Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. [1870-1883], Volume 1Callaghan, 1875 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... purchased buildings and landings , undertook to carry the law into effect by suing for penalties and for injunctions out of the state courts to prohibit other parties from carrying on their business , though carried on , as to locality ...
... purchased buildings and landings , undertook to carry the law into effect by suing for penalties and for injunctions out of the state courts to prohibit other parties from carrying on their business , though carried on , as to locality ...
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... purchased said steamer at Shreveport , Louisiana , for his own individual use and profit . That on the 12th of March , 1863 , while libellant was making a trip on his own account for private parties on the Mississippi and Red rivers ...
... purchased said steamer at Shreveport , Louisiana , for his own individual use and profit . That on the 12th of March , 1863 , while libellant was making a trip on his own account for private parties on the Mississippi and Red rivers ...
Page 56
... purchase of cotton in the insurrectionary districts . The pretense that he ordered his gold from its safe depository in New Orleans to his planta- tion , merely to hoard it , is too transparent to deceive any one . Let a decree be ...
... purchase of cotton in the insurrectionary districts . The pretense that he ordered his gold from its safe depository in New Orleans to his planta- tion , merely to hoard it , is too transparent to deceive any one . Let a decree be ...
Page 57
... as trustees for her of the lands thus previously disposed of , and elects to receive the purchase money , instead of following the lands themselves . Gaines vs. Lizardi and others . This claim , I AT CHAMBERS , JUNE , 1870 . 57.
... as trustees for her of the lands thus previously disposed of , and elects to receive the purchase money , instead of following the lands themselves . Gaines vs. Lizardi and others . This claim , I AT CHAMBERS , JUNE , 1870 . 57.
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... purchased the property so described and claimed by him as aforesaid , was bound to take notice of the circumstances which rendered the actions and doings of the said Beverley Chew and Richard Relf , in the premises , illegal , null and ...
... purchased the property so described and claimed by him as aforesaid , was bound to take notice of the circumstances which rendered the actions and doings of the said Beverley Chew and Richard Relf , in the premises , illegal , null and ...
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Page 515 - States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United 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...
Page 305 - Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude...
Page 135 - ... or more than two years prior to his application, and not in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years...
Page 704 - That in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court.
Page 234 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 410 - ... made with a view to prevent his property from coming to his assignee in bankruptcy, or to prevent the same from being distributed under this act...
Page 330 - ... any fact which clearly proves it to be against conscience to execute a judgment, and of which the injured party could not have availed himself in a court of law, or of which he might have availed himself at law, but was prevented by fraud or accident, unmixed with any fault or negligence in himself or his agents, will justify an application to a court of chancery.
Page 457 - That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine, or in any other place or district of country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of wilful murder, such person or persons, on being thereof convicted, shall suffer death.
Page 509 - ... questions of a more general nature, not at all dependent upon local statutes or local usages of a fixed and permanent operation, as for example, to the construction of ordinary contracts or other written instruments, and especially to questions of general commercial law, where the state tribunals are called upon to perform the like functions as ourselves; that is, to ascertain upon general reasoning and legal analogies, what is the true exposition of the contract or instrument, or what is the...
Page 461 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment