Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 7; Volume 32Published for John Conrad and Company, 1854 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... evidence of offset before the * jury . Had the claim never been presented to the department , it could not have been [ * 2 admitted as evidence by the court . But , as it had been made out in form and presented to the proper accounting ...
... evidence of offset before the * jury . Had the claim never been presented to the department , it could not have been [ * 2 admitted as evidence by the court . But , as it had been made out in form and presented to the proper accounting ...
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... evidence an account against the defendant , settled at the treasury , upon which they claimed from the defendant a balance of nine hundred and eighty- eight dollars and ninety - four cents , with interest from August 3d , 1829 , the ...
... evidence an account against the defendant , settled at the treasury , upon which they claimed from the defendant a balance of nine hundred and eighty- eight dollars and ninety - four cents , with interest from August 3d , 1829 , the ...
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... evidence . In the case of the bank of the United States v . Dandridge , 12 Wheat . 69 , this court say , " we do not admit as a general proposition , that the acts of a corporation are invalid merely from an omission to have them ...
... evidence . In the case of the bank of the United States v . Dandridge , 12 Wheat . 69 , this court say , " we do not admit as a general proposition , that the acts of a corporation are invalid merely from an omission to have them ...
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... evidence to prove such usage , but the court permitted the evidence to be given . By the court : we see no grounds for objection against the usage offered to be proved , and the purpose for which it was so offered , as connected with ...
... evidence to prove such usage , but the court permitted the evidence to be given . By the court : we see no grounds for objection against the usage offered to be proved , and the purpose for which it was so offered , as connected with ...
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... evidence . " NAVY DEPARTMENT , 2d March , 1829 . " SIR - It was my intention , before I left the department , to have submitted to the consideration of the other commissioners of the navy hospital fund , your claim and account for ...
... evidence . " NAVY DEPARTMENT , 2d March , 1829 . " SIR - It was my intention , before I left the department , to have submitted to the consideration of the other commissioners of the navy hospital fund , your claim and account for ...
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Page 183 - 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 219 - 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 62 - 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 97 - Treasurer thereof, promising the payment of money to any person or persons, his, her or their order, or to bearer...
Page 73 - 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 63 - States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if the territories had remained under the dominion of his catholic majesty.
Page 232 - ... that every patent which shall be obtained pursuant to this act, for any invention, art, or discovery, which it shall afterwards appear had been known or used previous to such application for a patent, shall be utterly void.
Page 62 - ... 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. If this be the modern rule even in cases of conquest, who can doubt its application to the case of an amicable cession of territory?
Page 62 - A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property belonging to its inhabitants. The king cedes that only which belonged to him. Lands he had previously granted were not his to cede.