The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection UnionRoberts & Purvis, 1883 - Law |
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... issue involved in this exploit of a sea captain . They neither questioned its policy nor doubted its legality . To them it was a matter between themselves and the public enemy alone . It meant in their sight only the capture of two ...
... issue involved in this exploit of a sea captain . They neither questioned its policy nor doubted its legality . To them it was a matter between themselves and the public enemy alone . It meant in their sight only the capture of two ...
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... issue with the secretary on this proposition . The contraband character of the commissioners and their dispatches , then , is the standard by which the captor's rights must be measured , and if the seizure cannot be justified on that ...
... issue with the secretary on this proposition . The contraband character of the commissioners and their dispatches , then , is the standard by which the captor's rights must be measured , and if the seizure cannot be justified on that ...
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... issue between Secre- tary Seward and Lord Russell was upon the right of capture . So far as the discussion has proceeded on the footing of precedent , the authorities examined have been exclusively British . The investigation has been ...
... issue between Secre- tary Seward and Lord Russell was upon the right of capture . So far as the discussion has proceeded on the footing of precedent , the authorities examined have been exclusively British . The investigation has been ...
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... issues . By JOEL PRENTISS BISHOP . Vols . I. and II . Sixth Edition , Revised and Enlarged . Boston : Little , Brown & Co. 1881 . It will serve no good end with our readers to notice at length a book like this , in its sixth edition ...
... issues . By JOEL PRENTISS BISHOP . Vols . I. and II . Sixth Edition , Revised and Enlarged . Boston : Little , Brown & Co. 1881 . It will serve no good end with our readers to notice at length a book like this , in its sixth edition ...
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... issue ; and that qualification said to have been due to a blunder as to the meaning of a passage in " Bracton " —is an excellent safe- guard of rogues . It is not in practice so easy as it might , at first blush , seem , to prove that ...
... issue ; and that qualification said to have been due to a blunder as to the meaning of a passage in " Bracton " —is an excellent safe- guard of rogues . It is not in practice so easy as it might , at first blush , seem , to prove that ...
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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.