 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...general, as if it were confined to a particular mode of doing the forbidden thing. All must perceive that a tax on the sale of an article, imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself. It is true, the state may tax occupations generally, but this tax must be paid by those who employ... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 620 pages
...general, as if it were confined to a particulir mode of doing the forbidden thing. All must perceive, that a tax on the sale of an article, imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself. It is true, the State may tax occupations generally, but this tax must be paid by those who employ... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 822 pages
...general, as if it were confined to a particular mode of doing the forbidden thing. All must perceive that a tax on the sale of an article, imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself. It is true the State may tax occupations generally, but this tax must be paid by those who employ the... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 1050 pages
...imported, a tax upon it is plainly a tax upon imports, within the prohibition of the constitution. A tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale is a tax on the article itself. I shall have occasion again to allude to certain distinctions contained in this opinion, which will... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 892 pages
...without the payment of an additional duty, or impost, which the State cannot impose. The case of Brown v. The State of Maryland, 12 Wheat 419, is supposed to...importation gave a right to the importer to sell the package irr question free from any charge by the State, and consequently that the act of Maryland was unconstitutional... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 874 pages
...that the tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself." If a tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself, then assuredly a tax on the price of a passage, paid only for the purpose of securing the passage,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 684 pages
...imported, a tax upon it is plainly a tax upon imports, within the prohibition of the constitution. A tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale is a tax on the article itself. I shall have occasion again to allude to certain distinctions contained in this opinion, which will... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 684 pages
...imported, a tax upon it is plainly a tax upon imports, within the prohibition of the constitution. A tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale is a tax on the article itself. I shall have occasion again to allude to certain distinctions contained in this opinion, which will... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 296 pages
...prohibition which we are now considering, that no state can lay a duty on imports. 238. The Court regarded a tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale, or a tax on the thing imported, in the hands of the importer, as equivalent to a tax or duty upon imports.... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 322 pages
...prohibition which we are now considering, that no state can lay a duty on imports. 238. The Court regarded a tax on the sale of an article imported only for sale, or a tax on the thing imported, in the hands of the importer, as equivalent to a tax or duty upon imports.... | |
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All must perceive that a tax on the sale of an article, imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself. 
