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... Law and Practice of Bankruptcy Douglass , J. F. - The Law of Private Corporations of the State of Wash- ington ... Common Law Willoughby , W. W. - The American Constitutional System .... Young , J. S. - A Political and Constitutional ...
... Law and Practice of Bankruptcy Douglass , J. F. - The Law of Private Corporations of the State of Wash- ington ... Common Law Willoughby , W. W. - The American Constitutional System .... Young , J. S. - A Political and Constitutional ...
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... common law the distinction between crimes mala in se and mala prohibita was regarded , and although the keeping of gambling houses was an indictable offense , this distinction was never lost sight of . Murder is a crime repugnant to all ...
... common law the distinction between crimes mala in se and mala prohibita was regarded , and although the keeping of gambling houses was an indictable offense , this distinction was never lost sight of . Murder is a crime repugnant to all ...
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... common law , were lawful contracts . So far as the regulation of the subject of gambling has been guided by principle or rule , the view has been followed not to punish private or individual gambling , but to make professional gambling ...
... common law , were lawful contracts . So far as the regulation of the subject of gambling has been guided by principle or rule , the view has been followed not to punish private or individual gambling , but to make professional gambling ...
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... common law . The mischief sought to be remedied was not to sanction any of these acts , but to sternly keep them from public view . The persons guilty of committing these offenses were justly characterized as disor- derly persons and ...
... common law . The mischief sought to be remedied was not to sanction any of these acts , but to sternly keep them from public view . The persons guilty of committing these offenses were justly characterized as disor- derly persons and ...
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... law is not the best means of securing its administration . To be effective , the administration of criminal law must ... common law . If the Legislature should , preparatory to a new statute , deem it necessary to have full information ...
... law is not the best means of securing its administration . To be effective , the administration of criminal law must ... common law . If the Legislature should , preparatory to a new statute , deem it necessary to have full information ...
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Page 257 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 173 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Page 260 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 274 - I always thought that, when we should acquire Canada and Louisiana it would be proper to govern them as provinces, and allow them no voice in our councils.
Page 401 - That any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any State in this Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 367 - But to hold that such a characteristic is essential to due process of law, would be to deny every quality of the law but its age, and to render it incapable of progress or improvement. It would be to stamp upon our jurisprudence the unchangeableness attributed to the laws of the Medes and Persians.
Page 326 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 13 - ... nor shall any lottery or the sale of lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, or any other kind of gambling hereafter be authorized or allowed within this state ; and the legislature shall pass appropriate laws to prevent offenses against any of the provisions of this section.
Page 325 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of .the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Page 336 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.