Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 5; Volume 46Published for John Conrad and Company, 1847 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 208
... Michigan , on a certificate of division in opinion . The circumstances of the case are thus stated by the Chief Jus- tice , as introductory to the opinion of the court . The United States v . Briggs . This case comes 208 SUPREME COURT .
... Michigan , on a certificate of division in opinion . The circumstances of the case are thus stated by the Chief Jus- tice , as introductory to the opinion of the court . The United States v . Briggs . This case comes 208 SUPREME COURT .
Page 209
... Michigan . The defendant was indicted under the act of Congress of March 2 , 1831 , ch . 66 ( 4 Statutes at Large , 472 ) , for unlawfully cutting timber upon certain lands of the United States , called the Wyan- dotte reserve . He ...
... Michigan . The defendant was indicted under the act of Congress of March 2 , 1831 , ch . 66 ( 4 Statutes at Large , 472 ) , for unlawfully cutting timber upon certain lands of the United States , called the Wyan- dotte reserve . He ...
Page 210
... Michigan , and on the point and question on which the judges of the said Circuit Court were opposed in opinion , and which was certi- fied to this court for its opinion , agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided ...
... Michigan , and on the point and question on which the judges of the said Circuit Court were opposed in opinion , and which was certi- fied to this court for its opinion , agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided ...
Page 343
... Michigan . It was an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne , State of Michigau ( State court ) , by the Detroit Young Men's Society against the plaintiffs in error , to recover lot No. 56 , in section one , in ...
... Michigan . It was an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne , State of Michigau ( State court ) , by the Detroit Young Men's Society against the plaintiffs in error , to recover lot No. 56 , in section one , in ...
Page 344
... Michigan , passed on the 26th of March , 1836 , entitled " An act to incorporate the members of the Detroit Young Men's Society . " To the admission of this act in evidence the defendants objected , but the court overruled the objection ...
... Michigan , passed on the 26th of March , 1836 , entitled " An act to incorporate the members of the Detroit Young Men's Society . " To the admission of this act in evidence the defendants objected , but the court overruled the objection ...
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Page 481 - States shall be divided or appropriated : of granting letters of marque and reprisal, in times of peace : appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures ; provided, that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 187 - That all the beforementioned courts of the United 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 141 - ... any fact which clearly proves it to be against conscience to execute a judgment, and of which the injured party could not have availed himself in a court of law, or of which he might have availed himself at law, but was prevented by fraud or accident, unmixed with any fault or negligence in himself or his agents, will justify an application to a court of chancery.
Page 154 - the Constitution, and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 301 - And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar.
Page 188 - That this shall be done only when the fact of the commission of the crime shall be so established, as that the laws of the country, in which the fugitive or the person so accused shall be found, would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had been there committed.
Page 367 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United 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...
Page 187 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment...
Page 587 - All must perceive that a tax on the sale of an article, imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself.
Page 61 - ... cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor 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.