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..... to vary the magnetic energy of the transmitter core; but is wholly new with dolbear in all other respects, for the magnetic variations of the transmitter core must be converted into electric variations of many times greater electromotive force than any ever before utilized for any practical purpose, and must be generated in a line whose resistance is practically infinite ..... attracted by plate a in receiver i (being, in fact the plate b , piece r , and screw u , which are all of metal and in metallic contact), acts as one body in this receiver i; but, as will be clear, the back piece r , plate b , and screw u may be one single piece of metal, ..... further answering, this defendant says that it has, by purchase, and for a valuable consideration, acquired the right, title, and interest of said daniel drawbaugh in and to all his said inventions, discoveries, and improvements in electric speaking telephones, and ..... electric telegraphs, the dividing a conducting wire into sections by instruments which i have called 'echocyme,' which allow current signals to pass freely but stop wave signals, so that, whilst the wire is being used as a whole for through signals, the sections into which it is divided may each or all ..... full chords [ dreiklaenge ] of a piano on which the telephone rests, and that, in short, it reproduces just as well the tones of other instruments, such as the harmonica, clarinet, ..... make the instruments, in his catalogue published in 1866, enumerates, among the things he has for sale .....
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..... if a mother who is tutrix to her children wishes to marry again, she must, previous to the celebration of the marriage, apply to the judge in order to have a meeting of the family called for the purpose of deciding whether she shall remain tutrix. . . . ..... in lands according to the estimates put upon the portions which may be conveyed to each, this appearer makes this act of sale and donation unto the said julia morgan of the following lands, and for the amounts of the estimated value beyond the extinguishment of the debt aforesaid, to-wit ($67,495.70), this act is a donation of the lands hereinafter described unto the said julia morgan and her heirs forever: [then follows a description ..... but we have seen nothing to change the impression which we then had, especially as the donor expressly declared in the act itself that he intended it as a sale in part and a donation in part -- a sale to the extent of the amount due his said daughter and a donation as to the residue ..... $362,201.80 lands acquired since the dissolution of the community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... the most of the land was overflowed on melbourne in 1866, and witness don't know how much land was cultivated. ..... (7) that there is nothing in the sections of the civil code of louisiana, referred to in the opinion, which conflicts with these equitable conclusions. ..... morgan, deceased, and of getting in the title for the benefit of the heirs without paying any of the debts. ..... shortly after this sale, in march, 1858, the said oliver j .....
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..... section 1983 was patterned after 2 of the civil rights act of 1866, 14 stat. 27. ..... of the united states, with and subject to the same rights of appeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided in like cases in such courts, under the provisions of the act of the ninth of april, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled 'an act to protect all persons in the united states in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication'; and the other remedial laws of the united states which are in ..... in other legal usage, the word "color," as in "color of authority," "color of law," "color of office," "color of title," and "colorable," suggests a kind of holding out, and means "appearance, semblance, or simulacrum," but not necessarily the reality. ..... [ footnote 10 ] powell described the circumstances of his refusal as follows: "on this particular day, just shortly after 12 o'clock, i estimate there was 75 to 100 people in the store, and the lunch counter was pretty -- was pretty well to capacity there, full, and i was going up towards the front of the store in one of ..... 257, the following chapters of the general laws of mississippi, all enacted during february, march, and april, 1956, are cited under that heading: (1) chapter 241 (maximum ten-year penalty for incestuous or interracial marriage); (2) chapter 253 [now miss.code ann. ..... mere state inaction converted customary private discrimination into a denial of equal protection, which congress, under 1 and 5, had power to remedy .....
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..... the wichita and affiliated bands of indians, in the indian territory, whereby those indians did "cede, convey, transfer, relinquish, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever," to the united states "all their claim, title, and interest of every kind and character" to the land embraced in the following boundary: "commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the washita [wichita] river where the 98th meridian of west longitude ..... hereby acquired, in each township shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved, sections 16 and 36 for the use of the common schools, and sections 13 and 33 for university, agricultural college, normal schools and public buildings of the territory and future state of oklahoma, and in case either of said sections or parts thereof is lost to said territory by reason of allotment under this act or otherwise, the governor thereof is hereby authorized to locate other lands, not occupied, in quantity ..... . but in our judgment, the words of the treaty of 1866 with the choctaws and chickasaws so clearly import a cession of title without limitation as to the uses to which the ceded territory was to be devoted that the claim of those indians can derive no support from the transactions between the united states and the seminoles and creeks ..... . 523 in the event of a permanent dissolution of the union, the natural affections, education, institutions and interests of its people indissolubly bound them to the confederate states, reb.rec .....
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..... "[a]lthough they assert here due process rights as would-be plaintiffs, we think appellants' plight, because resort to the state courts is the only avenue to dissolution of their marriages, is akin to that of defendants faced with exclusion from the only forum effectively empowered to settle their disputes. ..... justice harlan, writing for the court, stressed state monopolization of the means for legally dissolving marriage, and identified the would-be indigent divorce plaintiff with any other action's impoverished defendant forced into court by the institution ..... has delegated to the district court supervision over the proceedings by which a petition for discharge is processed does not convert a statutory benefit into a constitutional right of access to a court. ..... period prior to the present act of 1898, the nation was without a federal bankruptcy law except for three short periods aggregating about 151/ years ..... section 14 (b)(2) of the bankruptcy act ..... separate sections of the ..... the expiration of the time fixed by the court for filing of objections, "the court shall discharge the bankrupt if no objection has been filed and if the filing fees required to be paid by this title have been paid in full. ..... ordered, the court may dismiss the proceeding for failure to pay costs as provided in section 59, sub. g. ..... section 40(c)(1), however, contains a proviso that, in cases of voluntary bankruptcy, all the fees "may be paid in installments, if so authorized by general order of the supreme ..... section ..... section .....
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..... the only historical sources identified by the majority that even appear to touch upon that specific matter consist of an 1866 newspaper editorial discussing the freedmen s bureau act, see ante , at 43, two quotations from that 1866 act s legislative history, see ante , at 43 44, and a 1980 state court opinion saying that in colonial times the same were used to defend the home as to maintain the militia, see ante , at ..... rather, it was that the type of weapon at issue was not eligible for second amendment protection: in the absence of any evidence tending to show that the possession or use of a [short-barreled shotgun] at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the second amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an ..... with respect to the second amendment, the court wrote: we think it clear that the sections under consideration, which only forbid bodies of men to associate together as military organizations, or to drill or parade with arms in cities and towns unless authorized by law, do not infringe the right of the people to keep and ..... the rejected pennsylvania proposal, which was later incorporated into a critique of the constitution titled the address and reasons of dissent of the pennsylvania minority of the convention of the state of pennsylvania to their constituents (1787), signed by a minority of the state s delegates (those who had voted against ratification of the constitution .....
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..... and it is furthermore adjudged that all and entire the personal property set out in this decree as having belonged to said late corporation of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints has, by reason of the dissolution of said corporation as aforesaid, on account of the failure or illegality of the trusts to which it was dedicated at its acquisition, and for which it had been used by said late corporation and by operation of law ..... as shall be proper to effectuate the transfer of the title to real property now held and used by said corporation for places of worship, and parsonages connected therewith, and burial grounds, and of the description mentioned in the proviso to section thirteen of this act and in section twenty-six of this act, to the respective trustees mentioned in section twenty-six of this act, and for the purposes of this section said court shall have all the powers of a court ..... the constitutional and original right, in common with all civil and religious communities, 'to worship god according to the dictates of conscience,' to reverence communion agreeably to the principles of truth, and to solemnize marriage compatible with the revelations of jesus christ for the security and full enjoyment of all blessings and privileges embodied in the religion of jesus christ free to all, it is also declared that such church does ..... that its emissaries are engaged in many countries in propagating this nefarious doctrine and urging its converts to join the community in utah. .....
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..... institutional reasons and because congress cannot anticipate and legislate with regard to every possible action the president may find it necessary to take or every possible situation in which he might act, it should come as no surprise that [s]uch failure of congress does not, especially in the areas of foreign policy and national security, imply congressional disapproval of action taken ..... and addresses; statements by members of the northern alliance regarding hamdi s surrender and capture; a list of the dates and locations of his capture and subsequent detentions; and the names and titles of the united states government officials who made the determinations that hamdi was an enemy combatant and that he should be moved to a naval brig. id . ..... or legislative power, whenever it sees proper, can authorize the crown, by suspending the habeas corpus act for a short and limited time, to imprison suspected persons without giving any reason for so doing . ..... section 4001(a) states that [n]o citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the united states except pursuant to an act ..... 2, 128 129 (1866), upheld verdicts for false ..... 2, 127 (1866) (martial law justified only by actual and present necessity as in a genuine invasion ..... 133 (1866) (chase ..... (1866); see ..... 2, 125 (1866), does not undermine our holding about the government s authority to seize enemy combatants, as we ..... 2 (1866), see ante, at 14 16, 17 20, and three cases decided by new york state courts in the wake of the war of 1812, see .....
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..... [ footnote 7 ] "that all revenues of whatever character accruing to the choctaw, chickasaw, cherokee, creek, and seminole tribes, whether before or after dissolution of the tribal governments, shall, after the approval hereof, be collected by an officer appointed by the secretary of the interior under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him; and he shall cause to be paid all lawful claims against ..... from 1858 to 1867, inclusive; that only $10,436.58 was actually expended for the purposes specified in the treaty, and that the balance ($61,563.42) was diverted and disbursed by the government prior to june 30, 1866, for the purpose of clothing and feeding refugee and destitute indians driven from their homes during the civil war because of their loyalty to the union. ..... was a consensual conversion of the government's obligation from payments to individuals to payments to the tribe, and section 19 of the curtis act is inapplicable to the $212,500 paid pursuant to this converted agreement. ..... 612, 645, 16, to negotiate with the creeks, cherokees, choctaws, chickasaws, and seminoles for the extinguishment of tribal titles to land, the allotment of their lands in severalty, and the division of their funds equally among the members of those ..... [ footnote 21 ] shortly before the payments in question were made, the commission to the five civilized tribes [ footnote 22 ] pointedly described in its annual reports to the secretary of the interior and congress the unbridled corruption of the .....
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..... opera house, tenpin alley, barber saloon or ball alley within this state on the sabbath day, commonly called sunday, and any person or persons, or body politic or corporate, who shall violate any provision of this section, or cause or knowingly permit the same to be violated by a person or persons in his, her or its employ shall be liable to indictment in any court of this state having criminal jurisdiction, and upon ..... shall be fined a sum of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, in the discretion of the court, for the first offense, and if convicted a second time for a violation of this section, the person or persons so offending shall be fined a sum not less than $50 nor more than $500, and be imprisoned for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days, in the discretion ..... but the court below found, and in this it is supported by the legislative history of the 1959 act, [ footnote 2/142 ] that the enactment providing severer penalties for these classes of sales was responsive to the appearance in the commonwealth, only shortly before the act's passage, of a new kind of large-scale mercantile enterprise which, absorbing without difficulty a four dollar a week fine, made a profitable ..... the title of the major series of sections of the ..... 517 the profitable weekend trade, thereby converting the sunday labor ban, in effect, into a "day of rest in seven" statute, ..... act for the effectual suppression of vice, and restraint and punishment of blasphemous, wicked, and dissolute ..... 1866 ..... 1866 ..... 1866 .....
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