A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity, and Admiralty, of the Courts of the United States: From the Oganization of the Government in 1789 to 1847, in the Supreme, Circuit, District and Admiralty Courts; Reported in Dallas, Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, and Howard's Supreme Court Reports; in Gallison, Mason, Paine, Peters, Washington, Wallace, Sumner, Story, Baldwin, Brockenbrough, and M'Lean's Circuit Court Reports; and in Bees, Ware, Peters, and Gilpin's District and Admiralty Reports, Volumen2Lewis & Blood, 1860 |
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... congress passed an act giving to the widow of any officer who had died in the naval service of the United States , authority to receive out of the navy pen- sion fund , half the monthly pay to which the deceased officer would have been ...
... congress passed an act giving to the widow of any officer who had died in the naval service of the United States , authority to receive out of the navy pen- sion fund , half the monthly pay to which the deceased officer would have been ...
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... congress grants lands , in words of present grant . The general rule applies as well to pre - emptions , as to other purchases of public lands . Ibid . 8. The act of the legislature of Illinois , giving a right to the holder of a ...
... congress grants lands , in words of present grant . The general rule applies as well to pre - emptions , as to other purchases of public lands . Ibid . 8. The act of the legislature of Illinois , giving a right to the holder of a ...
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... Congress must possess the choice of means ; and must be empowered to use any means which are in fact conducive to the exercise of a power granted by the constitution . Ibid . 5. The government is to pay the debts of the Union , and must ...
... Congress must possess the choice of means ; and must be empowered to use any means which are in fact conducive to the exercise of a power granted by the constitution . Ibid . 5. The government is to pay the debts of the Union , and must ...
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... congress . Ibid . 17. The clause in the act of incorporation of the Bank of the United States , which authorizes the bank to sue in the federal courts , is warranted by the third article of the constitution of the United States , which ...
... congress . Ibid . 17. The clause in the act of incorporation of the Bank of the United States , which authorizes the bank to sue in the federal courts , is warranted by the third article of the constitution of the United States , which ...
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... act of congress of 1803 , ch . 2 , sec . 2. Held , that the certificate of the consul was not admissible evidence to prove the arrival or departure of the vessel . Ibid . 50. The interest of a copartnership cannot be given in evidence ...
... act of congress of 1803 , ch . 2 , sec . 2. Held , that the certificate of the consul was not admissible evidence to prove the arrival or departure of the vessel . Ibid . 50. The interest of a copartnership cannot be given in evidence ...
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Página 43 - ... then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Página 114 - This clause enables the Judicial Department to receive jurisdiction to the full extent of the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, when any question respecting them shall assume such a form that the judicial power is capable of acting on it. That power is •capable of acting only when the subject is submitted to it by a party who asserts his rights in the form prescribed by law. It then becomes a case, and the Constitution declares that the judicial power shall extend to all cases...
Página 117 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Página 179 - It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains, and consequently can never be construed to violate neutral rights, or to affect neutral commerce, further than is warranted by the law of nations as understood in this country.
Página 117 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity ; or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption, specially set up or claimed by either party under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Página 181 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existVOL.
Página 123 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State.
Página 102 - If the remedy at law . is sufficient, equity cannot give relief, "but it is not enough that * there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or. in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.
Página 127 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Página 306 - ... for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted...