The American Law Register, Volume 8D.B. Canfield & Company, 1869 - Law |
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... express purpose of preventing the act from applying to cases like this : Farrington v . Blish , 14 Maine 423 ; Murdock v . Stickney , 8 Cush . 117 ; Bates v . Wey- mouth Iron Co. , Id . 552 . 3. It is not properly found , within the ...
... express purpose of preventing the act from applying to cases like this : Farrington v . Blish , 14 Maine 423 ; Murdock v . Stickney , 8 Cush . 117 ; Bates v . Wey- mouth Iron Co. , Id . 552 . 3. It is not properly found , within the ...
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... express agreement . " This , however , is not the popular acceptation of the word . Says the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ( 3 Met . 526 ) : " The word debt is of large import , including not only debts of record , or judgments , and ...
... express agreement . " This , however , is not the popular acceptation of the word . Says the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ( 3 Met . 526 ) : " The word debt is of large import , including not only debts of record , or judgments , and ...
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... express rob- bers , charged with assault with intent to murder , Chief Justice DRAPER , of the Court of Queen's Bench of Upper Canada ( since promoted to the presidency of the Court of Appeal of the New Dominion ) , delivered at Toronto ...
... express rob- bers , charged with assault with intent to murder , Chief Justice DRAPER , of the Court of Queen's Bench of Upper Canada ( since promoted to the presidency of the Court of Appeal of the New Dominion ) , delivered at Toronto ...
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... express injunction of an Act of Congress , did not discharge the surety : The Commonwealth v . Brice , 10 Harris 211 . others . The reasons so clearly stated by Judge STORY in regard to offi- cers of government , apply with equal force ...
... express injunction of an Act of Congress , did not discharge the surety : The Commonwealth v . Brice , 10 Harris 211 . others . The reasons so clearly stated by Judge STORY in regard to offi- cers of government , apply with equal force ...
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... express purpose of avoid- ing his claim , which would be void under the statute against fraudulent con- veyances as to creditors . And he could not claim to recover a penalty inflicted against debtors for fraudulent convey- ances , to ...
... express purpose of avoid- ing his claim , which would be void under the statute against fraudulent con- veyances as to creditors . And he could not claim to recover a penalty inflicted against debtors for fraudulent convey- ances , to ...
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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...