Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania: Held at the Seat of the Federal Government, Band 2Banks Law Publishing Company, 1906 |
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... verdict , an innocent person will * 49 ] suffer . The only question , therefore , is , whose right is the best ? Where the parties are equal in equity , the priority of right furnishes a fair rule for decision ; and the claim of Willing ...
... verdict , an innocent person will * 49 ] suffer . The only question , therefore , is , whose right is the best ? Where the parties are equal in equity , the priority of right furnishes a fair rule for decision ; and the claim of Willing ...
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... verdict ought to be for the defendants ; but if they enter- tain a contrary opinion , the nominal plaintiffs are entitled to recover . Verdict for the plaintiff . ( a ) INNIS V. MILLER . Competency of witness . One who expects to be ...
... verdict ought to be for the defendants ; but if they enter- tain a contrary opinion , the nominal plaintiffs are entitled to recover . Verdict for the plaintiff . ( a ) INNIS V. MILLER . Competency of witness . One who expects to be ...
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... verdict to pass against him , without opposition , relying on the point of law , that he was protected by the judg ment of the court at St. Eustatius . This point was , therefore , reserved for the consideration of the court . It is ...
... verdict to pass against him , without opposition , relying on the point of law , that he was protected by the judg ment of the court at St. Eustatius . This point was , therefore , reserved for the consideration of the court . It is ...
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... verdict , upon a point of summum jus , where it is not to attain the justice of the case . This has naturally led us to consider the equity , as well as the law , arising upon the case . Taking it up in a general view , there does not ...
... verdict , upon a point of summum jus , where it is not to attain the justice of the case . This has naturally led us to consider the equity , as well as the law , arising upon the case . Taking it up in a general view , there does not ...
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... verdict was against law . The motion for a new trial , therefore , is granted . ( a ) ( a ) In consequence of this decision , the cause was removed into the supreme court , where the principles contained in Judge SHIPPEN's opinion ...
... verdict was against law . The motion for a new trial , therefore , is granted . ( a ) ( a ) In consequence of this decision , the cause was removed into the supreme court , where the principles contained in Judge SHIPPEN's opinion ...
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Seite 282 - That if any person shall, within the limits of the United States, fit out and arm, or attempt to fit out and arm' or procure to be fitted out and armed, or shall knowingly be concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming, of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state...
Seite 316 - ... shall also have exclusive original cognizance of all seizures on land, or other waters than as aforesaid, made, and of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred, under the laws of the United States.
Seite 364 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Seite 360 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Seite 400 - WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION.
Seite 360 - ... or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to congress, and lodged among the acts of congress, for the security of the parties concerned...
Seite 282 - ... or property, of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district or people, with whom the United States are at peace, or shall issue or deliver a commission within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States...
Seite 387 - To the Constitution of the United States the term sovereign is totally unknown. There is but one place where it could have been used with propriety. But, even in that place it would not, perhaps, have comported with the delicacy of those who ordained and established that Constitution. They might have announced themselves "sovereign" people of the United States: But serenely conscious of the fact, they avoided the ostentatious declaration.
Seite 197 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Seite 263 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, 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 which they are taken.