United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 96U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... SECT . 2. And be it further enacted , that telegraphic communi- cations between the several departments of the government of the United States and their officers and agents shall , in their transmis- sion over the lines of any of said ...
... SECT . 2. And be it further enacted , that telegraphic communi- cations between the several departments of the government of the United States and their officers and agents shall , in their transmis- sion over the lines of any of said ...
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... sect . 5263 et seq . All railroads in the United States are by law post - roads . Rev. Stat . , sect . 3964 ; 17 Stat . 308 , sect . 201 . On the 11th of December , 1866 , the legislature of Florida passed an act incorporating the ...
... sect . 5263 et seq . All railroads in the United States are by law post - roads . Rev. Stat . , sect . 3964 ; 17 Stat . 308 , sect . 201 . On the 11th of December , 1866 , the legislature of Florida passed an act incorporating the ...
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... sect . 8 , par . 3 ) ; and " to establish post - offices and post - roads " ( id . , par . 7 ) . The Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pur- suance thereof are the supreme law of the land . Art . 6 , par . 2 . A law ...
... sect . 8 , par . 3 ) ; and " to establish post - offices and post - roads " ( id . , par . 7 ) . The Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pur- suance thereof are the supreme law of the land . Art . 6 , par . 2 . A law ...
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... sect . 1069 ) is not applicable to a suit under sects . 1059-1062 , because such a suit is brought to establish , not a claim in the just sense of that word , but a pecul- iar defence to a cause of action of the United States against ...
... sect . 1069 ) is not applicable to a suit under sects . 1059-1062 , because such a suit is brought to establish , not a claim in the just sense of that word , but a pecul- iar defence to a cause of action of the United States against ...
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... be attributed to this that Mr. Clark was not called to prove the contents of the lost package . Sect . 858 of the Revised Statutes , originally enacted July 2 , 1864 , declares that " Oct. 1877. ] 41 UNITED STATES v . CLARK .
... be attributed to this that Mr. Clark was not called to prove the contents of the lost package . Sect . 858 of the Revised Statutes , originally enacted July 2 , 1864 , declares that " Oct. 1877. ] 41 UNITED STATES v . CLARK .
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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...