United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 37Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references. |
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Page 58
... reason that the right of navigation is presumed to be common to both in the absence of a special convention between the neighboring states , or long use of a different line equivalent to such a convention . Phillimore , in his ...
... reason that the right of navigation is presumed to be common to both in the absence of a special convention between the neighboring states , or long use of a different line equivalent to such a convention . Phillimore , in his ...
Page 60
... reason of a collision aud to decree the payment thereof against that ves- sel or her owner and for further relief ; which order directed the vessel to be released and the libel dismissed . The petition was also that the mandamus direct ...
... reason of a collision aud to decree the payment thereof against that ves- sel or her owner and for further relief ; which order directed the vessel to be released and the libel dismissed . The petition was also that the mandamus direct ...
Page 70
... reason * of a fraudulent arrangement between the bank and the makers of the said notes , by which the bank became a preferred creditor of the same , and by reason of the decree aforesaid of the said circuit court of the United States ...
... reason * of a fraudulent arrangement between the bank and the makers of the said notes , by which the bank became a preferred creditor of the same , and by reason of the decree aforesaid of the said circuit court of the United States ...
Page 74
... reason for such refusal that previous payments had been made upon these sections in the names of Jacobs and Fisher . Rhomberg did not abandon these applica tions , but continued to press them and made repeated tenders to the state ...
... reason for such refusal that previous payments had been made upon these sections in the names of Jacobs and Fisher . Rhomberg did not abandon these applica tions , but continued to press them and made repeated tenders to the state ...
Page 114
... reason- able time , as no time for payment was defin- itely fixed , and presumably as soon as the in- debtedness to the vendee could be ascertained and applied . The decree is for the balance of the purchase money alone , although under ...
... reason- able time , as no time for payment was defin- itely fixed , and presumably as soon as the in- debtedness to the vendee could be ascertained and applied . The decree is for the balance of the purchase money alone , although under ...
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Page 420 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose...
Page 166 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 138 - ... the corporate authorities of cities, towns, and villages with power to make local improvements by special assessment, or by special taxation of contiguous property, or otherwise. For all other corporate purposes all municipal corporations may be vested with authority to assess and collect taxes, but such taxes shall be uniform, in respect to persons and property, within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.
Page 389 - States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States...
Page 467 - It may be that it is the obnoxious thing in its mildest and least repulsive form; but illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure.
Page 395 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 442 - States, the cause shall then proceed in the same manner as if it had been originally commenced in the said circuit court...
Page 448 - No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery, nor shall any patent be declared invalid by reason of its having been first patented or caused to be patented in a foreign country...
Page 318 - 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 469 - If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the case, any act in execution of the power to regulate commerce, the object of which was to control State legislation over those small navigable creeks into which the tide flows...