 | United States - Constitutions - 1969 - 348 pages
...be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward":...under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdiction as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted,... | |
 | James Madison - Presidents - 1962 - 608 pages
...admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states." Article IX further stipulated that "no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the united states" (/CC, XIX, 218, 221). See also /CC, XVIII, 915; Papers of Madison, V, 246, n. 7. For the first rime... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 396 pages
...the most valuable contribution extant upon the historical and legal aspects of Virginia's title. feet that "no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States." At the time the treaty of peace of 1783 was negotiated there was much anxiety as to whether the western... | |
 | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry - History - 1985 - 740 pages
...Confederation, ROC, 1:86. 3. The second paragraph of Article IX of the Articles of Confederation stipulates that "no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the united states." Ibid., p. 90. 4. A reference to the boundaries of the United States as described in the Preliminary... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - History - 1985 - 276 pages
...by giving the land to the United States. The landed states naturally objected. The Articles provided that "no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States." Congress formally adopted the Articles on 15 November 1777 and sent them to the states for ratification.... | |
 | Benjamin L. DeWhitt - Government publications - 1989 - 400 pages
...through an elaborate procedure set forth in article 9 of the Articles. Article 9 also provided that "All controversies concerning the private right of...claimed under different grants of two or more states . . . shall on the petition of either party to the congress ... be finally determined as near as may... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour, affection or hope of reward:" provided also, that...of territory for the benefit of the united states. as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants... | |
 | Robert A. Williams Jr. - Law - 1992 - 365 pages
...claims to the West, offered the following clause to the delegates at the Congress as a compromise: "that no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States."13 Lee's amendment was based on the simple principle of maintaining a presently undefined status... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1999 - 374 pages
...Well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgement, without favor, affection, or hope of reward :' Provided,...of territory for the benefit of the United States. - AE controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Law - 1999 - 836 pages
...judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward."* , Sect. 3. All controversies concerning lands claimed under different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdictions, as they respect such lands shall have been decided or adjusted subsequent l to such grants, or any of them,... | |
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... take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the state, where the cause shall be tried, 'well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor,... 
