United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 117United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1886 - Courts |
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... interest in the subject matter of the suit , but defend only as representing the State , the State is the real party against whom the relief is sought , and the suit is substantially within the prohibition of the XIth Amendment to the ...
... interest in the subject matter of the suit , but defend only as representing the State , the State is the real party against whom the relief is sought , and the suit is substantially within the prohibition of the XIth Amendment to the ...
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... interest on the public debt . The act also provided as follows : " SEC . 4. That the faith and funds of the State are hereby pledged for the ultimate redemption of said revenue bond scrip , and the county treasurers are hereby required ...
... interest on the public debt . The act also provided as follows : " SEC . 4. That the faith and funds of the State are hereby pledged for the ultimate redemption of said revenue bond scrip , and the county treasurers are hereby required ...
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... interest on the State debt . It does not aver any demand from the State treasury or any tender to the county treasurer . Its object is plainly to obtain from this court a dec- laration that the legislative acts of October 22d and ...
... interest on the State debt . It does not aver any demand from the State treasury or any tender to the county treasurer . Its object is plainly to obtain from this court a dec- laration that the legislative acts of October 22d and ...
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... interest on the public debt ; that the several parties holding , or claiming to hold , the said treasury certificates of indebtedness , bona fide and for value , may be called in and admitted to prove the same before a proper person to ...
... interest on the public debt ; that the several parties holding , or claiming to hold , the said treasury certificates of indebtedness , bona fide and for value , may be called in and admitted to prove the same before a proper person to ...
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... interest on the public debt ; that proper process do issue out of and under the seal of this court against the comptroller - general of the State of South Carolina for the time being , and his successors in office , compelling and ...
... interest on the public debt ; that proper process do issue out of and under the seal of this court against the comptroller - general of the State of South Carolina for the time being , and his successors in office , compelling and ...
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Page 234 - ... the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the state within which such circuit or district courts are held, any rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding,
Page 575 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the United States.
Page 35 - All property shall be taxed according to its value; that value to be ascertained in such manner as the legislature shall direct, so that the same shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of equal value.
Page 158 - If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom house ; they may tax judicial process ; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent...
Page 316 - Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses, and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment, or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...
Page 312 - Any carrier or party liable on account of loss of or damage to any of said property shall have the full benefit of any insurance that may have been effected upon or on account of said property, so far as this shall not avoid the policies or contracts of insurance: Provided, That the carrier reimburse the claimant for the premium paid thereon.
Page 579 - States no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color, or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried : Provided, 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 \vith, or statement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to...
Page 431 - ... if the suit is one in which there can be a final determination of the controversy, so far as it concerns him, without the presence of the other defendants as parties in the cause...
Page 108 - ... would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth.
Page 246 - The court, or justice, or judge shall proceed in a summary way to determine the facts of the case, by hearing the testimony and arguments, and thereupon to dispose of the party as law and justice require.