Two Centuries' Growth of American Law, 1701-1901 |
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... justice could be worked out under them , in some points , quite as well as under those of the common law of England . The clergy , also , were peculiarly influential in early American politics and legislation . They comprehended most of ...
... justice could be worked out under them , in some points , quite as well as under those of the common law of England . The clergy , also , were peculiarly influential in early American politics and legislation . They comprehended most of ...
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... Justice of the United States.3 Not , however , till independence had been actually accom- plished did the American lawyer , as a lawyer , come to occupy a large place in the public eye . He attained it then , in no small measure ...
... Justice of the United States.3 Not , however , till independence had been actually accom- plished did the American lawyer , as a lawyer , come to occupy a large place in the public eye . He attained it then , in no small measure ...
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... Justice Marshall . An attempt to meet the force of his reasoning was made by Chief Justice Gibson of Pennsylvania , in 1825 , in deciding a case in the Supreme Court of that State . It was one in which he dis- sented from his associates ...
... Justice Marshall . An attempt to meet the force of his reasoning was made by Chief Justice Gibson of Pennsylvania , in 1825 , in deciding a case in the Supreme Court of that State . It was one in which he dis- sented from his associates ...
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... justice ; they opportunists . Our litera- ture had its rise in Calvinistic theology . Theirs , so far as the church affected it , breathed a spirit less lofty , but also less unreal . It was comprehensive and tolerant , as became what ...
... justice ; they opportunists . Our litera- ture had its rise in Calvinistic theology . Theirs , so far as the church affected it , breathed a spirit less lofty , but also less unreal . It was comprehensive and tolerant , as became what ...
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... justice of the peace is as fully bound by his oath of office to support the Constitution of the United States as is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ; and it is not supported when a law that is inconsistent with it is upheld and ...
... justice of the peace is as fully bound by his oath of office to support the Constitution of the United States as is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ; and it is not supported when a law that is inconsistent with it is upheld and ...
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Page 242 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 500 - And I do hereby also make known, that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding, or abetting hostilities against any of the said powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles, which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations...
Page 25 - Council of revision with authority to examine every act of the National Legislature before it shall operate, & every act of a particular Legislature before a Negative thereon shall be final; and that the dissent of the said Council shall amount to a rejection, unless the Act of the National Legislature be again passed, or that of a particular Legislature be again negatived by of the members of each branch.
Page 242 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 279 - Charter of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Church of England, in America...
Page 243 - The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city of this State, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of existing debt, shall not in the aggregate exceed in any one year two per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of such county or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section in respect to county or city debt.
Page 175 - ... no devise in writing of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, shall be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the same by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his directions and consent...
Page 23 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 141 - suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law.
Page 351 - The Constitution of the United States provides that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.