Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 32Banks Law Publishing, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... amended petition , filed on the 14th of December 1830 , stated , that the register and receiver of the United States for East Florida , in their final report on the land - claims , transmitted on the 12th December 1828 , to the ...
... amended petition , filed on the 14th of December 1830 , stated , that the register and receiver of the United States for East Florida , in their final report on the land - claims , transmitted on the 12th December 1828 , to the ...
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... amend his bill . APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia in and for the county of Washington . This case was argued by Swann and Sampson , for the appellants ; and by Wirt and Dandridge , for the appellees . MARSHALL ...
... amend his bill . APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia in and for the county of Washington . This case was argued by Swann and Sampson , for the appellants ; and by Wirt and Dandridge , for the appellees . MARSHALL ...
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... amend his bill . * UNITED STATES v . ABEL TURNER . Criminal law . - Counterfeiting . Decree reversed . [ * 132 Indictment in the circuit court of North Carolina , for the forgery of , and an attempt to pass , & c . , a certain paper ...
... amend his bill . * UNITED STATES v . ABEL TURNER . Criminal law . - Counterfeiting . Decree reversed . [ * 132 Indictment in the circuit court of North Carolina , for the forgery of , and an attempt to pass , & c . , a certain paper ...
Page 91
... amend was made , had not been noticed of the proceeding , the court issued a writ of error coram vobis , and gave a judgment sustaining the same , and that the order extending the demise should be set aside . From this judgment , a writ ...
... amend was made , had not been noticed of the proceeding , the court issued a writ of error coram vobis , and gave a judgment sustaining the same , and that the order extending the demise should be set aside . From this judgment , a writ ...
Page 93
... amend . Many years had elapsed since entering a judg- ment in ejectment ; the term declared on had long since expired ; the terre - tenant was changed ; only one of the original defendants survived , and he had removed to a great ...
... amend . Many years had elapsed since entering a judg- ment in ejectment ; the term declared on had long since expired ; the terre - tenant was changed ; only one of the original defendants survived , and he had removed to a great ...
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Page 93 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
Page 151 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a constitution for itself, and in that constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated.
Page 54 - All the grants of land made before the 24th of January, 1818, by his Catholic Majesty, or by his lawful authorities in the said territories, ceded by his Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the game extent that the same grants would be valid, if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic Majesty.
Page 157 - These amendments contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the state governments. This court cannot so apply them.
Page 53 - His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, in full property and sovereignty, all the territories which belong to him, situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by the name of East and West Florida.
Page 419 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated Dissenting Opinion : Shiras, Field, JJ. and private rights annulled.
Page 420 - Had Florida changed its sovereign by an act containing no stipulation respecting the property of individuals, the right of property in all those who became subjects or citizens of the new government would have been unaffected by the change.
Page 183 - The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Page 63 - THIS cause came on to be heard, on the transcript of the record from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, and was argued by counsel : On consideration whereof, it is ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said district court in this cause be and the same is hereby...
Page 30 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.