Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. February Term, 1816[-January Term, 1827], Volume 10R. Donaldson, 1825 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 67
... prosecuted a voyage along the coast of Africa ; her officers and the greater part of her crew being citizens of the United States . Off the coast of Africa she captured an American vessel , from Bristol , in Rhode Island , from which ...
... prosecuted a voyage along the coast of Africa ; her officers and the greater part of her crew being citizens of the United States . Off the coast of Africa she captured an American vessel , from Bristol , in Rhode Island , from which ...
Page 97
... prosecuted in violation of the duty of the citizen . Its ten- dency is to corrupt the morals of the community . It sometimes eventuates in murder . Is it an VOL . X. 13 The Antelope . 1825. offence cognizable by the law of nations as an ...
... prosecuted in violation of the duty of the citizen . Its ten- dency is to corrupt the morals of the community . It sometimes eventuates in murder . Is it an VOL . X. 13 The Antelope . 1825. offence cognizable by the law of nations as an ...
Page 114
... prosecuting this appeal , the United States assert no property in themselves . They appear in the character of guardians , or next friends , of these Africans , who are brought , without any act of their own , into the bosom of our ...
... prosecuting this appeal , the United States assert no property in themselves . They appear in the character of guardians , or next friends , of these Africans , who are brought , without any act of their own , into the bosom of our ...
Page 147
... prosecution by the plaintiff , Thomas , of a writ of error to the Supreme Court to reverse the same , which was dismissed , and then demurred to so much of the bill as sought to review and reverse the said decree . Upon argu- ment of ...
... prosecution by the plaintiff , Thomas , of a writ of error to the Supreme Court to reverse the same , which was dismissed , and then demurred to so much of the bill as sought to review and reverse the said decree . Upon argu- ment of ...
Page 250
... prosecute the said action against the said T. M. , & c . , and in the name of the United States . ( 3. ) For that the declaration proceeds upon the ground , that the several writs of execution therein respectively mentioned , were ...
... prosecute the said action against the said T. M. , & c . , and in the name of the United States . ( 3. ) For that the declaration proceeds upon the ground , that the several writs of execution therein respectively mentioned , were ...
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Page 11 - 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 20 - That all the before-mentioned Courts of the United States, shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 6 - Constitution from abundant caution has. declared, "that the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808.
Page 195 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 154 - We receive the construction given by the courts of the nation as the true sense of the law, and feel ourselves no more at liberty to depart from that construction than to depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the Constitution and laws of the United. States...
Page 235 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 172 - Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced...
Page 276 - An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned,'.
Page 7 - ... any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, not being a native, a citizen, or registered seaman of the United States...