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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... letter to Mr. Fillebrown , expressing his views and opinions respecting his claims , which letter is probably dated on the 2d of March , 1829 , and now on file among the papers of the fund ; he then believed , and still believes , that ...
... letter to Mr. Fillebrown , expressing his views and opinions respecting his claims , which letter is probably dated on the 2d of March , 1829 , and now on file among the papers of the fund ; he then believed , and still believes , that ...
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... letter : [ * 34 " NAVY DEPARTMENT , 22d May , 1822 . " Mr. THOMAS FILLEBROWN , present : " SIR - In consideration of the duties performed by you since your appointment as secretary to the commissioners of navy hospitals , you may ...
... letter : [ * 34 " NAVY DEPARTMENT , 22d May , 1822 . " Mr. THOMAS FILLEBROWN , present : " SIR - In consideration of the duties performed by you since your appointment as secretary to the commissioners of navy hospitals , you may ...
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... letter of S. L. Southard to him , of the 7th of November , 1825 , as herein before stated ; that in that case , he was not entitled to any extra compensation for the disburse- ment of the moneys belonging to the said navy hospital fund ...
... letter of S. L. Southard to him , of the 7th of November , 1825 , as herein before stated ; that in that case , he was not entitled to any extra compensation for the disburse- ment of the moneys belonging to the said navy hospital fund ...
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... letter of Mr. Southard rela- tive to the appointment of the defendant as secretary to the board of commissioners of the navy hospital fund . The appointment was made on the 7th November , 1825 , and the compensation fixed at two hundred ...
... letter of Mr. Southard rela- tive to the appointment of the defendant as secretary to the board of commissioners of the navy hospital fund . The appointment was made on the 7th November , 1825 , and the compensation fixed at two hundred ...
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... letter of Mr. Southard , of the 22d May , 1826 , was in con- formity with the frequent usages of the government . This was fully proved by the evidence . This principle has also had the rati- fication of the legislature . The usual ...
... letter of Mr. Southard , of the 22d May , 1826 , was in con- formity with the frequent usages of the government . This was fully proved by the evidence . This principle has also had the rati- fication of the legislature . The usual ...
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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.