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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... parties as expressed therein . 5 Cyc . , " Boundaries , " 869 ; Horne v . Smith , 159 U. S. 40 ; Reynolds v . McArthur , 2 Pet . 417 ; Handley's Lessee v . Anthony , 5 Wheat . 377 ; Meredith v . Pielert , 9 Wheat . 573 ; 8 Century ...
... parties as expressed therein . 5 Cyc . , " Boundaries , " 869 ; Horne v . Smith , 159 U. S. 40 ; Reynolds v . McArthur , 2 Pet . 417 ; Handley's Lessee v . Anthony , 5 Wheat . 377 ; Meredith v . Pielert , 9 Wheat . 573 ; 8 Century ...
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... parties to this suit . Maryland has presented her claim plainly and definitely upon her plats , shown by the result of actual survey upon the ground , and precisely indicating the boundary for which she contends as lawfully hers . 217 ...
... parties to this suit . Maryland has presented her claim plainly and definitely upon her plats , shown by the result of actual survey upon the ground , and precisely indicating the boundary for which she contends as lawfully hers . 217 ...
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... parties , we submit the inquiry to this tribunal , whether the strongest presumption ought not to obtain in favor of the clear and definite location which Maryland has made . There has been no acquiescence upon the part of Maryland in ...
... parties , we submit the inquiry to this tribunal , whether the strongest presumption ought not to obtain in favor of the clear and definite location which Maryland has made . There has been no acquiescence upon the part of Maryland in ...
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... parties . Second : That the charter calls for running from the Dela- ware Bay in a right line in the fortieth degree of north latitude to the true meridian or the first source or fountain of the Potomac River , thence " tending downward ...
... parties . Second : That the charter calls for running from the Dela- ware Bay in a right line in the fortieth degree of north latitude to the true meridian or the first source or fountain of the Potomac River , thence " tending downward ...
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... parties for a long course of years , is conclusive , even if it be ascertained that it varies somewhat from the courses given in the original grant , and the line so estab- lished , takes effect not as an alienation of territory , but ...
... parties for a long course of years , is conclusive , even if it be ascertained that it varies somewhat from the courses given in the original grant , and the line so estab- lished , takes effect not as an alienation of territory , but ...
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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.
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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.
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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...