United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 217United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1910 - Courts |
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... Congress in such case made and provided , and that such allotment be entered of record , viz : For the First Circuit , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Associate Justice . For the Second Circuit . Horace H. Lurton , Associate Justice . For the ...
... Congress in such case made and provided , and that such allotment be entered of record , viz : For the First Circuit , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Associate Justice . For the Second Circuit . Horace H. Lurton , Associate Justice . For the ...
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... Congress of March , 1804 ; Reynolds v . M'Arthur , 2 Pet . 417 ; Acts of West Virginia of 1868 , ch . 175 , and of May 3 , 1887 . It was only three years after that act was passed that this suit was instituted in this court by the ...
... Congress of March , 1804 ; Reynolds v . M'Arthur , 2 Pet . 417 ; Acts of West Virginia of 1868 , ch . 175 , and of May 3 , 1887 . It was only three years after that act was passed that this suit was instituted in this court by the ...
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... Congress to this final compact may be either express or implied . And the assent of Congress is implied from the fact that in the laying out of Federal judicial and revenue districts , and in the holding of Federal elections the line so ...
... Congress to this final compact may be either express or implied . And the assent of Congress is implied from the fact that in the laying out of Federal judicial and revenue districts , and in the holding of Federal elections the line so ...
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... CONGRESS , by an act entitled " An act to Aid the State of Louisiana in Draining the Swamp Lands therein , " approved March 2 , 1849 ( 9 Stat . 352 , c . 87 ) , granted to that State " the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands " in ...
... CONGRESS , by an act entitled " An act to Aid the State of Louisiana in Draining the Swamp Lands therein , " approved March 2 , 1849 ( 9 Stat . 352 , c . 87 ) , granted to that State " the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands " in ...
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... Congress heretofore referred to . These cer- tificates were sold and assigned by McEnery , and his assignees located them upon public lands , some of which had not been recovered by McEnery under his contract . To some of the as ...
... Congress heretofore referred to . These cer- tificates were sold and assigned by McEnery , and his assignees located them upon public lands , some of which had not been recovered by McEnery under his contract . To some of the as ...
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Page 389 - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Page 82 - These provisions are universal in their application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction, without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality ; and the equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws.
Page 278 - 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 631 - ... within the meaning of .the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Page 122 - Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways.
Page 122 - All such regulations, and those of like character, so long as they proceed within reasonable limits and general usage, are within the discretion of the state legislature, or the people of the state in framing their constitution.
Page 173 - ... over the person of the railway company. "A special appeart> anee," it is contended, "can never serve a » dual or triple purpose, but is only allowed for the sole purpose of objecting to the jurisdiction of the court over the person of the defendant.
Page 358 - The plaintiff in error or appellant shall file with the clerk of the court below, with his petition for the writ of error or appeal, an assignment of errors, which shall set out separately and particularly each error asserted and intended to be urged.
Page 244 - That the constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the s*ame force and effect within the said territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 326 - MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court. This is a bill in equity brought by the...