Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 16West Publishing Company, 1896 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... GRANT - FORFEITURE- AMOUNT OF LAND EARNED - COMPUTATION . 1. Act Cong . May 12 , 1864 , granted to the state of Iowa , to aid in the construction of two railroads in that state , alternate sections of land within 10 miles of the ...
... GRANT - FORFEITURE- AMOUNT OF LAND EARNED - COMPUTATION . 1. Act Cong . May 12 , 1864 , granted to the state of Iowa , to aid in the construction of two railroads in that state , alternate sections of land within 10 miles of the ...
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... grants for the road from Sioux City to the Minnesota line and the grant to the McGreg- or Company necessarily came in conflict . That case came to this court upon the appeal of the Sioux City Company , and it was here adjudged ( 1 ) ...
... grants for the road from Sioux City to the Minnesota line and the grant to the McGreg- or Company necessarily came in conflict . That case came to this court upon the appeal of the Sioux City Company , and it was here adjudged ( 1 ) ...
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... grant of March 3 , 1857. The latter is the road referred to in the seventh section of the act of May 12 , 1864. Upon the construction by the Sioux City Company of the road from the Minne- sota line to Le Mars , that corporation ob ...
... grant of March 3 , 1857. The latter is the road referred to in the seventh section of the act of May 12 , 1864. Upon the construction by the Sioux City Company of the road from the Minne- sota line to Le Mars , that corporation ob ...
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... grant , we must assume that each odd - numbered sec- tion in the place limits contained its full com- plement of 640 acres , and that , if any section contained in fact less than that quantity , the United States was under a legal ...
... grant , we must assume that each odd - numbered sec- tion in the place limits contained its full com- plement of 640 acres , and that , if any section contained in fact less than that quantity , the United States was under a legal ...
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... grant was directly to the railroad com- pany , or in which the act of congress re- quired that the patents for lands earned should be issued , not to the state for the ben- efit of the railroad company , but directly to the company ...
... grant was directly to the railroad com- pany , or in which the act of congress re- quired that the patents for lands earned should be issued , not to the state for the ben- efit of the railroad company , but directly to the company ...
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Page 438 - The shareholders of each association formed under the provisions of this act, and of each existing bank or banking association that may accept the provisions of this act, shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 141 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 76 - In the patent office a written description of the same, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using It, in such full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which It appertains, or with which It is most nearly connected, to make, construct compound, and use the same...
Page 270 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant...
Page 57 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guaranties equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Page 68 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 285 - ... no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located.
Page 427 - Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional.
Page 242 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises...
Page 146 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.