United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 96U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... over the postal service . 4. Nor is it limited in its operation to such military and post roads as are upon the public domain . VOL . VI . 1 5. The statute of Florida approved Dec. 11 , 1866 REPORTS OF THE DECISIONS ...
... over the postal service . 4. Nor is it limited in its operation to such military and post roads as are upon the public domain . VOL . VI . 1 5. The statute of Florida approved Dec. 11 , 1866 REPORTS OF THE DECISIONS ...
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... limited period to con- struct and operate a telegraph line within its borders . Its Constitution , in existence at the time , empowered the legislature to grant exclusive privileges and franchises to private corpora- tions for a period ...
... limited period to con- struct and operate a telegraph line within its borders . Its Constitution , in existence at the time , empowered the legislature to grant exclusive privileges and franchises to private corpora- tions for a period ...
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... limited periods exclusive privileges in connection with them . Such grants , so far from being deemed encroachments upon any rights or powers of the United States , are held to constitute contracts , and to be within the protecting ...
... limited periods exclusive privileges in connection with them . Such grants , so far from being deemed encroachments upon any rights or powers of the United States , are held to constitute contracts , and to be within the protecting ...
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... limited period . It is true the United States , equally with their citi- zens , may be obliged in such cases to use the road or line ; but it has not heretofore been supposed that this fact impaired the right of the State to make the ...
... limited period . It is true the United States , equally with their citi- zens , may be obliged in such cases to use the road or line ; but it has not heretofore been supposed that this fact impaired the right of the State to make the ...
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... limited , that they should be required to 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 ...
... limited , that they should be required to 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 ...
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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 698 - 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 133 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
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 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 757 - 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 446 - It is sufficient for the present to say, generally, that when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become subject to the taxing power of the state...