Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma State Bar Association, Volume 6The Association, 1912 - Bar associations List of members in each volume. |
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Page 125 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Page 164 - the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book"; since they placed the "liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.
Page 154 - It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it.
Page 155 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 126 - The United States under a grant specially to be made by the President of the US shall cause to be conveyed to the Choctaw Nation a tract of country west of the Mississippi River, in fee simple to them and their descendants, to inure to them while they shall exist as a nation and live on it...
Page 208 - The granting the license to sell Is an adjudication upon all the facts necessary to give jurisdiction, and whether they existed or not is wholly Immaterial, if no appeal Is taken. The rule is the same whether the law gives an appeal or not. If none is given from the final decree, it is conclusive on all whom it concerns.
Page 158 - The convention thought the concurrent jurisdiction preferable to that subordination ; and it is evident that it has at least the merit of reconciling an indefinite constitutional power of taxation in the Federal government with an adequate and independent power in the States to provide for their own necessities.
Page 197 - It shall be the duty of the executor or administrator making such sale. on or before the first day of the next term of the court...
Page 202 - The notice must state a day on or after which the sale will be made, and a place where offers or bids will be received. The day last referred to must be at least fifteen days from the first publication of notice; and the sale must not be made before that day, but must be made within six months thereafter.
Page 98 - The former verdict or other decision may be vacated and a new trial granted, on the application of the party aggrieved, for any of the following causes, materially affecting the substantial rights of such party: 1.