United States Reports, Supreme Court: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 6; Volume 96Little, Brown, 1878 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... give her what is not here in issue a right of way only over the public domain . Con- gress did not possess , and could not grant , more , The United States acquires no proprietary interest in any railroad by de- claring it a post - road ...
... give her what is not here in issue a right of way only over the public domain . Con- gress did not possess , and could not grant , more , The United States acquires no proprietary interest in any railroad by de- claring it a post - road ...
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... give aid in any other way . Its language is , that any telegraph company organized under the laws of a State " shall have the right to construct , maintain , and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public do ...
... give aid in any other way . Its language is , that any telegraph company organized under the laws of a State " shall have the right to construct , maintain , and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public do ...
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... give aid to the telegraph companies of the country , those existing or thereafter to be created , not merely by allowing them to construct their lines over and along post - roads upon the public lands , but also over and along such ...
... give aid to the telegraph companies of the country , those existing or thereafter to be created , not merely by allowing them to construct their lines over and along post - roads upon the public lands , but also over and along such ...
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... give such permission to the assignor of the defendant , or to any other company , to construct a telegraph line in the county of Escambia . The act of the State of Feb. 3 , 1874 , in the face of this grant , can only be held to ...
... give such permission to the assignor of the defendant , or to any other company , to construct a telegraph line in the county of Escambia . The act of the State of Feb. 3 , 1874 , in the face of this grant , can only be held to ...
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... give pub- licity to their transactions , to submit their affairs to proper examination , to be subject to forfeiture of their corporate rights in case of mismanagement , and that their officers should be held to a strict accountability ...
... give pub- licity to their transactions , to submit their affairs to proper examination , to be subject to forfeiture of their corporate rights in case of mismanagement , and that their officers should be held to a strict accountability ...
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Page 441 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Page 182 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 700 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 14 - An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes.
Page 166 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 20 - Having no absolute right of recognition in other states, but depending for such recognition and the enforcement of its contracts upon their assent, it follows as a matter of course that such assent may be granted upon such terms and conditions as those states may think proper to impose.
Page 317 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 568 - 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 759 - Any agreement, declaration, or course of action on the part of an insurance company, which leads a party insured honestly to believe that by conforming thereto, a forfeiture of his policy will not be incurred, followed by due conformity on his part, will and ought to estop the company from insisting upon the forfeiture, though it might be claimed under the express letter of the contract.
Page 107 - ... due process of law,' provided by the state law when a citizen is deprived of his property, and that, in judging what is 'due process of law,' respect must be had to the cause and object of the taking, whether under the taxing power, the power of eminent domain, or the power of assessment for local improvements, or none of these ; and if found to be suitable or admissible in the special case, it will be adjudged to be