United States Reports: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, December Term, 1868, Band 7W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1869 - 780 Seiten |
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... reason why , in the case of a devise in trust for a charity , which has vested and taken effect and fails , a different rule should exist . * Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court , and after observing that the attempt to ...
... reason why , in the case of a devise in trust for a charity , which has vested and taken effect and fails , a different rule should exist . * Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court , and after observing that the attempt to ...
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... reasons for the interference of this court to seize upon the fund , or any part of it , and to deliver it up to the complainants , who never had , and by Syllabus . the will of Stephen Girard , were not Dec. 1868. ] 15 GIRARD V ...
... reasons for the interference of this court to seize upon the fund , or any part of it , and to deliver it up to the complainants , who never had , and by Syllabus . the will of Stephen Girard , were not Dec. 1868. ] 15 GIRARD V ...
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... reason be shown why a contract for the purchase of commodities with an issue of a certificate of debt for them , should not be in the same position ? The object in each case is the same , and the obstacles to the completion of the ...
... reason be shown why a contract for the purchase of commodities with an issue of a certificate of debt for them , should not be in the same position ? The object in each case is the same , and the obstacles to the completion of the ...
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... reason that it does not appear that any order had been granted on behalf of either party to take further proofs . But the obvious answer to the objection is that it comes too late . It should have been made in the court be- low . As ...
... reason that it does not appear that any order had been granted on behalf of either party to take further proofs . But the obvious answer to the objection is that it comes too late . It should have been made in the court be- low . As ...
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... reasons on which it is founded . The rule is founded on the propriety and justice of taking away from the belligerent , not only the power of rescuing his vessel from pressure and impending peril of capture , by escaping into a neutral ...
... reasons on which it is founded . The rule is founded on the propriety and justice of taking away from the belligerent , not only the power of rescuing his vessel from pressure and impending peril of capture , by escaping into a neutral ...
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Seite 134 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Seite 32 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Seite 382 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Seite 653 - Every mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels, hereafter made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and be followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor and as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed as directed in this section.
Seite 391 - States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the supreme Court of the United States...
Seite 507 - That every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute...
Seite 706 - A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed.
Seite 436 - If the remedy at law . is sufficient, equity cannot give relief, "but it is not enough that * there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or. in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.
Seite 706 - Not only therefore can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all of its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Seite 653 - No bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel, of the United States, shall be valid against any person other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs and devisees, and persons having actual notice thereof, unless such bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance is recorded in the office of the collector of the customs where such vessel is registered or enrolled.