The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 14West Publishing Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... charge to the jury instructed them that they should determine which of the creeks was called the ' San Pedro ' at the time the survey was made by a preponderance of evi- dence , but it is also true that in the sixth clause of the ...
... charge to the jury instructed them that they should determine which of the creeks was called the ' San Pedro ' at the time the survey was made by a preponderance of evi- dence , but it is also true that in the sixth clause of the ...
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clal charge given at the request of the coun- sel for the defendant in error . " It is possible , and even probable , that a boundary case might arise in which it would be proper for the court to instruct the jury that , if any of the ...
clal charge given at the request of the coun- sel for the defendant in error . " It is possible , and even probable , that a boundary case might arise in which it would be proper for the court to instruct the jury that , if any of the ...
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... charge , present the law inac- curately , for theretofore the judge had char- ged , substantially , that premeditation was necessary to the crime of murder ; and also , quoting from some authority , that " voluntary manslaughter is the ...
... charge , present the law inac- curately , for theretofore the judge had char- ged , substantially , that premeditation was necessary to the crime of murder ; and also , quoting from some authority , that " voluntary manslaughter is the ...
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... CHARGES . The expression " criminal charges , " as used in Rev. St. § 827 , giving per diem fees to United States commissioners for hearing and deciding on such charges , is restricted to cases In which formal written complaints have ...
... CHARGES . The expression " criminal charges , " as used in Rev. St. § 827 , giving per diem fees to United States commissioners for hearing and deciding on such charges , is restricted to cases In which formal written complaints have ...
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... charges . " A criminal charge , strict- ten complaint has been made against the ac- cused , and a prosecution initiated . It is true the popular understanding of the term is " accusation , " and it is freely used with refer- ence to all ...
... charges . " A criminal charge , strict- ten complaint has been made against the ac- cused , and a prosecution initiated . It is true the popular understanding of the term is " accusation , " and it is freely used with refer- ence to all ...
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Page 221 - That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 340 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or money or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 252 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised 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 constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 192 - No officer In any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 254 - That every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed ; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of justice.
Page 183 - You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such proceedings be had in said cause as, according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States, ought to be had, the said appeal notwithstanding.
Page 195 - ... and that no adverse claim exists ; and thereafter Opinion of the Court. no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 178 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 350 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Page 120 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.