Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Volume 1Callaghan, 1881 - District courts |
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... Common Pleas of Lucas county , where the same are now pending ; whereupon , and by virtue of the act of Congress of March 3 , 1851 , the liability of the defendant is alleged to be limited to the sum of $ 10,000 , the value of said ...
... Common Pleas of Lucas county , where the same are now pending ; whereupon , and by virtue of the act of Congress of March 3 , 1851 , the liability of the defendant is alleged to be limited to the sum of $ 10,000 , the value of said ...
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... common law liability of carriers upon water ; and if the act is ever to be declared operative upon the great lakes , it is to be done , by virtue of the constitutional provision King and Baker , Survivors , Etc. , v . 1859. ] 5 NORTHERN ...
... common law liability of carriers upon water ; and if the act is ever to be declared operative upon the great lakes , it is to be done , by virtue of the constitutional provision King and Baker , Survivors , Etc. , v . 1859. ] 5 NORTHERN ...
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... common law , which it may deem to be con- ducive to these ends , where the power over the particular subject or the manner of its exercise is not restrained by , or surrendered to , the Federal government . And that all those powers ...
... common law , which it may deem to be con- ducive to these ends , where the power over the particular subject or the manner of its exercise is not restrained by , or surrendered to , the Federal government . And that all those powers ...
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... common cases of running down vessels at sea and carriages upon land , where the injury arises from a want of skill or from negligence of the delinquent party or his employees . If in this case , the loss occurred by carelessness and ...
... common cases of running down vessels at sea and carriages upon land , where the injury arises from a want of skill or from negligence of the delinquent party or his employees . If in this case , the loss occurred by carelessness and ...
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... common and civil law have not been ameliorated and improved by such means . But we are to look to established principles and not to theories in consider- ing the case before us . The debt is founded upon a bond and mortgage for the ...
... common and civil law have not been ameliorated and improved by such means . But we are to look to established principles and not to theories in consider- ing the case before us . The debt is founded upon a bond and mortgage for the ...
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Page 274 - 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 383 - But the results must be a product of the combination, and not a mere aggregate of several results each the complete product of one of the combined elements. Combined results are not necessarily a novel result, nor are they an old result obtained in a new and improved manner. Merely bringing old devices into juxtaposition, and there allowing each to work out its own effect without the production of something novel, is not invention.
Page 121 - The State shall not be a party to or interested in any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property.
Page 452 - ... 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 648 - That a deed absolute on its face was intended as a mortgage, would, before the Code, have been an equitable defence, because it could not have been proved at law.
Page 447 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 447 - That whenever any party entitled to remove any suit mentioned in the next preceding section, except in such cases as are provided for in the last clause of said section, may desire to remove such suit from a state court to the circuit court of the United States, he may make and file a petition in such suit in such state court...
Page 20 - The general principle in relation to contracts made in one place, to be executed In another, Is well settled. They are to be governed by the law of the place of performance; and If the interest, allowed by the laws of the place of performance...
Page 626 - ... but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause...
Page 452 - ... unless such suit might have been prosecuted in such Court to recover the said contents if no assignment or transfer had been made...