Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 11; Volume 52Published for John Conrad and Company, 1851 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... present case , and was reversed in 8 Howard , 134 ; there was no fraud imputed to the defendants , and the plaintiff , says Judge Story , ( pp . 631 , 632 , ) “ is not now at liberty to shift his own loss upon the defendants , or to ...
... present case , and was reversed in 8 Howard , 134 ; there was no fraud imputed to the defendants , and the plaintiff , says Judge Story , ( pp . 631 , 632 , ) “ is not now at liberty to shift his own loss upon the defendants , or to ...
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... present complainants , if she had not before her death received enough to cover this , as well as former interests or dividends . It is next said in support of the alleged fraud , that Mrs. Phillips was an aged female , little ...
... present complainants , if she had not before her death received enough to cover this , as well as former interests or dividends . It is next said in support of the alleged fraud , that Mrs. Phillips was an aged female , little ...
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... present bill to avoid it . Let the judgment below be reversed , and the case sent back to have the bill dismissed , unless the present parties agree to let others in interest come in , and to reconstruct and alter the character of the ...
... present bill to avoid it . Let the judgment below be reversed , and the case sent back to have the bill dismissed , unless the present parties agree to let others in interest come in , and to reconstruct and alter the character of the ...
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... accepted another bond in satisfaction of the old bond , and for the damages upon the breach of the old bond ; for that is no satisfaction , actual and present , as it The United States v . Girault et al . ought 24 SUPREME COURT .
... accepted another bond in satisfaction of the old bond , and for the damages upon the breach of the old bond ; for that is no satisfaction , actual and present , as it The United States v . Girault et al . ought 24 SUPREME COURT .
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... present that defence . The principle , however , upon which these pleas are founded , is as indefensible as the rule of pleading adopted for the pur- pose of setting it up . The condition of the bond is , that Girault shall faithfully ...
... present that defence . The principle , however , upon which these pleas are founded , is as indefensible as the rule of pleading adopted for the pur- pose of setting it up . The condition of the bond is , that Girault shall faithfully ...
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Page 167 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 173 - And the said records and judicial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 537 - 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...
Page 247 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 140 - This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Rhode Island, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof it is now here ordered, adjudged, and decreed by this court, that the decree of the said circuit court...
Page 322 - ... only in the case where its utterance would convict the party of a previous falsehood; — would be the denial of a previous affirmation upon the faith of which persons had dealt and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a doctrine, therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in order to prevent fraud and falsehood, and imposes silence on a party only when, in conscience and honesty, he should not be allowed to speak.
Page 566 - Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and...
Page 300 - ... in witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
Page 472 - On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this court, that the judgment of the said circuit court in this cause be and the same is hereby reversed, with costs, and that this cause be and the same is hereby remanded to the said circuit court, with directions to award a venire facias de novo, and to proceed therewith, in conformity to the opinion of this court.
Page 299 - Post (in his Actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to him thereof made by the said George Welsh for one whole year by Indenture bearing date the day next Before the day of the date of...