United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volumen71U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 |
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Página 72
... vessel on the river - the simul- taneous shout of two hundred thousand men for the triumph of justice and law . The truth is , that no authority exists anywhere in the world for the doctrine of the Attorney - General . No judge or ...
... vessel on the river - the simul- taneous shout of two hundred thousand men for the triumph of justice and law . The truth is , that no authority exists anywhere in the world for the doctrine of the Attorney - General . No judge or ...
Página 153
... vessels navigating the Mississippi , for the purpose of raising a fund to be applied to the improvement of that navigation , was not a tax , or impost , or duty within the meaning of the act of Congress , or the ordinance from which it ...
... vessels navigating the Mississippi , for the purpose of raising a fund to be applied to the improvement of that navigation , was not a tax , or impost , or duty within the meaning of the act of Congress , or the ordinance from which it ...
Página 159
... vessels owned by him , and founded on libels of the same charaeter as the libel in this case , were pending in the same court . Mr. Carlisle , in support of the motion : The only fact stated in the return which can be alleged as cause ...
... vessels owned by him , and founded on libels of the same charaeter as the libel in this case , were pending in the same court . Mr. Carlisle , in support of the motion : The only fact stated in the return which can be alleged as cause ...
Página 161
... vessels of the same party are pending in the same court , under similar circumstances . If that court has no jurisdiction in the premises , the prohibition in the pres- ent case would have disposed of all the others . But if the ...
... vessels of the same party are pending in the same court , under similar circumstances . If that court has no jurisdiction in the premises , the prohibition in the pres- ent case would have disposed of all the others . But if the ...
Página 407
... vessels . By coopers , such timber is known as " coopers ' timber , ' and is considered and treated as raw material . In the light of these facts this timber must be held to be unmanufactured , raw material , as much so as any sawed ...
... vessels . By coopers , such timber is known as " coopers ' timber , ' and is considered and treated as raw material . In the light of these facts this timber must be held to be unmanufactured , raw material , as much so as any sawed ...
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Página 333 - I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Página 121 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great, exigencies of government.
Página 556 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common,law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it Fourth.
Página 363 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like.
Página 386 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Página 401 - The question remains whether the plaintiff has made out his title; for he must recover (if at all) upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of his adversaries.
Página 4 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.
Página 536 - The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the parties. A grant, in its own nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own grant.
Página 300 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Página 374 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...