Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second Circuit: Comprising the Districts of New-York, Connecticut, and VermontR. Donaldson, 1827 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 168
Has it ever before occurred to any one of this numerous class of citizens ,
however scrupulous in other respects of violating any law of the land , that any
criminality or responsibility attached by drawing a bill on his enemy for a debt due
to him ...
Has it ever before occurred to any one of this numerous class of citizens ,
however scrupulous in other respects of violating any law of the land , that any
criminality or responsibility attached by drawing a bill on his enemy for a debt due
to him ...
Page 458
Where proclamation had been made by the governor of the colony of New York ,
under orders from the king , that no purchases of land should be made of the
Indians , it was held , that a purchaser could not acquire even the Indian title of ...
Where proclamation had been made by the governor of the colony of New York ,
under orders from the king , that no purchases of land should be made of the
Indians , it was held , that a purchaser could not acquire even the Indian title of ...
Page 475
Governor , President of the council , . or com . inander - in - chief of the province
of New York , upon any pretence whatever , and upon pain of forfeiting their office
, not to pass any grant to any person whatever , of any land within , or adjacen ...
Governor , President of the council , . or com . inander - in - chief of the province
of New York , upon any pretence whatever , and upon pain of forfeiting their office
, not to pass any grant to any person whatever , of any land within , or adjacen ...
Page 494
Where the quantity of a tract of land is given as well as the metes and bounds ,
the latter will control the location , although they contain less than the given
quantity , if they can be ascertained with certainty . And this rule applies in all
cases ...
Where the quantity of a tract of land is given as well as the metes and bounds ,
the latter will control the location , although they contain less than the given
quantity , if they can be ascertained with certainty . And this rule applies in all
cases ...
Page 495
Sprague . deed recites an agreement made on the 5th of August , 1795 , between
the parties , by which Morris covenanted to convey a tract of land corresponding
in description with that contained in the deed . Morris , by a deed bearing date ...
Sprague . deed recites an agreement made on the 5th of August , 1795 , between
the parties , by which Morris covenanted to convey a tract of land corresponding
in description with that contained in the deed . Morris , by a deed bearing date ...
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Page 42 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas...
Page 428 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 58 - Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause ; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court. But if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void; and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal, in opposition to them.
Page 447 - The several courts vested with jurisdiction of cases arising under the patent laws shall have power to grant injunctions according to the course and principles of courts of equity...
Page 398 - 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 700 - ... shall also have exclusive original cognizance of all seizures on .land, or other waters than as aforesaid, made, and of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred, under the laws of the United States.
Page 564 - We receive the construction given by the courts of the nation as the true sense of the law, and feel ourselves no more at liberty to depart from that construction than to depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the constitution and laws of the United States is received by all as the true construction ; and on the same principle, the construction given by the courts of the several States to the legislative acts of those States, is received as...
Page 211 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 649 - States declares that congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory and other property belonging to the United States.
Page 13 - Land of New England beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St Croix next adjoining to New...
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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second Circuit: Comprising the Districts of New-York, Connecticut, and Vermont Volume 1 of Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Second Circuit, Comprising the Districts of New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) |
| Authors | Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) |
| Editors | Elijah Paine, Thomas Whitney Waterman |
| Publisher | R. Donaldson, 1827 |
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