The Supreme Court Reporter, Volumes 3-4West Publishing Company, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... question , as well as that of section 820. The judges having disagreed upon the motion in arrest of judgment , certified up the following questions for the determination of this court , namely : ( 1 ) Whether sections 5512 and 5515 of ...
... question , as well as that of section 820. The judges having disagreed upon the motion in arrest of judgment , certified up the following questions for the determination of this court , namely : ( 1 ) Whether sections 5512 and 5515 of ...
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... question cannot be sustained by any grant of legislative power made to congress by the fourteenth amendment . That amendment prohibits the states from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws , and declares that congress ...
... question cannot be sustained by any grant of legislative power made to congress by the fourteenth amendment . That amendment prohibits the states from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws , and declares that congress ...
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... question as to the construction of the instruments of February 1 , 1869 , was an open one , and was a question of general law , and not one as to a rule of property , and that there was nothing in the former suit which , as res ...
... question as to the construction of the instruments of February 1 , 1869 , was an open one , and was a question of general law , and not one as to a rule of property , and that there was nothing in the former suit which , as res ...
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... question is whether a statute of Delaware , under which the fees are claimed , is valid . If valid in Delaware it is in Pennsylvania , and the court sitting in Pennsylvania is as com- petent to decide that question in a suit of which it ...
... question is whether a statute of Delaware , under which the fees are claimed , is valid . If valid in Delaware it is in Pennsylvania , and the court sitting in Pennsylvania is as com- petent to decide that question in a suit of which it ...
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... question being of new manufacture and unknown at the date of the passage of the act , was not cov- ered by the specific enumeration of the statute , and the appropriate duty must be determined by the final clause of the statute ...
... question being of new manufacture and unknown at the date of the passage of the act , was not cov- ered by the specific enumeration of the statute , and the appropriate duty must be determined by the final clause of the statute ...
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Page 37 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 36 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 412 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States, shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 342 - ... along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface...
Page 10 - ... 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 388 - States," in those of equity and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity and to courts of admiralty respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law...
Page 263 - All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act, shall be severally, individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders, to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of capital stock fixed and limited by such company shall have been paid in...
Page 71 - All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.
Page 401 - ... set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit amongst them...
Page 25 - In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against State aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported by State authority in the shape of laws, customs, or Judicial or executive proceedings.