Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fourth Circuit; Most of Them Since Chief Justice Waite Came Upon the Bench; and of Selected Cases in Admiralty and Bankruptcy, Decided in the District Courts of that Circuit. With an Appendix to the Second Volume, Containing the Rules in Admiralty and Bankruptcy;, of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Rules of the Circuit Court for that District, Etc., Etc, Volume 1W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1877 - Admiralty |
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... Congress , in the year 1877 , BY W. H. & O. H. MORRISON , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington , D. C. Ree . Nov. 12 , 1877 SHERMAN & CO . , PRINTERS , PHILADELPHIA . DEDICATION . These Volumes ARE RESPECTFULLY ...
... Congress , in the year 1877 , BY W. H. & O. H. MORRISON , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington , D. C. Ree . Nov. 12 , 1877 SHERMAN & CO . , PRINTERS , PHILADELPHIA . DEDICATION . These Volumes ARE RESPECTFULLY ...
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... Congress , a district court of the United States is invested with circuit court powers ( see Section 571 , Rev. Stat . United States ) , it is not thereby constituted a cireuit court , it possesses those powers only in the territory of ...
... Congress , a district court of the United States is invested with circuit court powers ( see Section 571 , Rev. Stat . United States ) , it is not thereby constituted a cireuit court , it possesses those powers only in the territory of ...
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... Congress of February 28th , 1839 , which had been sup- posed to have altered the rule , say , that " this act does not affect any case where persons having an interest are not joined , because their citizenship is such that their ...
... Congress of February 28th , 1839 , which had been sup- posed to have altered the rule , say , that " this act does not affect any case where persons having an interest are not joined , because their citizenship is such that their ...
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... Congress . By the provisions of the Constitution the Supreme Court of the United States is established , and its jurisdiction prescribed directly , and it is further provided that Congress shall have power to create or establish ...
... Congress . By the provisions of the Constitution the Supreme Court of the United States is established , and its jurisdiction prescribed directly , and it is further provided that Congress shall have power to create or establish ...
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... Congress undertook to prescribe the jurisdiction of the circuit courts , and we find by the seventeenth section of that act that such courts are vested with original cog- nizance , concurrent with the courts of the several States , of ...
... Congress undertook to prescribe the jurisdiction of the circuit courts , and we find by the seventeenth section of that act that such courts are vested with original cog- nizance , concurrent with the courts of the several States , of ...
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Page 258 - It is agreed that creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 550 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.
Page 427 - 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 252 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 545 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Page 284 - ... uniform in respect to persons and property, within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.
Page 506 - ... by subjecting them to the control of Congress, in the exercise of powers heretofore universally conceded to them of the most ordinary and fundamental character; when in fact it radically changes the whole theory of the relations of the State and Federal governments to each other and of both these governments to the people; the argument has a force that is irresistible, in the absence of language which expresses such a purpose too clearly to admit of doubt. We are convinced that no such results...
Page 534 - No pleading of a party, nor any discovery or evidence obtained from a party or witness by means of a judicial proceeding in this or any foreign country, shall be given in evidence, or in any manner used against him or his property or estate, in any court of the United States, in any criminal proceeding, or for the enforcement of any penalty or forfeiture...
Page 315 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant...
Page 486 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...