Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States: 1-351 U.S; 1790- October term, 1955, Book 18Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 40
... present plaintiff was bound to do before he purchased and , therefore , he was bound to inquire whether the Act had acquired the force of a statute before the bonds were executed . Indeed , The Act of the Legislature before the court as ...
... present plaintiff was bound to do before he purchased and , therefore , he was bound to inquire whether the Act had acquired the force of a statute before the bonds were executed . Indeed , The Act of the Legislature before the court as ...
Page 64
... present defendant in the Circuit Court of the County of Milwaukee against Knab , to compel him to convey the title held by him to these lots founded upon his bond , to Butler , which had been assigned to Orton ; and such proceedings ...
... present defendant in the Circuit Court of the County of Milwaukee against Knab , to compel him to convey the title held by him to these lots founded upon his bond , to Butler , which had been assigned to Orton ; and such proceedings ...
Page 70
... present suit , and on both occasions he swore to substantially the same matters . James H. Rees ' testimony in the ejectment suit was to show a great sacrifice of the proper- ty at the execution sale . It was agreed in the present case ...
... present suit , and on both occasions he swore to substantially the same matters . James H. Rees ' testimony in the ejectment suit was to show a great sacrifice of the proper- ty at the execution sale . It was agreed in the present case ...
Page 77
... present suit is brought ; but in which elder pat- ent the improvement was not claimed ; and in- sisted that the description and the omission to claim in the earlier patent , operated as an aban- donment or dedication of it to the public ...
... present suit is brought ; but in which elder pat- ent the improvement was not claimed ; and in- sisted that the description and the omission to claim in the earlier patent , operated as an aban- donment or dedication of it to the public ...
Page 84
... present action is brought . Municipal corporations differ from private cor- porations only in the purpose of their creation . They are equally dependent for their existence and the powers they can exercise , upon the leg- islative will ...
... present action is brought . Municipal corporations differ from private cor- porations only in the purpose of their creation . They are equally dependent for their existence and the powers they can exercise , upon the leg- islative will ...
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Page 303 - The Constitution of the United States is a law 'for rulers and people equally in war and in peace and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 243 - The shareholders of each association formed under the provisions of this act, and of each existing bank or banking association that may accept the provisions of this act, shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 306 - As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration; for, if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction.
Page 351 - That the tax so imposed under the laws of any state upon the shares of any of the associations authorized by this act shall not exceed the rate imposed upon the shares in any of the banks organized under authority of the state where such association is located...
Page 390 - The question remains whether the plaintiff has made out his title; for he must recover (if at all) upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of his adversaries.
Page 252 - Every incorporated or other bank, and every person, firm, or company having a place of business where credits are opened by the deposit or collection of money or currency, subject to be paid or remitted upon draft, check, or order, or where money is advanced or loaned on stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of exchange, or promissory notes, or where stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of exchange, or promissory notes are received for discount or for sale, shall be regarded as a bank or as a banker...
Page 351 - ... in the assessment of taxes imposed by or under State authority at the place where such bank is located, and not elsewhere, but not at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State...
Page 369 - A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the act is termed a bill of pains and penalties.
Page 379 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Page 303 - Those great and good men foresaw that troublous times would arise, when rulers and people would become restive under restraint, and seek by sharp and decisive measures to accomplish ends deemed just and proper; and that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril, unless established by irrepealable law. The history of the world had taught them that what was done in the past might be attempted in the future.