The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection UnionRoberts & Purvis, 1883 - Law |
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... decided the case before it , and was careful to qualify its opinion by the words " under the cir- cumstances of this case . " The general rule announced in Carpenter v . Longan has been adopted in Massachusetts , Maine , Michigan ...
... decided the case before it , and was careful to qualify its opinion by the words " under the cir- cumstances of this case . " The general rule announced in Carpenter v . Longan has been adopted in Massachusetts , Maine , Michigan ...
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... decided in 1793. Twenty - three years before , the playwrights had been exercised over the dispute formulated in Macklin v . Richardson . The subject of the dispute was a popular farce , named " Love , à la Mode . " Macklin , the author ...
... decided in 1793. Twenty - three years before , the playwrights had been exercised over the dispute formulated in Macklin v . Richardson . The subject of the dispute was a popular farce , named " Love , à la Mode . " Macklin , the author ...
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... decided that under a statute relating to printing , no rights were granted the plaintiff . Murray v . Elliston 3 throws no light on the sub- ject . So we are reduced to Macklin v . Richardson , + which holds that the public ...
... decided that under a statute relating to printing , no rights were granted the plaintiff . Murray v . Elliston 3 throws no light on the sub- ject . So we are reduced to Macklin v . Richardson , + which holds that the public ...
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... decided , shows the law to be applied was not necessarily involved in that judgment . But the last and final step in the strange , eventful history of this case is yet to come.1 On February 27 , 1872 , the Court of Appeals sustained ...
... decided , shows the law to be applied was not necessarily involved in that judgment . But the last and final step in the strange , eventful history of this case is yet to come.1 On February 27 , 1872 , the Court of Appeals sustained ...
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... decided also against Maguire , on the ground that the piece was not a dramatic composition such as is covered by the statute . The court held the play to be merely a " spectacle , " and expressed this view of it : " The principal part ...
... decided also against Maguire , on the ground that the piece was not a dramatic composition such as is covered by the statute . The court held the play to be merely a " spectacle , " and expressed this view of it : " The principal part ...
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Page 417 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Page 590 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 417 - Chancery jurisdiction is conferred on the courts of the United States with the limitation " that suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any case where plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law.
Page 401 - I do not hear yet, that you have spoken one word against me; here is no treason of mine done; if my Lord Cobham be a traitor, what is that to me ? Coke — All that he did was by thy instigation, thou viper ; for I thou thee, thou traitor!
Page 170 - ... in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.
Page 218 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Page 420 - 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 218 - A corporation cannot change its residence or its citizenship. It can have its legal home only at the place where it is located by or under the authority of its charter; but it may by its agents transact business anywhere, unless prohibited by its charter or excluded by local laws.
Page 369 - To apply any portion of the funds of such corporation, except surplus profits, directly or indirectly, to the purchase of shares of its own stock ; or 6.
Page 85 - The decisions on the subject of passengers' baggage turn upon the question : What articles may baggage consist of ? This is a mixed question of law and fact, to be determined by the jury under proper instructions from the court.