Some Account of the Work of Stephen J. Field: As a Legislator, State Judge, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesChauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith 1895 - Constitutional history - 787 pages "And an appendix containing his remarks on the life and character of Chief Justice Chase; his address at the centennial celebration of the organization of the federal judiciary, February 4, 1890; the memorial from senators from California, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho ... requesting him not to change his circuit; and the story of his attempted assassination by a former associate on the Supreme Bench of California."--T.p. |
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... determined upon a legislative policy . He understood the material upon which any legislation must work ; he was familiar with the miners as a class , and knew their habits and peculiarities , their common sense and gen- eral love for ...
... determined upon a legislative policy . He understood the material upon which any legislation must work ; he was familiar with the miners as a class , and knew their habits and peculiarities , their common sense and gen- eral love for ...
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... determined . The most important of these causes , opinions , controversies , and doctrines may be found , set forth at sufficient length and fully explained , in the printed volume to which this sketch is designed as an in- troduction ...
... determined . The most important of these causes , opinions , controversies , and doctrines may be found , set forth at sufficient length and fully explained , in the printed volume to which this sketch is designed as an in- troduction ...
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... determined . The civil law , modified and adulterated by passing through the Spanish - Mexican Codes , was acknowledged as furnishing the rules control- ling many of the older land titles . In the absence of positive law , the various ...
... determined . The civil law , modified and adulterated by passing through the Spanish - Mexican Codes , was acknowledged as furnishing the rules control- ling many of the older land titles . In the absence of positive law , the various ...
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... determined their work . The pre - eminence which he thus attained was universally recognized . Many of the decisions of the Court , however , though ex- hibiting great ability and learning , were of local interest alone , dealing with ...
... determined their work . The pre - eminence which he thus attained was universally recognized . Many of the decisions of the Court , however , though ex- hibiting great ability and learning , were of local interest alone , dealing with ...
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... determine all private relations and should prevail in all tribunals , both of law and of equity . His opinions explaining , advocating , and enforcing this single equita- ble conception of the mortgage as purely a hypothecation , as ...
... determine all private relations and should prevail in all tribunals , both of law and of equity . His opinions explaining , advocating , and enforcing this single equita- ble conception of the mortgage as purely a hypothecation , as ...
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Page 506 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all ; its powers are delegated by all ; it represents all, and acts for all.
Page 160 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 144 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property...
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Page 32 - I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong, upon this occasion; to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press: I will not avoid doing what I think is right; though it should draw on me the whole artillery of libels; all that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity of a deluded populace can swallow. I can say, with a great magistrate, upon an occasion and under circumstances not unlike, "Ego hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam...
Page 123 - 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...
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Page 458 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 448 - Christian religion to be true, or the holy scriptures to be of divine authority, he shall upon the first offence, be rendered incapable to hold any office or place of trust; and for the second, be rendered incapable of bringing any action, being guardian, executor, legatee, or purchaser of lands, and shall suffer three years
Page 506 - America has chosen to be in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation; and for all these purposes her Government Is complete; to all these objects It is competent.