United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 42U.S. Government Printing Office, 1843 - Courts |
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... application of the Bar , will adjourn until to - morrow . January 13th , 1843 . On the opening of the Court this morning , Mr. Legaré , the Attorney General of the United States , made the following re- marks . " May it please your ...
... application of the Bar , will adjourn until to - morrow . January 13th , 1843 . On the opening of the Court this morning , Mr. Legaré , the Attorney General of the United States , made the following re- marks . " May it please your ...
Page xxvii
... apply to all judgments rendered by the Court for the District of Columbia at any time prior to a ses- sion of this Court . In cases not put to issue at the August term , it shall be the duty of the plaintiff in error , if errors shall ...
... apply to all judgments rendered by the Court for the District of Columbia at any time prior to a ses- sion of this Court . In cases not put to issue at the August term , it shall be the duty of the plaintiff in error , if errors shall ...
Page xxix
... applying for the commission , and notice to the opposite . party or his agent or attorney , accompanied with a copy of the interrogatories so filed , to file cross interrogatories within twenty days from the service of such notice ...
... applying for the commission , and notice to the opposite . party or his agent or attorney , accompanied with a copy of the interrogatories so filed , to file cross interrogatories within twenty days from the service of such notice ...
Page xxxiv
... application to the Clerk of the Court , to receive an order to take the same ( not exceeding at any one time three ) from the Library , he being thereby responsible for the due return of the same within a reasonable time , or when ...
... application to the Clerk of the Court , to receive an order to take the same ( not exceeding at any one time three ) from the Library , he being thereby responsible for the due return of the same within a reasonable time , or when ...
Page xxxvii
... apply to cases where the United States are a party ; but in such cases no costs shall be allowed in this Court for or against the United States . In all cases of the dismissal of any suit in this Court , it shall be the duty of the ...
... apply to cases where the United States are a party ; but in such cases no costs shall be allowed in this Court for or against the United States . In all cases of the dismissal of any suit in this Court , it shall be the duty of the ...
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Page 93 - 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 232 - 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...
Page xxviii - Court among the Circuits, agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided, and that such allotment be entered of record, viz. : For the First Circuit, HORACE GRAY, Associate Justice.
Page lv - Rule provides, that in all cases where it shall appear to the Court, that persons who might otherwise be deemed necessary or proper parties to the suit, cannot be made parties by reason of their being out of the jurisdiction of the Court, or incapable otherwise of being made parties, or because their joinder would oust the jurisdiction of the Court as to the parties before the Court, the Court may, in their discretion, proceed in the cause without making such persons parties ; and. in such cases,...
Page 166 - Pet. 416 ; and that nothing can call a court of chancery into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence ; and where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing; and, therefore, from the beginning of equity jurisdiction, there was always a limitation of suit in that court.
Page lvi - ... in the same manner and to the same extent as the executors or administrators in suits concerning personal estate represent the persons beneficially interested in such personal estate, and in such cases it shall not be necessary to make the persons beneficially interested under the...
Page xxv - Process of subpoena, issuing out of this court, in any suit in equity, shall be served on the defendant sixty days before the return day of the said process; and if the defendant, on such service of the subpoena, shall not appear at the return day, the complainant shall be at liberty to proceed ex parte.
Page xlviii - The prayer for process of subpoena in the bill shall contain the names of all the defendants named in the introductory part of the bill, and if any of them are known to be infants under age, or otherwise under guardianship, shall state the fact, so that the court may take order thereon as justice may require, upon the return of the proces.
Page 191 - ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence.
Page 200 - That every person or corporation who has, or shall have, purchased or constructed any newly invented machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, prior to the application by the inventor or discoverer for a patent, shall be held to possess the right to use, and vend to others to be used, the specific machine, manufacture, or composition of matter so made or purchased, without liability therefor to the inventor, or any other person interested in such invention...