United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 113Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... present case comes , the legislature of the Province in 1718 passed an act ( for the most part copied from the Massachusetts act of 1714 ) , authorizing the owners of mills to flow lands of others , paying damages assessed by a jury ...
... present case comes , the legislature of the Province in 1718 passed an act ( for the most part copied from the Massachusetts act of 1714 ) , authorizing the owners of mills to flow lands of others , paying damages assessed by a jury ...
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... present case , the fact that a statement was made of the plaintiff's case , without disclosing . in the bill of exceptions the facts supposed to constitute it , is referred to for the pur- pose of showing that the court below did not ...
... present case , the fact that a statement was made of the plaintiff's case , without disclosing . in the bill of exceptions the facts supposed to constitute it , is referred to for the pur- pose of showing that the court below did not ...
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... present state of the record , the indebtedness alleged to exist must be admitted to exist in fact , if it is possible to exist in law ; and this , we may affirm , even though the act of Congress Opinion of the , Court . pleaded and ...
... present state of the record , the indebtedness alleged to exist must be admitted to exist in fact , if it is possible to exist in law ; and this , we may affirm , even though the act of Congress Opinion of the , Court . pleaded and ...
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... present case , the main and ultimate question is whether the defendant is legally liable to repay the moneys sued for , and , as incidental to that , whether the act of Congress pleaded as a bar to the action is valid . The solution of ...
... present case , the main and ultimate question is whether the defendant is legally liable to repay the moneys sued for , and , as incidental to that , whether the act of Congress pleaded as a bar to the action is valid . The solution of ...
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... present interest . If it be doubt- ful , on the face of an instrument , whether a present demise or future letting was meant , the intention of the parties may be gathered from their conduct . Chapman v . Bluck , 4 Bing . N. C. 187 ...
... present interest . If it be doubt- ful , on the face of an instrument , whether a present demise or future letting was meant , the intention of the parties may be gathered from their conduct . Chapman v . Bluck , 4 Bing . N. C. 187 ...
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Page 692 - ... that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such state...
Page 720 - ... 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 court to the contrary notwithstanding,
Page 241 - ... that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.
Page 513 - Property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its true value.
Page 205 - And the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the State, as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Page 771 - States, be taxed higher than residents ; and that all the navigable waters within the said State shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said State as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor...
Page 719 - 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.
Page 692 - Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt the real property of associations from either State, county or municipal taxes, to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed...
Page 31 - But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate So as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 141 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.