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... taken place in a single day , it is per- fectly clear that no law applicable to accretion could have operated to transfer the territory in controversy from Ne- braska to Missouri . The jurisdiction of those States and the status of the ...
... taken place in a single day , it is per- fectly clear that no law applicable to accretion could have operated to transfer the territory in controversy from Ne- braska to Missouri . The jurisdiction of those States and the status of the ...
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... taken to be the middle of the channel of the Missouri River , as it has been since the avulsion of 1867 and now is , but must be taken to be the middle of the channel of the river as it was prior to such avulsion . We cannot see that ...
... taken to be the middle of the channel of the Missouri River , as it has been since the avulsion of 1867 and now is , but must be taken to be the middle of the channel of the river as it was prior to such avulsion . We cannot see that ...
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... taken as a per- petual , natural monument fixing the boundary line . We can- not accept this view . We perceive no reason to believe that Congress intended , either by the acts of 1820 and 1836 relat- ing to Missouri or the act ...
... taken as a per- petual , natural monument fixing the boundary line . We can- not accept this view . We perceive no reason to believe that Congress intended , either by the acts of 1820 and 1836 relat- ing to Missouri or the act ...
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... taken impression as to its necessity and purpose , vitiates it as an attestation . What use was intended to be made of it is immaterial , if it were useless for any purpose as an official certificate . The facts certified are ...
... taken impression as to its necessity and purpose , vitiates it as an attestation . What use was intended to be made of it is immaterial , if it were useless for any purpose as an official certificate . The facts certified are ...
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... E. Cunningham , a merchant of Lon- don , who appears to have taken temporary management of his affairs . He remained in the asylum about six weeks , and Opinion of the Court . 196 U. S. on February KEELY " . MOORE . 45.
... E. Cunningham , a merchant of Lon- don , who appears to have taken temporary management of his affairs . He remained in the asylum about six weeks , and Opinion of the Court . 196 U. S. on February KEELY " . MOORE . 45.
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Page 121 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 11 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 592 - America shall exercise due diligence to make the said vessel in all respects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped, and supplied, neither the vessel, her owner or owners, agent or charterers, shall become or be held responsible for damage or loss resulting from faults or errors in navigation or in the management of said vessel...
Page 83 - 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...
Page 340 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 13 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 342 - ... and locations on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall be invalid, but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.
Page 441 - ... and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, in all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States...
Page 16 - It is a modification of the ancient maxim, and amounts to this, that though -penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.
Page 349 - ... no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located.