United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ...Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1899 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 92
... land district , containing thirty - eight hundred and forty ( 3840 ) acres , according to the official plat of the survey of said lands in the state land office . ' " The number of the patent is 4058 , and it states that the purchase ...
... land district , containing thirty - eight hundred and forty ( 3840 ) acres , according to the official plat of the survey of said lands in the state land office . ' " The number of the patent is 4058 , and it states that the purchase ...
Page 93
... lands in township No. 22 south , range No. 31 east , on the southeastern west of the river land district , according to the official survey of said lands in the state land office , as they were at the time they were granted by the ...
... lands in township No. 22 south , range No. 31 east , on the southeastern west of the river land district , according to the official survey of said lands in the state land office , as they were at the time they were granted by the ...
Page 94
... land in township twenty- two south , of range thirty - one east , in the southeastern land district west of the Mississippi River ; for if it does , in fact , the patents which were subsequently issued to the defendant H. J. Leovy do ...
... land in township twenty- two south , of range thirty - one east , in the southeastern land district west of the Mississippi River ; for if it does , in fact , the patents which were subsequently issued to the defendant H. J. Leovy do ...
Page 95
... lands in the state land office ' was intended to verify and confirm the statement as to the character and extent of the area of land which was actually conveyed to the patentee . ( " We are of the opinion that inasmuch as the ...
... lands in the state land office ' was intended to verify and confirm the statement as to the character and extent of the area of land which was actually conveyed to the patentee . ( " We are of the opinion that inasmuch as the ...
Page 115
... land , is in clear and manifest opposition to the letter and spirit of the foregoing constitutional provisions . The section of the code under consideration ( § 1715 ) prescribes a regulation of a peculiar and discriminative character ...
... land , is in clear and manifest opposition to the letter and spirit of the foregoing constitutional provisions . The section of the code under consideration ( § 1715 ) prescribes a regulation of a peculiar and discriminative character ...
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Page 481 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States, shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 101 - But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people...
Page 399 - ... shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 364 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 700 - Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebat), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct while it passes along. 'Aqua...
Page 505 - 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 483 - Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory...
Page 760 - Any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any state, shall have the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 755 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 592 - States; or (5) admitted in writing his inability to pay his debts and his willingness to be adjudged a bankrupt on that ground.