 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 448 pages
...act of the legislature, wherever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, when either of the parties engages to per- 199. form a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, 2*not the judicial department... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 452 pages
...act of the legislature, wherever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, when either of the parties engages to per- 199. form a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, ***• not the judicial... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself, without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...execute the contract before it can become a rule for the court. Id. ibid. TREBLE COSTS. In practice. A rate of costs given in certain actions, consisting, according... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 540 pages
...act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...political, not the judicial department; and the legislature rnjisi execute the contract before it can become a rule for the court. ^f The article under consideration... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...act of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...the treaty addresses itself to the political, not to the judicial department; and the Legislature must execute the contract before it cuu become a rule... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1871 - 924 pages
...act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. @ court. (Ibid.) By the stipulations of a treaty are to be understood its language and apparent intention,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1871 - 934 pages
...aid of any legislative provision. But, when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, íTÍien either of the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty undresses itself to the political, not the judicial department; and the legislature must execute the... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 774 pages
...Act of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...act, the treaty addresses itself to the political and not the judicial department; and the Legislature must execute the contract before it can become... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...contract, and not a legislative act ; in cases of this kind it addresses itself to the political, not to the judicial department ; and the Legislature must...execute the contract before it can become a rule for the court. \ But there are many other cases where the treaty is to be regarded not as a contract but as... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 672 pages
...equivalent to an Act of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself, without any legislative provision. But, when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...to the political, not the judicial, department, and then the Legislature must execute the contract before it can become a rule for the Court (Peters' Kep.,... | |
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Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the... 
