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Page 58
... officer instead of sending the officer to the article . It is a matter as to which the state has a reasonable discretion , and we are unable to see that such discretion has been exercised in any such manner as to carry the statutes ...
... officer instead of sending the officer to the article . It is a matter as to which the state has a reasonable discretion , and we are unable to see that such discretion has been exercised in any such manner as to carry the statutes ...
Page 59
United States. Supreme Court Robert Desty. matters being supervised by a public officer having authority to pass or not ... officers before the tobacco shall be exported , is a question of law , because the question is as to whether such ...
United States. Supreme Court Robert Desty. matters being supervised by a public officer having authority to pass or not ... officers before the tobacco shall be exported , is a question of law , because the question is as to whether such ...
Page 84
... officers or by the law itself . In the present case the statute required every savings bank to pay a tax of 5 per cent . on all undistributed earnings made or added during the year to their contingent funds . There was no occasion or ...
... officers or by the law itself . In the present case the statute required every savings bank to pay a tax of 5 per cent . on all undistributed earnings made or added during the year to their contingent funds . There was no occasion or ...
Page 85
... officers to make collections in currency . For that reason it was provided that in making out the tax - lists the amount necessary to discharge coin taxes in currency should be set down , rather than the amount of the coin that was ...
... officers to make collections in currency . For that reason it was provided that in making out the tax - lists the amount necessary to discharge coin taxes in currency should be set down , rather than the amount of the coin that was ...
Page 103
... officers of a state to do the acts which constitute a performance of its contract by the state , is a suit against ... officers to enforce any judgment that may be rendered , then such coercion may be employed for that purpose . But this ...
... officers of a state to do the acts which constitute a performance of its contract by the state , is a suit against ... officers to enforce any judgment that may be rendered , then such coercion may be employed for that purpose . But this ...
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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...