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Wheaton Vs. Peters

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1834

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  1. U.S. 591 (1834) U.S. Supreme Court Wheaton v. Peters
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  2. U.S. 8 Pet. 591 591 (1834) Wheaton v. Peters
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  3. under the statute, and that notwithstanding the opinion of a majority of the judges in the great case of Miller v. Taylor
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  4. belongs to the author at common law was brought before the Court of King's Bench in the great case of Miller v. Taylor
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  5. the question, and it was dismissed. This question was brought before the House of Lords in the case of Donaldson v. Beckett
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  6. And in the case of University of Cambridge v. Pryer
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  7. not made a subject of judicial investigation in England until 1760, and no decision was given until the case of Miller v. Taylor
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  8. decisions in England on the construction of the statute of 8 Anne and other statutes. In the case of Beckford v. Hood
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  9. consequently the entry of the work at Stationers Hall was not made a question in the case. In the case of Blackwell v. Harper
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  10. Page 33 U. S. 667 The authority of this case is seriously questioned in the case of Newton v. Cowie
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  11. of the decision, as he decreed an injunction, without bygone profits. And Lord Alvanly, in the case of Harrison v. Hogg
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  12. been there agitated, it has been in connection with the operation of the statute upon this right. The case of Miller v. Taylor
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  13. recognized. The historical account of the recognition of the right is to be collected from the discussions in Miller v. Taylor
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  14. much more when received and approved by usage. And in this case of Miller v. Taylor
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  15. when the press became subject to license, the various ordinances and acts of Parliament referred to in Miller v. Taylor
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  16. are generally admitted to be summed up in all their force and strength by Mr. Justice Yeates in the case of Miller v. Taylor
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  17. hardly deserve a serious notice had it not been taken by a distinguished judge. Lord Mansfield, in the case of Miller v. Taylor
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  18. contrary intention is inscribed upon the first page of the book, which cannot escape notice. The case of Percival v. Phipps
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  19. the writer did not give the receiver authority to publish it, and this is the doctrine of Lord Hardwicke in Pope v. Carl
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  20. the subject of property. But property without the right to use it is empty sound, says Mr. Justice Aston in Miller v. Taylor
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  21. by that statute, is alone drawn in question under this branch of the case. And the decision in the case of Miller v. Taylor
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  22. to our acts of Congress, no such term or provision being used. A writ of error was brought in this case of Miller v. Taylor
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  23. but afterwards abandoned, and the law was considered settled, until called in question in Donaldson v. Beckett
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  24. of Lords in the year 1774, upon an appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery founded upon the judgment in Miller v. Taylor
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  25. it will be perceived that if Lord Mansfield had voted on this question, and in conformity with his opinion in Miller v. Taylor
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  26. on the ground that the penalties given by the statute, are not the only remedy that can be resorted to. In Miller v. Taylor
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  27. act gives a temporary additional security. It can stand upon no other foundation. And in the case of Beckford v. Hood
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  28. all the judges concurred. And Mr. Justice Grose Page 33 U. S. 680 observes that in the great case of Miller v. Taylor
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  29. was vested by the statute for the time limited, and he says that by the decision in the House of Lords of Donaldson v. Beckett
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  30. of Anne, the perpetual common law right of authors, was undisputed. That after that statute, in the case of Miller v. Taylor
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  31. right remained unaffected by the statute, which only gave a cumulative remedy. That the subsequent case of Donaldson v. Beckett
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  32. recognized by any judicial decision. The argument was urged with great earnestness by Mr. Justice Yeates in Miller v. Taylor
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  33. and it became the subject of a very serious litigation in the Court of King's Bench. It was decided in Miller v. Taylor
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  34. his original compositions. The court was not unanimous, and the subsequent decision of the House of Lords in Donaldson v. Beckett
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  35. time limited by the Statute of Anne, 2 Com. 375, second ed. It is here fully admitted that by the decision in Miller v. Taylor
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  36. publishing of his original composition. And if it was intended to intimate that the subsequent decision, in Donaldson v. Beckett
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  37. Colony of Pennsylvania was settled about the year 1682, at which period, and down to the time of the case of Miller v. Taylor
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  38. law right, notwithstanding the Statute of Anne passed in the year 1710. And the subsequent decision of Donaldson v. Beckett
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  39. and this question came under the consideration of the supreme court of that state in the case of Morris' Lessee v. Van
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  40. the law I think I have shown that, by the common law of England down at least to the decision in the case of Donaldson v. Beckett
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  41. a prerequisite than if it was in a distinct section, and so it was considered by Mr. Justice Washington in Ewer v. Coxe
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  42. of 1790. Mr. Justice Washington is fully supported in his construction of the act of 1790 by the case of Nichols v. Ruggles
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  43. been the natural place for the provision if it had been inserted in the original act. Judge Washington, in Ewer v. Coxe
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  44. statute. 1 Chitty's Pl. 144. This is a well settled principle, and fully recognized and adopted in the case of Almy v. Harris
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  45. prescribed, the remedy by injunction continues during that time. This is admitted by Mr. Justice Yeates in Miller v. Taylor
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  46. the injury done, contrary to law, under the statute. And the same doctrine is laid down by the whole court in Beckford v. Woood
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Wheaton v. Peters
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  48. of Miller v. Taylor
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  49. of Donaldson v. Beckett
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  50. of University of Cambridge v. Pryer
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