United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 96U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... received by the United States without consideration and in fraud of the rights of the State Bank is unwarranted , and in this proceeding , which is analogous to a petition of right , is inadmissible . The govern- ment is not , upon an ...
... received by the United States without consideration and in fraud of the rights of the State Bank is unwarranted , and in this proceeding , which is analogous to a petition of right , is inadmissible . The govern- ment is not , upon an ...
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... received them from Smith in the pres- ence of Carter , and made out the receipt to Mellen , Ward , & Co. , or order . Smith inquired why the receipt was to them . Carter thereupon indorsed it by the firm name to Smith as cashier , and ...
... received them from Smith in the pres- ence of Carter , and made out the receipt to Mellen , Ward , & Co. , or order . Smith inquired why the receipt was to them . Carter thereupon indorsed it by the firm name to Smith as cashier , and ...
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... received the certificates that they did not be- long to Mellen , Ward , & Co. , and that they did belong to the State Bank , represented by Smith as its agent . Hartwell was privy to the entire fraud from the beginning to the end , and ...
... received the certificates that they did not be- long to Mellen , Ward , & Co. , and that they did belong to the State Bank , represented by Smith as its agent . Hartwell was privy to the entire fraud from the beginning to the end , and ...
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... received against the government , without utterly dis- regarding the plainly expressed will of that department , which has the power to declare the conditions upon which the United States may be sued by the citizen ? With entire respect ...
... received against the government , without utterly dis- regarding the plainly expressed will of that department , which has the power to declare the conditions upon which the United States may be sued by the citizen ? With entire respect ...
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... received the coupons before maturity , but that he had given value for them ; and , not having done so , the judgment was affirmed . Smith v . Sac County , 11 Wall . 139 . When the present case was first tried , the court below , hold ...
... received the coupons before maturity , but that he had given value for them ; and , not having done so , the judgment was affirmed . Smith v . Sac County , 11 Wall . 139 . When the present case was first tried , the court below , hold ...
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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...