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United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott. Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1870 , BY BENJ . VAUGHAN ABBOTT , In the office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD , JR ...
United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott. Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1870 , BY BENJ . VAUGHAN ABBOTT , In the office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD , JR ...
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... Congress , the decisions of the Supreme Court , and those decisions of Circuit or District Courts which are not reviewed on writ of error or appeal ; in addition to which should be mentioned the determina- tions of the Court of Claims ...
... Congress , the decisions of the Supreme Court , and those decisions of Circuit or District Courts which are not reviewed on writ of error or appeal ; in addition to which should be mentioned the determina- tions of the Court of Claims ...
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... Congress of February 26 , 1845 , -which restricts admiralty jurisdiction on the lakes and interior navi- gable waters to contracts relating to vessels employed between ports in the different States , -as upon the more general ...
... Congress of February 26 , 1845 , -which restricts admiralty jurisdiction on the lakes and interior navi- gable waters to contracts relating to vessels employed between ports in the different States , -as upon the more general ...
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... Congress . I will briefly endeavor to ascertain whether this court has jurisdiction of the parties . In the case of State of Pennsylvania v . Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co. , 13 How . 516 , it was asserted in explicit language by Mr ...
... Congress . I will briefly endeavor to ascertain whether this court has jurisdiction of the parties . In the case of State of Pennsylvania v . Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co. , 13 How . 516 , it was asserted in explicit language by Mr ...
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... Congress , to interpose by writ of injunction , and arrest the threat- ened invasion of the property of the complainant . One other question only need be the subject of examination , and that is whether , under the internal revenue laws ...
... Congress , to interpose by writ of injunction , and arrest the threat- ened invasion of the property of the complainant . One other question only need be the subject of examination , and that is whether , under the internal revenue laws ...
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Page 31 - 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 31 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 230 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Page 161 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 285 - State, may remove such suit into the Circuit Court of the United States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said Circuit Court that from prejudice or local influence he will not be able to obtain justice in such State Court...
Page 77 - The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it, the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that one particular mode of effecting the object is excepted, take upon themselves the burden of establishing that exception.
Page 309 - ... nor shall any district or circuit court have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favour of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 40 - There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between His Britannic Majesty and the said States, and between the subjects of the one and the citizens of the other...
Page 5 - States extends to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; and that the whole of this judicial power must be vested " in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as congress shall from time to time ordain and establish.
Page 224 - That any order of the President, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal, pending, or to be commenced, for any search, seizure, arrest, or imprisonment, made, done, or committed, or acts omitted to be done, under and by virtue of such order, or under color of any law of Congress, and such defence may be made by special plea, or under the general issue.