Commentaries on American Law, Volumen1Little, Brown,, 1873 |
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... persons , having a public will , capable and free to do right and wrong , inasmuch as they are collections of indivi- duals , each of whom carries with him into the service of the community the same binding law of morality and religion ...
... persons , having a public will , capable and free to do right and wrong , inasmuch as they are collections of indivi- duals , each of whom carries with him into the service of the community the same binding law of morality and religion ...
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... persons and property as lawful prize . Their laws of war and peace were barbarous and deplo- rable . So little were mankind accustomed to regard the rights of persons or property , or to perceive the value and beauty of public order ...
... persons and property as lawful prize . Their laws of war and peace were barbarous and deplo- rable . So little were mankind accustomed to regard the rights of persons or property , or to perceive the value and beauty of public order ...
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... persons and property of merchants in cases of shipwreck , and against piracy , and against seizure and arrest upon the breaking out of war . Auxiliary treaties were tolerated , by which one nation was allowed to be an enemy to a certain ...
... persons and property of merchants in cases of shipwreck , and against piracy , and against seizure and arrest upon the breaking out of war . Auxiliary treaties were tolerated , by which one nation was allowed to be an enemy to a certain ...
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... persons and property were placed under the special protection and safeguard of the crown ; and the punishment of death , without hope of pardon , was pro- nounced against the guilty . ( a ) 1 The progress of moderation and humanity in ...
... persons and property were placed under the special protection and safeguard of the crown ; and the punishment of death , without hope of pardon , was pro- nounced against the guilty . ( a ) 1 The progress of moderation and humanity in ...
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... persons , who were friends to justice in private life , made no account of it in a whole nation , and did not consider it as applicable to rulers . He perceived a horrible licentiousness and cruelty in war , through- out the Christian ...
... persons , who were friends to justice in private life , made no account of it in a whole nation , and did not consider it as applicable to rulers . He perceived a horrible licentiousness and cruelty in war , through- out the Christian ...
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Página 312 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Página 123 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 473 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; b*ut does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States ? We think it demonstrable that it does not.
Página 515 - To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Página 505 - So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Página 485 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and which does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word among is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Página 328 - 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, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State.60 Fourth.
Página 373 - 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 the court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 505 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Página 370 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.