United States Reports, Supreme Court: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 7; Volume 97Little, Brown, 1879 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 604 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 740 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 19 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 338 - that the records and judicial proceedings of the Courts of any State, shall be proved or admitted in any other Court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the Court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the' judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, as the case may be, that...
Page 20 - States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States...
Page 518 - She constitutes a part of the military force of her nation ; acts under the immediate and direct command of the sovereign ; is employed by him in national objects. He has many and powerful motives for preventing those objects from being defeated by the interference of a foreign state. Such interference cannot take place without affecting his power and dignity.
Page 338 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 86 - The General Assembly shall not authorize any county, city, or town to become a stockholder in or to loan its credit to any company, association, or corporation, unless two-thirds of the qualified voters of such county, city, or town, at a regular or special election to be held therein, shall assent thereto.
Page 529 - As by the record thereof more fully and at large appears, which said judgment still remains in full force and effect, and not in the least reversed or made void.
Page 700 - ... remain a corporation, with all the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties, limitations, and restrictions, contained in said chapter, except as hereinafter provided.