Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 2West Publishing Company, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... congress did not apply . That court held , in accordance with its own previous decisions , that a writ of error was the beginning of a new suit , and as this was a question concerning the nature and effect of a writ of error in their ...
... congress did not apply . That court held , in accordance with its own previous decisions , that a writ of error was the beginning of a new suit , and as this was a question concerning the nature and effect of a writ of error in their ...
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... congress of exclusive legislation over the district . Accordingly , the judgments of the courts of the United States have invariably been recognized as upon the same footing , so far as concerns the obligation created by them , with ...
... congress of exclusive legislation over the district . Accordingly , the judgments of the courts of the United States have invariably been recognized as upon the same footing , so far as concerns the obligation created by them , with ...
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... congress , and elects to receive a greater pension under a subsequent general pension law , he cannot thereafter demand his pen- sion under the special pension act passed in his personal behalf . In Error to the Supreme Court of the ...
... congress , and elects to receive a greater pension under a subsequent general pension law , he cannot thereafter demand his pen- sion under the special pension act passed in his personal behalf . In Error to the Supreme Court of the ...
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... congress had passed an act , which was approved March 3 , 1879 , " granting an increase of pension to Ward B. Burnett , " which was as follows : " That the secretary of the interior be , and he is hereby , authorized and di- rected to ...
... congress had passed an act , which was approved March 3 , 1879 , " granting an increase of pension to Ward B. Burnett , " which was as follows : " That the secretary of the interior be , and he is hereby , authorized and di- rected to ...
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... congress , approved respectively June 8 , 1872 , June 18 , 1874 , and June 16 , 1880 , and had received an- other pension certificate , dated July 17 , 1882 , which recited that the relator was entitled to a pension at the rate of $ 30 ...
... congress , approved respectively June 8 , 1872 , June 18 , 1874 , and June 16 , 1880 , and had received an- other pension certificate , dated July 17 , 1882 , which recited that the relator was entitled to a pension at the rate of $ 30 ...
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Page 682 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 172 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 590 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land.
Page 657 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads.
Page 570 - ... to appear and show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted...
Page 534 - Prohibited (Sec. 5204). —No association, or any member thereof, shall, during the time it shall continue its banking operations, withdraw, or permit to be withdrawn, either in the form of dividends or otherwise, any portion of its capital.
Page 412 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 708 - ... per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July of each year, at the...
Page 386 - Before this time a petition for the removal of the cause to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nevada had been filed by Herman Shainwald and Ralph L.
Page 707 - If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of...