the United States.
Page 475 - But it is generally held, that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Page 276 - That it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general, under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Interior, to ascertain the origin, nature, character, and extent of all claims to lands under the laws, usages, and customs of Spain and Mexico...
Page 299 - The order of deportation is not a punishment for crime. It is not a banishment, in the sense in which that word is often applied to the expulsion of a citizen from his country by way of punishment. It is but a method of enforcing the return to his own country of an alien who has not complied with the conditions upon the performance of which the government of the nation, acting within its constitutional authority and through the proper departments, has determined that his continuing to reside here...
Page 201 - That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, as soon as may be practicable after the passage of this act, to make out an accurate list and plats of the lands described as aforesaid, and transmit the same to the Governor of the State...
Page 296 - That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, under any law or...
Page 238 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter...
Page 239 - On the filing of any such application and the payment of the fees required by law, the Commissioner of Patents shall cause an examination to be made of the alleged new invention or discovery ; and if on such examination it shall appear that the claimant is justly entitled to a patent under the law, and that the same is sufficiently useful and important, the Commissioner shall issue a patent therefor.
Page 238 - ... not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before his invention or discovery thereof...