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 54
... lands five hundred and twenty- Madison was admissible on the trial , and ought not two acres of land entered for John Preston , to have been excluded by the court . four hundred and twenty - five acres for Will- iam Garrard ; both ...
... lands five hundred and twenty- Madison was admissible on the trial , and ought not two acres of land entered for John Preston , to have been excluded by the court . four hundred and twenty - five acres for Will- iam Garrard ; both ...
Page 79
... land , that they should re - imburse him for the past costs to which they had subjected him , before they should be permitted to proceed further . Rules of this kind are granted by the court to meet the justice and exigences of cases as ...
... land , that they should re - imburse him for the past costs to which they had subjected him , before they should be permitted to proceed further . Rules of this kind are granted by the court to meet the justice and exigences of cases as ...
Page 141
... land , contain- ing fifty - five thousand three hundred and nine- ty acres , in the State of Kentucky . The suit was afterwards dismissed by the plaintiffs as to forty of the defendants . | the tract under that grant : and that tenement.
... land , contain- ing fifty - five thousand three hundred and nine- ty acres , in the State of Kentucky . The suit was afterwards dismissed by the plaintiffs as to forty of the defendants . | the tract under that grant : and that tenement.
Page 145
... land in controversy was embraced by that writ- ing . As the obscurity arose out of the defend ants ' proof , and affected their defense , it was incumbent upon them to clear it up . The plaintiff had made out his cause of action clear ...
... land in controversy was embraced by that writ- ing . As the obscurity arose out of the defend ants ' proof , and affected their defense , it was incumbent upon them to clear it up . The plaintiff had made out his cause of action clear ...
Page 147
... land , and to such person or persons , and at such time or times , as he shall think proper ; " - " and execute all such deeds , contracts , and bargains , " & c . The statute under which this relinquishment by James B. Clarke was made ...
... land , and to such person or persons , and at such time or times , as he shall think proper ; " - " and execute all such deeds , contracts , and bargains , " & c . The statute under which this relinquishment by James B. Clarke was made ...
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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.