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... Court of Washington , and all the offences of opium smuggling therein charged occurred prior to the filing of the ... Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , where the judgment of the District Court was affirmed . This action of ...
... Court of Washington , and all the offences of opium smuggling therein charged occurred prior to the filing of the ... Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , where the judgment of the District Court was affirmed . This action of ...
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... court , and the others were names placed therein by the proper officers just previous to the drawing of said venire ... Circuit Court , for the present February term thereof , be discharged and paid for their attendance . " On the 6th ...
... court , and the others were names placed therein by the proper officers just previous to the drawing of said venire ... Circuit Court , for the present February term thereof , be discharged and paid for their attendance . " On the 6th ...
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... and Rules Announced at ... United States. Supreme Court. Opinion of the Court . On June 28 , 1887 , action was brought by the heirs of Sam- uel P. Hudson in the Circuit Court of Calhoun County to recover the lands which had been sold ...
... and Rules Announced at ... United States. Supreme Court. Opinion of the Court . On June 28 , 1887 , action was brought by the heirs of Sam- uel P. Hudson in the Circuit Court of Calhoun County to recover the lands which had been sold ...
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... Court . courts of the United States , than statutes of limitations of actions , real and personal , as enacted by ... Circuit Court of the United States , which had held itself bound by those cases in this court , was reversed , because ...
... Court . courts of the United States , than statutes of limitations of actions , real and personal , as enacted by ... Circuit Court of the United States , which had held itself bound by those cases in this court , was reversed , because ...
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... Court . subsequently levying , through its officer , upon the property which , by the act of appointing the receiver ... Circuit Court ; M'Kim v . Voorhies , 7 Cranch , 279 , 281 ; while on the other hand , it was determined that the ...
... Court . subsequently levying , through its officer , upon the property which , by the act of appointing the receiver ... Circuit Court ; M'Kim v . Voorhies , 7 Cranch , 279 , 281 ; while on the other hand , it was determined that the ...
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Page 467 - Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 196, 6 L. ed. 23, 70, where he said: "We are now arrived at the inquiry, What is this power? It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 460 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 459 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from such common carriers full and complete information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created...
Page 467 - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations and among the several States is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the Constitution of the United States.
Page 476 - But no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said commission, or in obedience to its subpoena, or the subpoena of either of them, or in any such case or proceeding : Provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
Page 460 - Such attendance of witnesses, and the production of such documentary evidence, may be required from any place in the United States, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 461 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take such deposition to the opposite party or his attorney of record, as either may be nearest, which notice shall state the name of the witness and the time and place of the taking of his deposition.
Page 197 - ... a minor is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, his heirs or personal representatives may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death, or if such person be employed by another person who is responsible for his conduct, then also against such other person. In every action under this and the preceding section, such damages may be given as under all the circumstances of the case, may be just.
Page 468 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 30 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.