The Supreme Court Reporter, Volumes 3-4West Publishing Company, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... MENT IN PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURING MIDDLINGS FLOUR . By section 24 of the act of 1870 , it was provided that any person who had invented any new and useful art , machine , manufacture , or composition of matter not known or used by ...
... MENT IN PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURING MIDDLINGS FLOUR . By section 24 of the act of 1870 , it was provided that any person who had invented any new and useful art , machine , manufacture , or composition of matter not known or used by ...
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... ment , carry into effect such a rule of disqualification . In the Virginia , case , the state , through its officer , enforced a rule of disqualification which the law was intended to abrogate and counteract . Whether the statute - book ...
... ment , carry into effect such a rule of disqualification . In the Virginia , case , the state , through its officer , enforced a rule of disqualification which the law was intended to abrogate and counteract . Whether the statute - book ...
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... ment , became citizens of the United States prior to the adoption of the fourteenth amendment . But , in the view which I take of the present case , it is not necessary to examine this question . The terms of the thirteenth amendment ...
... ment , became citizens of the United States prior to the adoption of the fourteenth amendment . But , in the view which I take of the present case , it is not necessary to examine this question . The terms of the thirteenth amendment ...
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... ment . Before the adoption of the recent amendments it had become , as we have seen , the established doctrine of this court that negroes , whose ancestors had been imported and sold as slaves , could not be- come citizens of a state ...
... ment . Before the adoption of the recent amendments it had become , as we have seen , the established doctrine of this court that negroes , whose ancestors had been imported and sold as slaves , could not be- come citizens of a state ...
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... ment this writ of error was brought . At a former term Daniel moved to dismiss because the value of the matter in dispute did not exceed $ 5,000 . That motion was continued for hearing with the case on its merits . We decided at the ...
... ment this writ of error was brought . At a former term Daniel moved to dismiss because the value of the matter in dispute did not exceed $ 5,000 . That motion was continued for hearing with the case on its merits . We decided at the ...
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Page 37 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 36 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 412 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States, shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 342 - ... along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface...
Page 10 - ... in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same...
Page 388 - States," in those of equity and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity and to courts of admiralty respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law...
Page 263 - All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act, shall be severally, individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders, to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of capital stock fixed and limited by such company shall have been paid in...
Page 71 - All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.
Page 401 - ... set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit amongst them...
Page 25 - In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported by State authority in the shape of laws, customs, or Judicial or executive proceedings.