Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volumen1;Volumen26

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Published for John Conrad and Company, 1828
 

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Página 727 - The Judges of the Superior Courts of Florida hold their offices for four years. These Courts, then, are not Constitutional Courts, in which the judicial power conferred by the Constitution on the general government can be deposited. They are incapable of receiving it. They are legislative Courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory...
Página 128 - 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.
Página 667 - A final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Página 547 - ... Perhaps the power of governing a Territory belonging to the United States which has not, by becoming a State, acquired the means of self-government, may result necessarily from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived the possession of it is unquestioned.
Página 517 - If it be ceded by the treaty the acquisition is confirmed, and the ceded territory becomes a part of the nation to which it is annexed; either on the terms stipulated in the treaty of cession, or on such as its new master shall impose.
Página ix - ... such presiding judge may make such rule or order for the safe-keeping, transporting, and return of such original papers as to him may seem proper ; and this court will receive and consider such original papers in connection with the transcript of the proceedings.
Página x - ... the party moving for such order, if defendant in error, shall be entitled to have the writ of error or appeal dismissed ; and if the party so moving shall be plaintiff...
Página 274 - The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion of the Court, on a case stated.
Página 97 - Ohio; | the | articles of agreement and cession, between the | United States and the State of Georgia; | and | such acts of Congress | as relate to the | Mississippi Territory.
Página 445 - States shall be first satisfied; and the priority hereby established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed.

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