Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1873 - Law |
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... Port Gibson v . Clarke Nevius v . Bank of Lansingburgh New Albany & Salem R.R. v . Tilton Newall r . Wright iv . 155 a , 181 e ii . 162 a New Brunswick & Canada Railway , & c . , Co. v . Cony beare ii . 284 , n . 1 , 490 , Newburgh ...
... Port Gibson v . Clarke Nevius v . Bank of Lansingburgh New Albany & Salem R.R. v . Tilton Newall r . Wright iv . 155 a , 181 e ii . 162 a New Brunswick & Canada Railway , & c . , Co. v . Cony beare ii . 284 , n . 1 , 490 , Newburgh ...
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... ports , but to every gentleman who is animated by liberal views , and a generous ambition to assume stations of high public trust . It would be exceedingly to the discredit of any person who should be called to take a share in the ...
... ports , but to every gentleman who is animated by liberal views , and a generous ambition to assume stations of high public trust . It would be exceedingly to the discredit of any person who should be called to take a share in the ...
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... ports . ( c ) This jurisdiction is confined to the ship ; and no one ship has a right to prohibit the approach of another at sea , or to draw round her a line of territorial jurisdiction , within which no other is at lib- erty to ...
... ports . ( c ) This jurisdiction is confined to the ship ; and no one ship has a right to prohibit the approach of another at sea , or to draw round her a line of territorial jurisdiction , within which no other is at lib- erty to ...
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... ports of the one country , in its own vessels , may , in like manner , and upon the same terms and conditions , be imported or exported in the vessels of the other coun- try . The same rule is contained in the treaties of the United ...
... ports of the one country , in its own vessels , may , in like manner , and upon the same terms and conditions , be imported or exported in the vessels of the other coun- try . The same rule is contained in the treaties of the United ...
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... ports of the upper states on the Rhine . Wheaton's Elements of International Law , 3d ed . 243-247 ; his History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America , New York , 1815 , 498-506 . Lawrence to and from the sea , and it has [ 38 ] ...
... ports of the upper states on the Rhine . Wheaton's Elements of International Law , 3d ed . 243-247 ; his History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America , New York , 1815 , 498-506 . Lawrence to and from the sea , and it has [ 38 ] ...
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Page 312 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 123 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 473 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; b*ut does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States ? We think it demonstrable that it does not.
Page 515 - To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 505 - So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page 485 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and which does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word among is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Page 328 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State.60 Fourth.
Page 373 - Courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State, within which such Circuit or District Courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 505 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 370 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.