Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 119F.F. Handell, 1908 |
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Page 525 - 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 599 - ... the party of the first part. The party of the second part...
Page 185 - It is the settled law of this country that the ownership of, and dominion and sovereignty over, lands covered by tide waters, within the limits of the several states, belong to the respective states within which they are found, with the consequent right to use or dispose of any portion thereof when that can be done without substantial impairment of the interest of the public in the waters, and subject always to the paramount right of Congress to control their navigation so far as may be necessary...
Page 247 - March 5, 1927, a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue commanding the building inspector and the Village of South Orange to issue her a building permit.
Page 525 - The act of 1789 contains a clear and authoritative declaration by the first Congress, that the nature of this subject is such that until Congress should find it necessary to exert its power, it should be left to the legislation of the states...
Page 843 - Property worth thousands to-day is worth nothing to-morrow; and that which would to-day sell for a thousand dollars as its fair value may, by the natural changes of a week or the energy and courage of desperate enterprise, in the same time be made to yield that much every day. The injustice, therefore, is obvious of permitting one holding the right to assert an ownership in such property to voluntarily await the event, and then decide, when, the danger which is over has been at the risk of another,...
Page 615 - Mississippi, against certain persons there, for the sum of $12,976, with interest at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, from the...
Page 363 - ... has moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that this court is without Jurisdiction of the case.
Page 277 - It Is therefore ordered that the Judgment appealed from be reversed., and It Is now ordered that there be Judgment In favor of the plaintiff...
Page 773 - When the words are not explicit the intention is to be collected from the context ; from the occasion and necessity of the law; from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed according to what is consonant with reason and good discretion.