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..... 765; loccenius, lib. 3, ch. 7, n. 6; stypmannus, 417, n. 107; boulay paty cours de droit, com. tit. 1, sec. 2, vol. 1, 39, and tit. 4, sec. 14, vol. 1, 151-153; pardessus droit com., vol. 3, n. 631, 644, 660; pardessus col., vol. 2, 225, note. ..... a case of necessity. see valin's com., art. 19; emerigon's con. a la grope, ch. 4, sec. 11; vol. 2, 484 &c.; in another place, ch. 12, sec. 4, emerigon observes, "it matters little whether one has lent money or furnished materials." the older as well as ..... the french ordinance is the same. con. a la grope, ch. 4, sec. 11. in our law, if the master is the agent of the owners, his contracts are obligatory on them personally. when he acts on his own account, he does not create any obligation on them. but ..... money to a master knowing he has not need to borrow, he does not act in good faith, and the loan does not oblige the owner. valin, art. 19; emerigon, con. a la grope, ch. 4, sec. 8; and the older commentators cited by him. boulay paty cours de droit .....
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..... to equip and maintain the railroad and telegraph line mentioned, and was vested with all the powers and privileges necessary to carry into effect the purposes of the act. by the third section, a grant of land was made to the company. its language is: "that there be, and hereby is, granted to the northern pacific railroad company, ..... map, showing page 119 u. s. 56 the general features of the adjacent country and the places through or by which it will pass. that part of section three of said act which excepts from the grant lands reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and to which a preemption and other rights and claims have not attached, when a ..... hunting grounds. north carolina and virginia, to a great extent, paid their officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war by such grants, and extinguished the arrears due the army by similar means. it was one of the great resources that sustained the war, not only by these states but by others. the ultimate fee (encumbered with the .....
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..... power of the united states; indeed, that the two powers are entirely independent of each other. in pursuance of the power just recited from the 8th section of the first article of the constitution, congress passed the act of the 23d april, 1800, 2 stat. 45, providing rules for the government of the navy. the 17th article of that ..... of a sentence, which the court passed, the secretary of the navy approved, and which the president of the united states, as constitutional commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the united states, directed the marshal to execute by receiving the prisoner and convict, dynes, from the naval officer then having him in custody, to ..... dynes having been brought to washington as a prisoner by the direction of the secretary, that the president of the united states, as constitutional commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and in virtue of his page 61 u. s. 84 constitutional obligation that "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," violated no law .....
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..... within the interference of the surveys for three years or more before the commencement of this action, the defendants will not be entitled to the bar of the fifteenth section of the act of limitations." the verdict and judgment were for the plaintiff, and the defendants brought the case to this court by writ of error. mr. justice catron delivered the ..... court held in the case of mcilvane v. coxe's lessee, 4 cranch 216, that a citizen of new jersey did not forfeit his citizenship by joining the british army during our revolutionary war, and that his heirs took by descent, although their ancestor continued to reside abroad. nor did the expression in the deed that manso was a ..... was also proved by witnesses, after proof had been made to the court, that many of the documents of the empresa had been destroyed by the soldiers of the texas army during the revolutionary struggle. the court left it to the jury to determine whether the land lay in the empresa of martin de leon, and they so found. in .....
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..... same year, a similar license to manufacture wearing apparel &c.;, to jonathan trotter; and on the 1st july, 1848, one to trotter and w. rider & brother, for the manufacture of army and navy equipments, sheet rubber &c.; all these various licenses afterwards became consolidated in the union page 61 u. s. 218 india rubber company, the defendants in this suit, and ..... on is very general and unsatisfactory; and besides, it is too late to set up any such ground of defense after chaffee himself has carried the agreement into execution, and acted under it, receiving its benefits for some three years. and what is remarkable on this point, he is the chief witness to make out the alleged fraud. it has also .....
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..... of may, 1846." "[signed] pio pico" "[signed] jose matias moreno" this document was deposited, by the claimant, with edward canbey, assistant adjutant general of the army of the united states, on the 10th july, 1850, who at that time had charge at monterey of the government archives. these archives have since been transferred to ..... the person interested in the claim. the regulations for the colonization of the territories of the government of mexico, made 21st november, 1828, in pursuance of the act of the general congress, august 18, 1824, provided: 1st. that the governors of the territories should be empowered to grant vacant lands, among others, to private ..... the northern district of california syllabus the regulations for the colonization of the territories of the government of mexico, made 21st november, 1828, in pursuance of the act of the general congress, august 18, 1824, provided: 1st. that the governors of the territories should be empowered to grant vacant lands, among others, to .....
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..... s. 3 dall. 382 down to 19 u. s. 6 wheat. 450, comprising twelve distinct cases, page 62 u. s. 217 ruling, in totidem verbis that under the second section of the third article of the constitution, not only must the parties to suits in the federal courts be citizens and inhabitants of different states, but that this character must ..... action, is going a great way, as it is not very easy to explain in what mode a mere fiction or legal faculty can act vi et armis; yet a conceivable distinction may be taken between acts injurious in their effects and viewed as mere facts, and performed independently of or without motive, and for which the actor is bound to ..... be. natural persons are capable of the passions of love and hate; can contend in mortal combat by duel or otherwise; can go into the field in command of armies; can sit upon the bench of justice, or in the legislative or executive departments of the government. according to this transmutation theory, all these qualities are imparted to its .....
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..... cases, and insofar as it required the service to be performed by collectors only, that it was inexpedient. but to amount to a compliance with the second section of the act of 1842, it should have superadded to the repeal of the proviso an explicit declaration that the appropriation was intended as extra compensation to those officers, having ..... character and for a different place, and the amount of compensation regulated by law. this provision is introduced in the annual appropriation law for the support of the army and military academy. and although the words are general, and undoubtedly include officers in every branch of the public service, yet, from the general character and objects ..... , several cases came before the supreme court in which officers who were not named in the act of 1822, but who received a fixed salary as a clerk in a department, or a fixed compensation as an officer in the army, or in some other office, claimed the right to set off against the united states compensation .....
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..... by the acts of 1811, ch. 10, 1812, ch. 14, sec. 12, and that of may 6, 1812, ch. 77, sec. 2, it was provided that each private and noncommissioned officer who enlisted in the regular service for five years and was ..... to their pay, compared with that of commissioned officers. warrants were ordered to be issued by the secretary at war, subject to be located by the owner, in quarter sections, on lands within the indiana territory, surveyed by the united states at the time of the location. and three months additional pay was awarded to this description of troops. ..... of vigo in indiana. upon the trial, the evidence offered by the plaintiff was as follows: 1. evidence that one silas fosgit, who had been a canadian volunteer in the army of the united states in the last war with great britain, had died between the 28th of june, 1816, and the 29th day of june, 1823, and that his .....
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..... commandant, inspector general, and superior political chief of the territory, thus ordered, decreed, and signed, to which i certify." "figueroa" "agustin v. zamorano, sec'y " "in compliance with your excellency's _____ to this ayuntamiento, under your command in the decree of november 29th, 1833, to report whether the person ..... "provisionally authorized by the administration of the maritime custom-house of monterey for the years 1832 and 1833." "jose figueroa, general of brigade of the national armies of mexico, commander general, inspector, and superior political chief of upper california." "whereas juan jose gonzales, a mexican by birth, has, for his own ..... form." "marcelino escobar" "assisting witnesses:" "[signed] jose maria maldorado" "[signed] jose antonio romero" "on the same day, present juan jose gonzales, the foregoing act was made known to him, and having understood it, he said that he heard it, and that he presents citizens salvio pacheco, manuel larios, and felipe hernandez .....
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