United States Reports, Supreme Court: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volumen92Banks Law Publishing, 1904 |
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... issued and delivered to each of the four companies special bonds of the State to the amount of $ 1,250,000 , in in- stalments of $ 100,000 , as often as any ten miles of its road was ready for placing the superstructure thereon , and an ...
... issued and delivered to each of the four companies special bonds of the State to the amount of $ 1,250,000 , in in- stalments of $ 100,000 , as often as any ten miles of its road was ready for placing the superstructure thereon , and an ...
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... issued to it , should be transferred to the treasurer of the State with the issue of the State bonds . The amendment de- clared , that , in case either company made default in the payment of the interest or principal of the bonds issued ...
... issued to it , should be transferred to the treasurer of the State with the issue of the State bonds . The amendment de- clared , that , in case either company made default in the payment of the interest or principal of the bonds issued ...
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... issued under certain restrictions . Nine hundred of these bonds were subsequently issued as therein pro- vided , and some of them were put in circulation . The present suit is brought by the surviving trustees to obtain a decree that ...
... issued under certain restrictions . Nine hundred of these bonds were subsequently issued as therein pro- vided , and some of them were put in circulation . The present suit is brought by the surviving trustees to obtain a decree that ...
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... issued under sect . 21 of its charter . The provision , that , in consideration of the loan , the company should construct its roads within a specified time , was intended as a penal pro- vision in terrorem , and not for the purpose of ...
... issued under sect . 21 of its charter . The provision , that , in consideration of the loan , the company should construct its roads within a specified time , was intended as a penal pro- vision in terrorem , and not for the purpose of ...
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... issued by the company to other creditors , it is unneces sary to determine . If defective or inoperative in either of these particulars , the objection cannot be raised by the company . Besides , if it could be considered as a matter of ...
... issued by the company to other creditors , it is unneces sary to determine . If defective or inoperative in either of these particulars , the objection cannot be raised by the company . Besides , if it could be considered as a matter of ...
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Página 23 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Página 10 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Página 797 - But it has been well settled that, when a plain official duty, requiring no exercise of discretion, is to be performed, and performance is refused, any person who will sustain personal injury by such refusal may have a mandamus to compel its performance ; and when such duty is threatened to be violated by some positive official act, any person who will sustain personal injury thereby, for which adequate compensation cannot be had at law, may have an injunction to prevent it.
Página 249 - A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such states, under a common constitution, which forms the distinct and greater political unit, which that Constitution designates as the United States, and makes of the people and states which compose it one people...
Página v - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 8 - the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, in the circuit and district courts shall conform, as near as may be, to 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.
Página 12 - ... and the said copies being entered as aforesaid, in such court of the United States, the cause shall there proceed in the same manner as if it had been brought there by original process.
Página 748 - That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or...
Página 14 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Página 703 - October 17, 1919. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. — The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] (16) [PUBLIC — No.