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..... to the plaintiff in error, shall be deemed to relate to the time of taking out the warrant not only in consequence of the compact, which secured all prior rights of virginia, and the act in confirmation of it, but also on account of the express saving of all prior rights in the grant to the plaintiff in error by the commonwealth ..... notwithstanding the objection as to the bed of the river, for as the law is general (such at least it appears to me) that where two countries, or two counties, border on a navigable river, the middle of the bed of the river is the boundary line, i see nothing in this case to prove it an exception, and consequently the ..... tract of land not exceeding four hundred acres upon any of the eastern waters, which hath not been surveyed or forfeited, according to the laws and rules of government in force at the time of making such entry, the surveyor of the county where such land lies shall after advertising legal notice thereof, proceed to survey the same accordingly, and .....
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..... the purchase then made, or about to be made, at the rate of 30l. per hundred acres;13 the proceedings being regulated, so as to secure impartiality in the treatment of applicants, by an act of the 8th of april 1785.14 from this operation of the land office, thus opened, the reservations were confined, 1st, to islands within ..... , nicolaas van staphorst, pieter stadnitski, christiaan van eeghen, hendrick vollenhoven, and rutgert jan schimmelpenninck, having made it appear to the board of property, that they were, by force of arms of the enemies of the united states, prevented from making such settlement on the herein after described tract of land, as is required by the 9th section of ..... states, at the rate of three-fourths of a page 4 u.s. 170, 194 dollar for every acre, contained in the triangular tract bordering on lake erie. [ footnote 22 ] the language of the act ought, then, to be expounded, in consistency with the policy, that gave it birth; and this can only by done, by considering the .....
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..... that the defendant constantly communicated with menendez during his stay in baltimore on the subject of the said purchases and shipments, and therein acted with his entire approbation and concurrence. that menendez urged the necessity of making the shipments of the tobacco speedily, even if the ..... contemplate that by making the further shipments in this mode, the property will go with more security, said longhy being a neutral subject, and should the vessel be met by french cruisers, page 7 u. s. 423 the cargoes would ..... go secure, as the property would not appear to be american. i also believe that nothing of this would affect the ..... to keep secret that the tobacco belonged to foreigners. there is unquestionably great force in this observation, and if the justification of barry rested solely on the power given him in this clause to act for the best, it would be doubtful how far it would avail him. .....
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..... cases pending in state tribunals. in legislating on this subject, congress, in the true spirit of the constitution, have proposed to secure to everyone the full benefit of the constitution without forcing any one necessarily into the courts of the united states. with this view, in one class of cases, they have not ..... on the one hand, the general government must cease to exist whenever it loses the power of protecting itself in the exercise of its constitutional powers. force, which acts upon the physical powers of man, or judicial process, which addresses itself to his moral principles or his fears, are the only means to which ..... where, previous to the constitution, state tribunals possessed jurisdiction independent of national authority that they can now constitutionally exercise a concurrent jurisdiction. congress, throughout the judicial act, and particularly in the 9th, 11th, and 13th sections, have legislated upon the supposition that, in all the cases to which the judicial powers of the .....
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..... , that additional fences against these dangers ought not to be omitted. very properly, therefore, has the convention added this constitutional bulwark in favor of personal security and private rights, and i am much deceived if they have not in so doing as faithfully consulted the genuine sentiments as the undoubted interests of their ..... a bankrupt law, provided such law does not impair the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the constitution, and provided there be no act of congress in force to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy conflicting with such law." this being a direct judgment of the court, overruling the first position assumed in ..... policy. the subject matter is entirely withdrawn from state authority and state legislation. but the succeeding prohibitions are of a different character; they relate to personal security and private rights, viz., or "pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." the subject matter of .....
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..... delivered over to the full enjoyment and use of kosciuszko armstrong, the son of general john armstrong, minister plenipotentiary of the said states at paris, for the security and performance whereof i do hereby instruct and authorize my only lawful executor in the united states, thomas jefferson, president thereof, to reserve, in trust for that ..... administration, with the will annexed are legal evidence of the will in all questions respecting personalty." this principle of the common law is supposed to be in force in maryland, from which this part of the district of columbia derives its jurisprudence, and the probate of wills of personalty to belong exclusively to the proper ..... of this district, and to set forth that fact in his bill. the treaty stipulations, the act of congress, and the principles of the law of france, which have been cited at the argument, attributing to them the full force which that argument supposes to establish the validity of the instrument, do not change the forum .....
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..... of repose. it is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten or be incapable of explanation by reason of the death or removal of witnesses. it has ..... of repose. it is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just debt from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands after the true state of the transaction may have been forgotten or be incapable of explanation by reason of the death or removal of witnesses. an exposition ..... extinct and gone; that there has been a period in which it had lost its legal use and validity. the act which revives it is what essentially constitutes its new being and is inseparable from it. it stands not by its original force, but by the new promise, which imparts vitality to it. proof of the latter is indispensable to raise the .....
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..... commissioners were authorized to loan these certificates to the citizens in the state, apportioning the amount among the several counties according to the population on mortgages or personal security. the act provides the means by which these certificates shall be paid, and the fact is admitted that at this time they are all redeemed by the state. the ..... caused a still more rapid depreciation, until the credit of the bills sunk so low as not to be current at any price. various statutes were passed to force their circulation, and sustain their value, but they proved ineffectual. for a time, creditors were compelled to receive these bills under the penalty of forfeiting their debt, ..... give it one characteristic of a circulating page 29 u. s. 444 medium. and another point of similitude, if not of identity, is the provision for forcing the receipt of it upon those to whom the state had incurred the obligation to pay money. the result is that these certificates are of a truly amphibious character .....
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..... acts therein mentioned." the indictment contained four counts; the questions on which the judges of the circuit court were divided were presented under the first and second. page 31 u. s. 353 the first count charged that thomas s. reyburn, the defendant, on 1 july 1828, at the district of maryland, within the territory and jurisdiction of the united states, with force ..... day and year aforesaid, at the district aforesaid, within the territory and jurisdiction of the united states and within the jurisdiction of this court, did with force and arms deliver a commission for a certain other vessel, called the jane, otherwise called the congresso, to the intent that such vessel might be ..... buenos ayrean colors, changed her name to that of the congresso, and performed a cruise under the command of the said john chase, exercising therein acts of hostility against the subjects and government of brazil. the united states further gave in evidence from the records of this court that the aforesaid john .....
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..... mentioned substances, or with any oxmuriatic salt, as aforesaid, or of suitable mixtures of any of the before-mentioned compounds," "and that the said letters patent continued in force for the period of fourteen years from the time of granting the same." "and the defendant, further to maintain the issue on his part, gave in evidence a ..... mentioned substances or with any oxmuriatic salt as aforesaid, or of suitable mixtures of any of the before-mentioned compounds," "and that the said letters patent continued in force for the period of fourteen years from and after granting of the same. (it is understood that the patent and specification of forsyth, may be at any time ..... , &c.;, was not known or used before such application." the sixth section of this act provides that a defendant, when prosecuted for a violation of a patent right, may give in evidence, under a notice, among other matters, "that the thing secured by patent was not originally discovered by the patentee, but had been in use, or .....
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