Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 10Published for John Conrad and Company, 1851 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Territorial courts to the District Court of the United States , of all cases appropriate to the jurisdiction of the new ... Territory . In the District Court of Iowa County , on the 3d of November , 1845 , the plaintiff in error sued out ...
... Territorial courts to the District Court of the United States , of all cases appropriate to the jurisdiction of the new ... Territory . In the District Court of Iowa County , on the 3d of November , 1845 , the plaintiff in error sued out ...
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... Territory , where the judgment of the District Court was affirmed . The plaintiff in error will contend here , that the judgment of the said Supreme Court ought to be reversed , because , - First , the District Court erred in striking ...
... Territory , where the judgment of the District Court was affirmed . The plaintiff in error will contend here , that the judgment of the said Supreme Court ought to be reversed , because , - First , the District Court erred in striking ...
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... Territory of Wisconsin . The affidavit of the plaintiff , dated 3d November , 1845 , sets forth a debt " arising out of , and based and founded upon , a judgment at law , " obtained three days before ( 31st October , 1845 ) , in a ...
... Territory of Wisconsin . The affidavit of the plaintiff , dated 3d November , 1845 , sets forth a debt " arising out of , and based and founded upon , a judgment at law , " obtained three days before ( 31st October , 1845 ) , in a ...
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... Territory . Statutes of Wisconsin , p . 246 ; Act concerning Testimony , & c . , § 51 . If the points assigned as error shall not have been sufficient- ly answered above , to the satisfaction of the court , the counsel for the ...
... Territory . Statutes of Wisconsin , p . 246 ; Act concerning Testimony , & c . , § 51 . If the points assigned as error shall not have been sufficient- ly answered above , to the satisfaction of the court , the counsel for the ...
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... Territory is 31st July , 1847. The citation upon this writ of error was served 4th December , 1847. The record was filed here 29th February , 1848. This case , therefore , was not " pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory " at the ...
... Territory is 31st July , 1847. The citation upon this writ of error was served 4th December , 1847. The record was filed here 29th February , 1848. This case , therefore , was not " pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory " at the ...
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Page 94 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 315 - ... where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity...
Page 410 - But the object and end of all government is to promote the happiness and prosperity of the community by which it is established; and it can never be assumed that the government intended to diminish its power of accomplishing the end for which it was created.
Page 410 - ... that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.
Page 195 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 450 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same -with my hand. Done at the City of Washington, this 10th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-seventh.
Page 538 - This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered, adjudged, and decreed by this Court, that the decree of the said...
Page 156 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Page 334 - ... the duty of the commissioner to renew and extend the patent, by making a certificate thereon of such extension, for the term of seven years, from and after the expiration of the first term...
Page 212 - The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency.