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..... not affect this case. on the 16th of february, 1857, the legislature passed an act amending the preceding act. the first section provides that where any person shall have died before the passage of the amended act leaving property which by the provisions of that act would have descended to any illegitimate child or children, such child or children shall be ..... deemed the owner of such property, "the same as if such act had been in force at the time of such death," ..... where such illegitimate child has conveyed the property by deed, duly executed, "or when the same would have descended by the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, and shall have been conveyed by deed by the person to whom the same would have descended, then such conveyances shall vest the same title .....
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..... bridges, should also visit and inspect the susquehanna, because there were similar officers in tioga county, where the susquehanna bridges were located. but the privilege against competition was applicable to both corporations, and, in the unsettled state of the country, necessary to the existence of both, for the legislature well knew that it ..... the junction of the streams. the susquehanna company, by the original charter, was to erect bridges over both the susquehanna and chenango rivers; but, with the amendments which were made in 1808, it was declared to exist for the sole purpose of building and maintaining a bridge over the susquehanna, while at the same ..... delaware river within two miles either above or below the bridges to be erected and maintained in pursuance of this act." this was undoubtedly a covenant with the delaware company that they should be free from competition within the prescribed limits. it is argued, because the east and west branches of the delaware are named, .....
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..... civil actions and suits in equity in a circuit court, brought there by original process &c.;, be reexamined, reversed or affirmed, in the supreme court" &c.; an amendment to this act, passed in 1803, [ footnote 2 ] enacts: "that from all final judgments or decrees rendered or to be rendered in any circuit court in any cases of equity, ..... , but that one meacham was; that the and had sold at an enormous sacrifice, the result of a fraudulent combination between burrows, meacham, and taylor, to prevent competition in the bidding. the court below having heard the case on its merits dismissed burrows' petition and ordered him to pay all the costs. from this, its action, ..... admiralty, and maritime jurisdiction, and of prize or no prize, an appeal . . . shall be allowed to the supreme court of the united states." with these acts in force, an execution duly issued from the circuit court for the district of north carolina on a judgment against one taylor, and under it real estate owned by him .....
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..... continued shall not be deemed any portion of the period of limitation, established in the said act, to which this is supplementary." intermediate between these acts was a third one, that of april 11, 1855, [ footnote 5 ] to amend an act entitled "an act defining page 82 u. s. 13 the time for commencing civil actions," passed april 22, ..... the legislature of california april 15, 1851, were thereby relinquished and granted to the city for the uses and purposes specified in the ordinance thereof, ratified by an act of the legislature of the state, approved on the 11th of march, 1858, excepting, however, from the relinquishment certain parcels not included in the grant to ..... 1850. this intermediate act provided that "no action for the recovery of real property or for the recovery of the possession thereof shall be maintained .....
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..... through whom the defendant claims), at and before the issuing of the certificates of sale, unlawfully combined and confederated with the defendant for the purpose of preventing competition at the sale of lands for taxes then to be held in the county. the court below, upon a final hearing, granted the prayer of the complainant ..... the sale of the lands conformably to the provisions of the statutes of the state, under which certificates the deeds and conveyances were respectively made. a subsequent amendment of the bill charges, sixthly, that at the time of the pretended assessments and levies, the lands were not subject to taxation, and seventhly that two ..... person shall be permitted to question the title under the deed without first showing . . . that all taxes due upon the property have been paid. " the whole act exhibits an intention of the legislature to enforce the payment of taxes by securing purchasers at tax sales in their purchases, and thus making it dangerous for owners of property .....
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..... legislatures, respectively, the power to alter, amend, and repeal charters of incorporation. in ..... charitable institution which was incorporated by an act of the legislature of louisiana approved april ..... of 1868, and the legislative act by virtue of which the said ..... it is distinctly expressed in the act of incorporation. indeed, a clearer ..... the lesser power to alter and amend. this law is contained in article ..... the institution, it would be an act outside of the objects and purposes ..... and personal, but by another act passed at the same session it ..... mentioned in the defendant's act of incorporation, viz., to the ..... april 20, 1853, by an act of the general assembly of the ..... that from and after the passage of this act, all the property, real and personal, ..... act shall be exempted, especially ..... act approved march 12, 1836, entitled, 'an act for the relief of the orphan boys' asylum of new orleans.'" the act ..... act of the legislature, if they deem it necessary or convenient to the public interest; provided that when an act .....
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..... so necessary and supreme that, deprived of their enjoyment in common with others, a freeman is not only branded as one inferior and infected, but, in the competitions of life, is robbed of some of the most essential means of existence, and all this solely because they belong to a particular race which the nation has ..... , or any place subject to their jurisdiction." its second section declares that "congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." this amendment was followed by the civil rights act of april 9, 1866, which, among other things, provided that "all persons born in the united states, and not subject to any foreign power ..... u. s. 629 ), it is clear that the law in question cannot be sustained by any grant of legislative power made to congress by the fourteenth amendment. that amendment prohibits the states from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws, and declares that congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the .....
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..... admitted that, under the pretense of providing for the public health or public morals, they can encroach upon rights which those amendments declare shall not be impaired. the act of louisiana required that the slaughtering of cattle and the preparation of animal food for market should be done outside of the ..... abolished." under the authority of these articles of the constitution the municipal authorities of the city of new orleans enacted ordinances which opened to general competition the right to build slaughterhouses, establish stocklandings, and engage in the business of butchering in that city under regulations established by those ordinances, but ..... and governors has engendered widespread and earnest hostility to it. communities, like individuals, resent even favors ungraciously bestowed. the appropriate mode of enforcing the amendment is, in my judgment, that which has been applied to other previously existing constitutional prohibitions, such as the one against a state passing page 111 .....
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..... regulating the transportation of passengers by steam vessels on such of the waters of the united states as are common highways of commerce, or are open to general or competitive navigation -- other than public vessels of this county, vessels of other countries, and canal boats propelled in whole or in part by steam -- provide that every ..... of passengers than its certificate of inspection permitted. before the trial in the district court, the owner of the vessel, a corporation which had intervened, filed an amended answer setting up in bar of the further prosecution of the suit a warrant in due form by the secretary of the treasury remitting to the appellee "all ..... . in that case -- which involved the right to a share in a forfeiture declared by statute -- the question related to the power of the secretary under that act, after final sentence of condemnation and judgment for the forfeiture accruing under the revenue laws, to remit the forfeiture. the court held that the power could be exercised .....
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..... city to be done at the establishment erected by that corporation -- prevented the state or the municipal government of the city, acting under her authority, from thereafter opening to general competition the right to maintain slaughter houses and livestock landings. the majority of the court in the slaughterhouse cases, having determined that ..... 's business notwithstanding its works had been established within the general locality designated in its charter, and consequently the legislature could at its discretion amend the charter of hyde park and remove the restriction upon its authority to abate nuisances or invest it with power to regulate or prohibit business ..... business or manufacturing corporation entitled to the privilege of consolidating with another company. in this interpretation of the statute we do not concur. the original and amended charters of the crescent city gas light company invested it with powers of an important character, page 115 u. s. 656 capable of being effectively .....
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