Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States: 1-351 U.S; 1790- October term, 1955, Book 8Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 27
... effect , and in reliance on them a large cession of lands was thereby made ; and in 1819 , on the 27th February , another treaty was made , the pre- amble of which recites that a greater part of the Cherokee Nation had expressed an ...
... effect , and in reliance on them a large cession of lands was thereby made ; and in 1819 , on the 27th February , another treaty was made , the pre- amble of which recites that a greater part of the Cherokee Nation had expressed an ...
Page 35
... effect declare the laws and treaties under which the other party claims , null and void . It proceeds to carry into effect those laws by means of physical force ; and the other party appeals to the executive depart- ment for protection ...
... effect declare the laws and treaties under which the other party claims , null and void . It proceeds to carry into effect those laws by means of physical force ; and the other party appeals to the executive depart- ment for protection ...
Page 76
... effect , true intent and meaning of the said articles of agreement ; and of this he puts himself on the country , & c . The question presented to the court , on the record of the proceedings of the court below on the trial of this issue ...
... effect , true intent and meaning of the said articles of agreement ; and of this he puts himself on the country , & c . The question presented to the court , on the record of the proceedings of the court below on the trial of this issue ...
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... effect by the death of the testator . The the law to give it this meaning . interposition of the names of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay had no other legal operation than to make them the conduits through whom the estate was to pass . The ...
... effect by the death of the testator . The the law to give it this meaning . interposition of the names of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay had no other legal operation than to make them the conduits through whom the estate was to pass . The ...
Page 86
... effect - rights of judgment creditor -- as- signment of contingent interest - effect of special act discharging debtors from imprisonment- neglect of officer - equity . In the original bill filed by the United States in the Circuit ...
... effect - rights of judgment creditor -- as- signment of contingent interest - effect of special act discharging debtors from imprisonment- neglect of officer - equity . In the original bill filed by the United States in the Circuit ...
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Page 237 - ... obligation shall be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 38 - States : regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 100 - That all the beforementioned courts of the United 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.
Page 383 - ... in actions of debt or upon the case grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract...
Page 37 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district and for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations...
Page 260 - ... at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the permission of the trial court being first had upon proper application and cause shown.
Page 353 - That where any revenue officer or other person hereafter becoming indebted to the United States, by bond or otherwise, shall become insolvent, or where the estate of any deceased debtor in the hands of executors or administrators shall be insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debt due to the United States shall be first satisfied...
Page 356 - And shall also have jurisdiction exclusively of the courts of the several States, of all suits against consuls or vice-consuls, except for offences above the description aforesaid.
Page 430 - Is not that very question a question of fact, or a mixed question of law and fact ? Certainly it is.
Page 126 - The supreme court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens, or between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter cases it shall have original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction.