United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 40Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1896 Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references. |
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Page 59
... jury that Chism was in Texas about the time of the transfer , December 2 , 1838 , whilst there was evidence that he returned to Kentucky in November , 1838. Besides , we think the charge of the court , as actually given to the jury ...
... jury that Chism was in Texas about the time of the transfer , December 2 , 1838 , whilst there was evidence that he returned to Kentucky in November , 1838. Besides , we think the charge of the court , as actually given to the jury ...
Page 61
... jury must find for the other side , exacts from the first party an undue degree of proof . Whatever , abstractly speaking , may be the merits of this objection , it is unavail able here . The charge objected to was only one of a number ...
... jury must find for the other side , exacts from the first party an undue degree of proof . Whatever , abstractly speaking , may be the merits of this objection , it is unavail able here . The charge objected to was only one of a number ...
Page 81
... jury , and on the judgment rendered upon the ver- dict , the case was taken to the supreme court of errors of Connecticut , in which court it was insisted that the court below had erred in in- structing the jury that the only question ...
... jury , and on the judgment rendered upon the ver- dict , the case was taken to the supreme court of errors of Connecticut , in which court it was insisted that the court below had erred in in- structing the jury that the only question ...
Page 88
... jury , and to decide whether the record of a conviction before a judge without a jury where the prisoner waived trial by jury according to statute was legitimate proof of a first offense , this court cannot review the action of that ...
... jury , and to decide whether the record of a conviction before a judge without a jury where the prisoner waived trial by jury according to statute was legitimate proof of a first offense , this court cannot review the action of that ...
Page 89
... jury trial , the accused might in open court expressly waive such trial by jury and request to be tried by the judge , in which case the trial should be by the judge , and the judgment and sentence should have the same force and effect ...
... jury trial , the accused might in open court expressly waive such trial by jury and request to be tried by the judge , in which case the trial should be by the judge , and the judgment and sentence should have the same force and effect ...
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Page 220 - In the patent office a written description of the same, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using It, in such full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which It appertains, or with which It is most nearly connected, to make, construct compound, and use the same...
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Page 354 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
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Page 302 - ... assigned ; without setting forth the bill, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any record or proceeding, either in law or equity, other than as aforesaid, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court, or person or persons, before whom the perjury was committed.
Page 214 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.