OF CASES ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. February Term, 1821. BY HENRY WHEATON, Counsellor at Law. VOLUME VI. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY R. DONALDSON, no. 45 JOHN-STREET. C. S. Van Winkle, Printer, 101 Greenwich-street. 1821.. BODLEIAN 23 APR 1963 LIBR Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the sixteenth of July, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, HENRY WHEATON, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words and figures following, to wit: "Reports of Cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. February Term, 1821. By Henry Wheaton, Counsellor at Law. Volume VI." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS. The Hon. JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice. The Hon. BUSHROD WASHINGTON, Associate Justice. The Hon. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Associate Justice. The Hon. BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, Associate Jus tice. The Hon. THOMAS TODD, Associate Justice. WILLIAM WIRT, Esq. Attorney-General. Mem. Mr. Justice WASHINGTON was absent the whole of this term, from indisposition. GENERAL RULES. February Term, 1821. RULE XXX. AFTER the present term, no cause standing for argument will be heard by the Court, until the parties shall have furnished the Court with a printed brief or abstract of the cause, containing the substance of all the material pleadings, facts, and documents, on which the parties rely, and the points of law and fact intended to be presented at the argu ment. RULE XXXI. Whenever pending a writ of error, or appeal in this Court, either party shall die, the proper representatives in the personalty or realty of the deceased party, according to the nature of the case, may voluntarily come in and be admitted parties to the suit, and thereupon the cause shall be heard and determined, as in other cases; and if such representatives shall b |