Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. [1870-1883], Volume 1Callaghan, 1875 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... payment of debts ; nor pass any bill of attainder , ex post facto law , or law impairing the obligation of contracts ; or lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports , except as provided in the consti- tution ; and that the citizens ...
... payment of debts ; nor pass any bill of attainder , ex post facto law , or law impairing the obligation of contracts ; or lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports , except as provided in the consti- tution ; and that the citizens ...
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... payment of any money , other than the costs ; but only for the perpetuity of the injunctions of the defendants and the dissolution of the injunctions of the plaintiffs . But the defendants in error insist that they will , in the mean ...
... payment of any money , other than the costs ; but only for the perpetuity of the injunctions of the defendants and the dissolution of the injunctions of the plaintiffs . But the defendants in error insist that they will , in the mean ...
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... pay , than if he had stolen it . The charges which the owner , when following up his property , can be required to pay , are such and such only , as he has agreed to pay . I am unable to find any competent proof in this record to ...
... pay , than if he had stolen it . The charges which the owner , when following up his property , can be required to pay , are such and such only , as he has agreed to pay . I am unable to find any competent proof in this record to ...
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... payment to his counsel out of the assets of the estate . The solicitor is not the personal counsel of the assignee ... pay , and did pay their own money on their bid . They did not agree to let Stone have the property at what they bid ...
... payment to his counsel out of the assets of the estate . The solicitor is not the personal counsel of the assignee ... pay , and did pay their own money on their bid . They did not agree to let Stone have the property at what they bid ...
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... payment of a license tax of one thousand dollars for the year 1871 , the in- surance companies should be for that year excepted from all other license tax , state , municipal and parochial , and the com- plainant having paid one ...
... payment of a license tax of one thousand dollars for the year 1871 , the in- surance companies should be for that year excepted from all other license tax , state , municipal and parochial , and the com- plainant having paid one ...
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Page 515 - States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for...
Page 305 - Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude...
Page 135 - ... or more than two years prior to his application, and not in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years...
Page 704 - That in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court.
Page 234 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have 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.
Page 410 - ... made with a view to prevent his property from coming to his assignee in bankruptcy, or to prevent the same from being distributed under this act...
Page 330 - ... 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 457 - That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons, on being thereof convicted, shall suffer death.
Page 509 - ... questions of a more general nature, not at all dependent upon local statutes or local usages of a fixed and permanent operation, as for example, to the construction of ordinary contracts or other written instruments, and especially to questions of general commercial law, where the state tribunals are called upon to perform the like functions as ourselves; that is, to ascertain upon general reasoning and legal analogies, what is the true exposition of the contract or instrument, or what is the...
Page 461 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment