The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Volume 6Freeman & Bolles, 1831 |
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... creditors of the owners . The right of preference may be lost by unreasonable delay . But his lien is not defeated by a bona fide sale before he has had an opportunity for enforcing it , and still less when the purchaser has knowledge ...
... creditors of the owners . The right of preference may be lost by unreasonable delay . But his lien is not defeated by a bona fide sale before he has had an opportunity for enforcing it , and still less when the purchaser has knowledge ...
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... creditors , except the seamen for their wages . The principle of reciprocal liens , of the cargo on the vessel , and the vessel on the cargo , is established by the Ordonnance de la marine of Lewis 14 , l . 3 , tit . 1 , art . 11 ; l ...
... creditors , except the seamen for their wages . The principle of reciprocal liens , of the cargo on the vessel , and the vessel on the cargo , is established by the Ordonnance de la marine of Lewis 14 , l . 3 , tit . 1 , art . 11 ; l ...
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... creditors each was bound in solido , to the full extent of the obligations contracted by the master , D. 14. 1 , 25 ... creditor any thing ; it is enough for them , says the Consulate , that they have lost their vessel . The ancient law ...
... creditors each was bound in solido , to the full extent of the obligations contracted by the master , D. 14. 1 , 25 ... creditor any thing ; it is enough for them , says the Consulate , that they have lost their vessel . The ancient law ...
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... creditor they may withdraw them- selves from their obligation , what is the natural consequence of the principle ? Is it not to render the ship herself liable to the creditor in specie ? So I understand the law , and such , as I ...
... creditor they may withdraw them- selves from their obligation , what is the natural consequence of the principle ? Is it not to render the ship herself liable to the creditor in specie ? So I understand the law , and such , as I ...
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... creditor to a particular fund for his remuneration , it cannot be so absurd as to prohibit him from making that fund ... creditors of his debtor . This privilege , so far from being dangerous and embarrassing to commerce , as it was ...
... creditor to a particular fund for his remuneration , it cannot be so absurd as to prohibit him from making that fund ... creditors of his debtor . This privilege , so far from being dangerous and embarrassing to commerce , as it was ...
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Page 240 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Page 57 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 262 - THAT all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 317 - ... it may well be doubted, whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States, can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations. They may, more correctly, perhaps, be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession when their right of possession ceases. Meanwhile, they are in a state or pupilage; their relation to the United States resembles...
Page 58 - The children of persons duly naturalized, under any of the laws of the United States, or who, previous to the passing of any law on that subject, by the Government of the United States...
Page 174 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
Page 317 - Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state in the sense in which that term is used in the constitution?
Page 442 - ... may be indicted and convicted either as an .accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 174 - That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits "thereof.
Page 271 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.