Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 61Banks Law Publishing, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 85
... navigable stream , according to common - law meaning of the term . But a grant of land on or bounded by such a stream as this , passes the right to the land to the middle of the stream . The use of the water also , as an incident ...
... navigable stream , according to common - law meaning of the term . But a grant of land on or bounded by such a stream as this , passes the right to the land to the middle of the stream . The use of the water also , as an incident ...
Page 86
... navigable , and the bill alleges that from time immemorial the grantors of plaintiff and himself used the water to supply this place , and to trans- port cotton and supplies to and from his place . Mr. Carlisle , after commenting upon ...
... navigable , and the bill alleges that from time immemorial the grantors of plaintiff and himself used the water to supply this place , and to trans- port cotton and supplies to and from his place . Mr. Carlisle , after commenting upon ...
Page 88
... navigable rivers leading into the same , shall be common highways , and forever free , as well to the inhabitants of Mississippi as to other citizens of the United States . To this bill a demurrer was interposed by the defendants in ...
... navigable rivers leading into the same , shall be common highways , and forever free , as well to the inhabitants of Mississippi as to other citizens of the United States . To this bill a demurrer was interposed by the defendants in ...
Page 92
... navigable waters flowing into this river , could not have been designed to inhibit the power in- separable from every sovereign or efficient Government , to devise and to execute measures for the improvement of the State , although such ...
... navigable waters flowing into this river , could not have been designed to inhibit the power in- separable from every sovereign or efficient Government , to devise and to execute measures for the improvement of the State , although such ...
Page 93
... navigable river flowing into the Mississippi . Any improvement , there- fore , in the facilities of reaching the Mississippi by another river , cannot be an obstruction in what never was , in any cor- rect sense of the phrase , a navigable ...
... navigable river flowing into the Mississippi . Any improvement , there- fore , in the facilities of reaching the Mississippi by another river , cannot be an obstruction in what never was , in any cor- rect sense of the phrase , a navigable ...
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Page 215 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Page 329 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burden, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas...
Page 92 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 91 - 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 91 - The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best adapted to their situation, and best calculated to promote their interests. The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself ; and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and, we think, necessarily, applicable to the government created by the instrument. They are limitations of power granted in the instrument itself ; not of distinct governments,...
Page 31 - In this action the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, not on the weakness of that of his adversary.
Page 14 - All persons, (Africans, the descendants of Africans, and Indians excepted,) who were residing in Texas on the day of the Declaration of Independence, shall be considered citizens of the Republic, and entitled to all the privileges of such.
Page 570 - We hold the true principle to be this, that whenever the question in any Court, state or federal, is whether a title to land which had once been the property of the United States has passed, that question must be resolved by the laws of the United States; but that whenever, according to those laws, the title shall have passed, then that property, like all other property in the state, is subject to state legislation; so far as that legislation is consistent with the admission that the title passed...
Page 155 - Within five years, an action upon a judgment or decree of any court of the United States, or of any state or territory within the United States. Within four years, an action upon any contract, obligation, or liability founded upon an instrument of writing, except those mentioned in the preceding section.
Page iv - Whenever the plaintiff and defendant in a writ of error pending in this court, or the appellant and appellee in an appeal, shall in vacation, by their attorneys of record, sign and file with the clerk an agreement in writing directing the case to be dismissed, and specifying the terms on which it is to be dismissed as to costs, and shall pay to the clerk any fees that may be due to him, it shall be the duty...