Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: With Notes, and a Digest, Volume 14Little, Brown, 1864 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... entitled to receive payment of any debt due by the government , he would be compel- lable to take out letters of administration in this District If * for the due administration of such assets . Such a doctrine [ 7 ] has never yet been ...
... entitled to receive payment of any debt due by the government , he would be compel- lable to take out letters of administration in this District If * for the due administration of such assets . Such a doctrine [ 7 ] has never yet been ...
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... entitled to dower . Burton on Real Property , 53 ; Co. Litt . 31 . * But it is insisted that the rule which denies dower in an estate of joint - tenancy , applies only in behalf of the survivor ; and that , * if in this case the deed ...
... entitled to dower . Burton on Real Property , 53 ; Co. Litt . 31 . * But it is insisted that the rule which denies dower in an estate of joint - tenancy , applies only in behalf of the survivor ; and that , * if in this case the deed ...
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... entitled to dower . " And they say : " Where a man has the seisin of an estate beneficially for his own use , the widow shall be endowed . " What may be a beneficial seisin in the husband , so as to entitle Houseman v . The Schooner ...
... entitled to dower . " And they say : " Where a man has the seisin of an estate beneficially for his own use , the widow shall be endowed . " What may be a beneficial seisin in the husband , so as to entitle Houseman v . The Schooner ...
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... entitled to recover the value of all the cotton delivered for salvage , at Indian Key . This brings us to the second inquiry , was the matter in contro- versy within the jurisdiction of the court of admiralty ? Now , the matter in ...
... entitled to recover the value of all the cotton delivered for salvage , at Indian Key . This brings us to the second inquiry , was the matter in contro- versy within the jurisdiction of the court of admiralty ? Now , the matter in ...
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... entitled to , was the con- demnation of these 72 bales . The claimant appealed from this The case , therefore , carried decree ; the libellant did not appeal . up , was the controversy about the 72 bales ; the libellant resting ...
... entitled to , was the con- demnation of these 72 bales . The claimant appealed from this The case , therefore , carried decree ; the libellant did not appeal . up , was the controversy about the 72 bales ; the libellant resting ...
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Page 316 - ... 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 471 - ... could not be foreseen what new changes and modifications of power might be indispensable to effectuate the general objects of the charter ; and restrictions and specifications, which at the present might seem salutary, might, in the end, prove the overthrow of the system itself. Hence its powers are expressed in general terms, leaving to the legislature, from time to time, to adopt its own means to effectuate legitimate objects, and to mould and model the exercise of its powers, as its own wisdom...
Page 170 - 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 62 - But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another, in any civil action before a Circuit or District Court. And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Page 228 - All the grants of land made before the 24th of January, 1818, by His Catholic Majesty, or by his lawful authorities, in the said territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if the territories had remained under the dominion of His Catholic Majesty.
Page 302 - Not more than two complete townships to be given perpetually for the purposes of a University, to be laid off by the purchaser or purchasers, as near the center as may be, so that the same shall be of good land, to be applied to the intended object by the legislature of the State.
Page 145 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Page 32 - His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, in full property and sovereignty, all the territories which belong to him situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by the name of East and West Florida.
Page 425 - ... or arrested, doth, under the laws of the state or territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labour to the person claiming him or her. it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labour to the state or territory from which he or she fled.
Page 62 - That the circuit courts 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...