The American Law Register, Volume 8D.B. Canfield & Company, 1869 - Law |
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... defendant and one William W. Babcock , jointly . There were two sales - one of 200 bales , and one of 36 bales . Both sales were made at Helena , on the 26th of July 1862. The agreed price was 143 cents per pound . The average weight of ...
... defendant and one William W. Babcock , jointly . There were two sales - one of 200 bales , and one of 36 bales . Both sales were made at Helena , on the 26th of July 1862. The agreed price was 143 cents per pound . The average weight of ...
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... defendant . Opinion of the court by SWAYNE , J. - The plaintiff is entitled to recover unless the grounds of defence relied upon by the defendant shall be found sufficient to protect him . If liable , the measure of his liability is the ...
... defendant . Opinion of the court by SWAYNE , J. - The plaintiff is entitled to recover unless the grounds of defence relied upon by the defendant shall be found sufficient to protect him . If liable , the measure of his liability is the ...
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... defendant , Julia Ann Freeman , who alone defended the action , has appealed from the judgment to the gene- ral term of this court . Waters & Waters , for plaintiff . Miner & Kern , for defendant Julia Ann Freeman . BALCOM , P. J. - The ...
... defendant , Julia Ann Freeman , who alone defended the action , has appealed from the judgment to the gene- ral term of this court . Waters & Waters , for plaintiff . Miner & Kern , for defendant Julia Ann Freeman . BALCOM , P. J. - The ...
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... defendants and the use thereof so long as they or either of them should live . The plaintiff is the father of the defendant James W. Freeman . For some cause , not explained by the evidence , James W. Free- man left his wife and the ...
... defendants and the use thereof so long as they or either of them should live . The plaintiff is the father of the defendant James W. Freeman . For some cause , not explained by the evidence , James W. Free- man left his wife and the ...
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... defendants , within the time they occupied the land in dispute , might , if they had lived elsewhere , have earned and saved property of greater value than this land . Had the defendant , James W. Freeman , remained on the land with his ...
... defendants , within the time they occupied the land in dispute , might , if they had lived elsewhere , have earned and saved property of greater value than this land . Had the defendant , James W. Freeman , remained on the land with his ...
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Page 623 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto ; that I have neither sought nor accepted not attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 230 - And where a suit is now pending, or may be hereafter brought, in any State court, in which there is a controversy between a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought and a citizen of another State...
Page 230 - State, may remove such suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said circuit court that from prejudice or local influence he will not be able to obtain justice in such State court...
Page 361 - ... all cases where any person may be restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the constitution, or of any treaty or law of the United States...
Page 373 - 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.
Page 518 - As this power had been exercised from time immemorial by the executive of that nation whose language is our language, and to whose judicial institutions ours bear a close resemblance, we adopt their principles respecting the operation and effect of a pardon, and look into their books for the rules prescribing the manner in which it is to be used by the person who would avail himself of it.
Page 349 - States, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States, is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed...
Page 372 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 247 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created.
Page 329 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...