Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 18 |
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... pay all my just debts , if money can be made out of hired labor . Security debt I cannot pay . " Adding in a postscript : " All will be right betwixt me and my just creditors . " Held , that the debt having been discharged by the ...
... pay all my just debts , if money can be made out of hired labor . Security debt I cannot pay . " Adding in a postscript : " All will be right betwixt me and my just creditors . " Held , that the debt having been discharged by the ...
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... pay you for the meat that you had sent me , to enable me to make the little crop that I did make . The cash that I requested you to send me was , for myself and William Ferguson , to pay his hands for labor ; and one hundred and fifty ...
... pay you for the meat that you had sent me , to enable me to make the little crop that I did make . The cash that I requested you to send me was , for myself and William Ferguson , to pay his hands for labor ; and one hundred and fifty ...
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... payment of the debt . Thus , partial payments do not operate as a new promise to pay the residue of the debt . The payment of interest will not revive the liability to pay the principal , nor is the expression of an in- tention to pay ...
... payment of the debt . Thus , partial payments do not operate as a new promise to pay the residue of the debt . The payment of interest will not revive the liability to pay the principal , nor is the expression of an in- tention to pay ...
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... Pay me what thou owest , or that it is wrong for the debtor to resist such an attack . It is not unnatural that the creditor should think that payment of the debt was right , and that it was the only right in the case . It is equally ...
... Pay me what thou owest , or that it is wrong for the debtor to resist such an attack . It is not unnatural that the creditor should think that payment of the debt was right , and that it was the only right in the case . It is equally ...
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... payment of the bonds aforesaid ; and in addition to which control , and the obligations and liabilities of the company , Congress , not forbidding a State tax , reserves the right to add to , alter , amend , or repeal the charter . 3 ...
... payment of the bonds aforesaid ; and in addition to which control , and the obligations and liabilities of the company , Congress , not forbidding a State tax , reserves the right to add to , alter , amend , or repeal the charter . 3 ...
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Page 459 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 34 - The result is a conviction that the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 462 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from which they are taken...
Page 48 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this, — that the government of the union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Page 467 - Where a court has jurisdiction it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court. But if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void, and form no bar to a recovery sought even prior to a reversal in opposition to them.
Page 8 - And the better to accomplish the object of this act, namely, to promote the public interest and welfare by the construction of said railroad and telegraph line, and keeping the same in working order, and to secure to the government at all times (but particularly in time of war) the use and benefits of the same for postal, military and other purposes, Congress may, at any time, having due regard for the rights of said companies named herein, add to, alter, amend, or repeal this act.
Page 299 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade, of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons' burden, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas...
Page 553 - 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...
Page 21 - That the grants aforesaid are made upon condition that said company shall pay said bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops, and munitions of war, supplies, and public stores upon said railroad for the government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof...
Page 571 - That if a suit be commenced in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another state...