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... obtained , may be regarded properly enough as a substitute for actual and direct notice ; and it may be admitted that opportunity for removal , after such information , would discharge the carriers from responsibility as such , in the ...
... obtained , may be regarded properly enough as a substitute for actual and direct notice ; and it may be admitted that opportunity for removal , after such information , would discharge the carriers from responsibility as such , in the ...
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... obtained ; which concludes the ques- tion . But the legislature possesses no judicial author- ity under the ... obtain such legislative acts as may be desirable , he will find them fully exposed in the opinion of the supreme court ...
... obtained ; which concludes the ques- tion . But the legislature possesses no judicial author- ity under the ... obtain such legislative acts as may be desirable , he will find them fully exposed in the opinion of the supreme court ...
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... obtained here with the same vigor , and subject only to the same exceptions , since as before the Revolution . It is further said in the note in 1 Kent's Commen- taries , before referred to : " If a slave born in the United States be ...
... obtained here with the same vigor , and subject only to the same exceptions , since as before the Revolution . It is further said in the note in 1 Kent's Commen- taries , before referred to : " If a slave born in the United States be ...
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... obtained the loan by fraud . The statute should not be so construed as to require the plaintiff to do a useless act to obtain the order . A verified complaint is in this respect an affidavit . It is a statement of facts , verified by ...
... obtained the loan by fraud . The statute should not be so construed as to require the plaintiff to do a useless act to obtain the order . A verified complaint is in this respect an affidavit . It is a statement of facts , verified by ...
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... obtained , is to look at that which they have done , and in their answer jus- tify the right to do , rather than to look to the fact of their having discontinued the alleged injury , and their declaration of want of intention of ...
... obtained , is to look at that which they have done , and in their answer jus- tify the right to do , rather than to look to the fact of their having discontinued the alleged injury , and their declaration of want of intention of ...
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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.