Albany Law Journal, Volume 22Weed, Parsons & Company, 1880 - Law |
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... granted by a State Legislature authorizing a lot- tery for a special time , in consideration of certain pay- ments into the State treasury , is not a contract protected by the provision of the Federal Constitution forbidding State ...
... granted by a State Legislature authorizing a lot- tery for a special time , in consideration of certain pay- ments into the State treasury , is not a contract protected by the provision of the Federal Constitution forbidding State ...
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... granted away . The people , in their sovereign capacity , have established their agencies for the preservation of the public health and the public morals and the pro- tection of public and private rights . These several agencies can ...
... granted away . The people , in their sovereign capacity , have established their agencies for the preservation of the public health and the public morals and the pro- tection of public and private rights . These several agencies can ...
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... granted . The Supreme Court , reversing this judgment , said : " The alleged agreement or condition , on account of the non - performance of which relief is here sought , was that a railroad company , chartered by an act of the ...
... granted . The Supreme Court , reversing this judgment , said : " The alleged agreement or condition , on account of the non - performance of which relief is here sought , was that a railroad company , chartered by an act of the ...
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... granted in a contract which is illegal or against public policy , to a party who is in puri delicto , is abundantly and uniformly sustained by authority . In Bestor v . Wathen , 60 Ill . 138 , it is said : " The defendants in the court ...
... granted in a contract which is illegal or against public policy , to a party who is in puri delicto , is abundantly and uniformly sustained by authority . In Bestor v . Wathen , 60 Ill . 138 , it is said : " The defendants in the court ...
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... granted . The allowance of the appeal to Ordway was a judicial act of the court in term time . The order was entered on the minutes as part of what was done in the cause by the court while in session . In ea parte Lange , 18 Wall . 167 ...
... granted . The allowance of the appeal to Ordway was a judicial act of the court in term time . The order was entered on the minutes as part of what was done in the cause by the court while in session . In ea parte Lange , 18 Wall . 167 ...
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Page 44 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.
Page 149 - Legislature so next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people...
Page 326 - ... that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such state...
Page 46 - Provided, that the legislature may at any time extend by law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated; but no such law shall be in force until the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the people at a general election, and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election...
Page 209 - Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It Is consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature whenever it operates of itself, without the aid of any legislative provision...
Page 192 - 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 27 - The acts of the Legislature of the United States made in pursuance of this Constitution, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the several States, and of their citizens and inhabitants ; and the Judges in the several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the Constitutions or laws of the several States to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 277 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter addressed to the person on whom it is to be served at his last known place of residence...
Page 148 - That the inhabitants of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, be, and they are hereby authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper, and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union, upon the same footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.
Page 192 - It never has been supposed by us, that the section did apply, or was designed to apply, to questions of a more general nature, not at all dependent upon local statutes or local usages of a fixed and permanent operation...