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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Page 34
... follows : * * * " That all the right and title of the United States to the lands within the corporate limits of the City of San Francisco are hereby relinquished and granted to the said City and its successors , for the uses and ...
... follows : * * * " That all the right and title of the United States to the lands within the corporate limits of the City of San Francisco are hereby relinquished and granted to the said City and its successors , for the uses and ...
Page 36
... follows that the clamps may be made to vibrate laterally ; but it also appears that two stops are provided , which pass through the top pieces of the beds , one through each top piece , for the purpose of lim- iting and regulating the ...
... follows that the clamps may be made to vibrate laterally ; but it also appears that two stops are provided , which pass through the top pieces of the beds , one through each top piece , for the purpose of lim- iting and regulating the ...
Page 49
... follows that the Circuit Court erred in directing that execution might issue in this case against the garnishee if payment should not be made according to the order . To that extent the order of the Circuit Court is re- versed , but in ...
... follows that the Circuit Court erred in directing that execution might issue in this case against the garnishee if payment should not be made according to the order . To that extent the order of the Circuit Court is re- versed , but in ...
Page 65
... follows section 23 , which provides " that a writ of error as aforesaid . " clearly referring to the writ pro- vided for in the preceding section , " shall be a supersedeas , and stay execution in cases only where the writ of error is ...
... follows section 23 , which provides " that a writ of error as aforesaid . " clearly referring to the writ pro- vided for in the preceding section , " shall be a supersedeas , and stay execution in cases only where the writ of error is ...
Page 72
... follows : The judgment in this case is affirmed , with costs and five hundred dollars damages for delay , in addition to interest . No further opinion will be delivered . [ No. 114. ] Submitted Nov. 24 , 1876. Decided Jan. 29 , 1877 ...
... follows : The judgment in this case is affirmed , with costs and five hundred dollars damages for delay , in addition to interest . No further opinion will be delivered . [ No. 114. ] Submitted Nov. 24 , 1876. Decided Jan. 29 , 1877 ...
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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...