Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 8; Volume 75W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1870 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... matter of fact rather than matter of law , and , as matter of fact , these notes , payable at a future and contin- gent day , which has not arrived and can never arrive , were forced into circulation as dollars , if not directly by the ...
... matter of fact rather than matter of law , and , as matter of fact , these notes , payable at a future and contin- gent day , which has not arrived and can never arrive , were forced into circulation as dollars , if not directly by the ...
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... matter of grave doubt if the act confers juris- diction in cases of salvage , jettison , or general average . These are not matters of contract , according to the most eminent commentators on the subject , * and they certainly are not ...
... matter of grave doubt if the act confers juris- diction in cases of salvage , jettison , or general average . These are not matters of contract , according to the most eminent commentators on the subject , * and they certainly are not ...
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... matter of course , he would be bound by it , so far as such recital could bind him ; but I hardly think that the fact it was simply on record would be constructive notice to him , so as to prevent him from being a bonâ fide purchaser ...
... matter of course , he would be bound by it , so far as such recital could bind him ; but I hardly think that the fact it was simply on record would be constructive notice to him , so as to prevent him from being a bonâ fide purchaser ...
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... matter of course , the plaintiff's title stands good , other- wise not . " We see no error in these instructions . After having thus correctly submitted the case to the con- sideration of the jury , the court were not bound to answer a ...
... matter of course , the plaintiff's title stands good , other- wise not . " We see no error in these instructions . After having thus correctly submitted the case to the con- sideration of the jury , the court were not bound to answer a ...
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... matter involved the construc- tion of a Tennessee statute by a Tennessee court , not the validity of any statute ; and the matter is not revisable here . * But looking to the record in a less favorable light , we must assume that the ...
... matter involved the construc- tion of a Tennessee statute by a Tennessee court , not the validity of any statute ; and the matter is not revisable here . * But looking to the record in a less favorable light , we must assume that the ...
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Page 389 - 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 48 - States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity...
Page 170 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 172 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 133 - ... that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 86 - States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 630 - Constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future time execute its powers would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable...
Page 14 - It follows that the decree of the Circuit Court must be REVERSED, and the cause remanded, for further hearing and decree, in conformity with this opinion.
Page 630 - If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable.
Page 183 - Issuing a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce. The policies are simple contracts of idemnity against loss by fire, entered into between the corporations and the assured, for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts are not articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the word.