Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States: 1-351 U.S; 1790- October term, 1955, Book 24Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... company or com- subscription , by issuing to each company the bonds of the county , whether such orders and elections , or either of them , had been in com- pliance with the statutes in such cases made and provided or not , or whether ...
... company or com- subscription , by issuing to each company the bonds of the county , whether such orders and elections , or either of them , had been in com- pliance with the statutes in such cases made and provided or not , or whether ...
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... Companies . 39 They bear date of July 1 , 1865 , and are paya- ble on the first day of July , 1875 . This Act authorized the counties to make subscription to the capital stock of a railroad company , and to issue bonds in payment there ...
... Companies . 39 They bear date of July 1 , 1865 , and are paya- ble on the first day of July , 1875 . This Act authorized the counties to make subscription to the capital stock of a railroad company , and to issue bonds in payment there ...
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... Company , whereas it is alleged that no such company was in existence on the 21st day of January , 1865 , when the election was heid , or on the 1st day of July , when the bonds were issued . This company was organized in 1860 , under ...
... Company , whereas it is alleged that no such company was in existence on the 21st day of January , 1865 , when the election was heid , or on the 1st day of July , when the bonds were issued . This company was organized in 1860 , under ...
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... Company had built warehouses in which wines were taken in store at such rates of charge as the company and the owners might agree upon . Afterwards the company obtained authority , under the general Warehousing Act , to receive wines ...
... Company had built warehouses in which wines were taken in store at such rates of charge as the company and the owners might agree upon . Afterwards the company obtained authority , under the general Warehousing Act , to receive wines ...
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... Company to call upon the Legislature to fix permanently this limit , and make it a part of the charter ; and , road and establishing the contemplated busi- ness . If that had been done , the charter might have presented a contract ...
... Company to call upon the Legislature to fix permanently this limit , and make it a part of the charter ; and , road and establishing the contemplated busi- ness . If that had been done , the charter might have presented a contract ...
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Page 87 - When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 357 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Page 193 - It is a finality as to the claim or demand in controversy, concluding parties and those in privity with them, not only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose.
Page 419 - Nothing can call forth this court into activity, but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence : where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore from the beginning of this jurisdiction, there was always a limitation to suits in this court.
Page 65 - 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 155 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 82 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 406 - ... there must be some actual or threatened exercise of power possessed, or believed to be possessed, by the party exacting or receiving the payment over the person or property of another, from which the latter has no other means of immediate relief than by making the payment.
Page 82 - In their exercise It has been customary in England from time immemorial, and in this country from its first colonization, to regulate ferries, common carriers, hackmen, bakers, millers, wharfingers, innkeepers, etc., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold.
Page 333 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered...