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MarlIn Vs. Lewallen

Court : US Supreme Court

..... in the absence of any restricting provision -- and there was none -- the indians naturally would regard that provision as comprehending the full title, and intended to effect its transmission to the persons who would be the heirs under the laws specially designated, and in the relative proportions ..... the agreements, taken together, embodied an elaborate plan for terminating the tribal relation and converting the tribal ownership into individual ownership, and also many incidental provisions controlling descent and distribution, fixing exemptions from taxation, preventing improvident alienation, and protecting the individual allottees and their ..... intestate november 29, 1904, while seized of the lands, and was survived by her husband, by issue of her marriage with him, and by issue of a former marriage, all of the issue being creeks and capable of inheriting the lands. ..... no doubt it was intended to extend the operation of the arkansas laws in various ways, but it fell far short of manifesting a purpose to make them effective as against special laws enacted by congress for particular indians, such as the agreements with ..... [ footnote 6 ] the full section read as follows: "the provisions of the act of congress approved march 1, 1901 ..... specially authorized to conduct negotiations with each of the tribes looking to the allotment of a part of its lands among its members, to some appropriate disposal of the remaining lands, and to further adjustments preparatory to the dissolution of the tribe. .....

Seminole Nation Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... [ 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 .....

Nebraska Vs. Wyoming

Court : US Supreme Court

..... and employees, and the state of wyoming, its officers, attorneys, agents and employees are hereby enjoined and restrained from diversion or use contrary to this apportionment, provided that, in the apportionment of water in this section, the flow for each day, until ascertainable, shall be assumed to be the same as that of the preceding day, as shown by the measurements and computations for that day, and provided further that, unless ..... the laws of any state or territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the secretary of the interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any state or of the federal government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate ..... to a consideration of the problems of this pivotal section shortly. ..... as the water rights are concerned, we think it is not proper to analogize this case to one where the united states acquires property within a state and asserts its title against the state, as well as others. ..... of federal water legislation applicable to the platte river basin is made beginning with the act of july 26, 1866, 14 stat. ..... asserts that it should be given a separate allocation of water even if it is not treated as the owner of unappropriated water, and hence the possessor of an unbroken chain of title to project water. .....

Dennis Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the substance of the indictment is that the defendants between april 1, 1945, and july 20, 1948, agreed to bring about the dissolution of a body known as the communist political association and to organize in its place the communist party of the united states; that the aim of the new party was "the overthrow and destruction of the government of the ..... the indictment alleged that section 2 of the smith act proscribes these acts, and that the conspiracy to take such action is a violation of section 3 of the act (18 u.s.c. ..... on this record, no one can say that petitioners and their converts are in such a strategic position as to have even the slightest chance of achieving their aims. ..... code indicates that the vast majority of the crimes designated by that title require, by express language, proof of the existence of a certain mental state, in words such as "knowingly," "maliciously," "willfully," "with the purpose of," "with intent to," or combinations or permutations of these and synonymous terms. ..... in days of trouble and confusion, when bread lines were long, when the unemployed walked the streets, when people were starving, the advocates of a short-cut by revolution might have a chance to gain adherents. ..... but even advocacy of violation, however reprehensible morally, is not a justification for denying free speech where the advocacy falls short of incitement and there is nothing to indicate that the advocacy would be immediately acted on. .....

Chinnathayi Alias Veeralakshmi Vs. Kulasekara Pandiya Naicker and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1952SC29; (1952)IMLJ292(SC); [1952]1SCR241

..... that in 1816 two brothers, then heirs, agreed that the elder should hold possession, and that the younger should accept a village, appropriated to him for maintenance in satisfaction of his claim of inherit; again, that in 1866, the fourth zamindar compromised a suit brought against him by his sister for her inheritance, on payment of a stipend to her, having already, in the claim of his brother, granted to him two villages of the estate ..... the claim made by the widow that the zamindari became by the arrangement of 1890 the separate property of kandasami was disallowed by the high court on the short ground that the documents exhibits p-17 and p-18 read along with the various statements made in 1889 cannot be read as changing the character of the estate from the that of an impartible estate belonging to ..... by the compromise made in kandasami's suit what had been given absolutely to the widow was converted into a life estate with the exception of the pannai lands and kandasami was acknowledged as the ..... does not lie in the mouth of sundara pandiya's descendants to challenge kamuluammal's absolute title to these lands while retaining absolute title in the village of dombacheri which under the same arrangement sundara pandiya got absolutely with ..... urged that kandasami had the power to alienate the zamindari or any part of it and by an act of alienation he could defeat the right of survivorship vesting in the other members to claim the zamindari on ..... he defrayed the marriage expenses of his .....

Trop Vs. Dulles

Court : US Supreme Court

..... martial and as the result of such conviction is dismissed or dishonorably discharged from the service of such military or naval forces: provided, that notwithstanding loss of nationality or citizenship or civil or political rights under the terms of this or previous acts by reason of desertion committed in time of war, restoration to active duty with such military or naval forces in time of war or the reenlistment or induction of such a person in time of war with permission of competent military or naval authority, prior ..... martial and as the result of such conviction is dismissed or dishonorably discharged from the service of such military or naval forces: provided, that notwithstanding loss of nationality or citizenship or civil or political rights under the terms of this or previous acts by reason of desertion committed in time of war, restoration to active duty with such military or naval forces in time of war or the reenlistment or induction of such a person in time of war with permission of competent military or naval authority, prior ..... his application was denied on the ground that, under the provisions of section 401(g) of the nationality act of 1940, as amended, [ footnote 1 ] he had lost his citizenship by reason of his conviction and dishonorable discharge for wartime ..... it is equally plain that the existence of the death penalty is not a license to the government to devise any punishment short of death within the limit of its imagination. ..... reilly, 1866, 53 penn ..... (1866). .....

The State of Madras Vs. Gannon Dunkerley and Co., (Madras) Ltd.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC560; (1958)IIMLJ66(SC); [1959]1SCR379; [1958]9STC353(SC)

..... but apart from the fact that these observations were obiter, this court has consistently held that though the word 'sale' in its popular sense is not restricted to passing of title, and has a wider connotation as meaning the transaction of sale, and that in that sense an agreement to sell would, as one of the essential ingredients of sale, furnish sufficient nexus for ..... it was not, lord simonds observed that the courts contemplated by section 96 of the act were those which were generally understood to be courts at the time when the constitution act was enacted, that labour courts were then unknown, and that, therefore, the reference to judges and courts in section 96 could not be interpreted as comprehending a tribunal of the ..... was to select materials, make them into parts of an engine, carry them to a particular place, and put them together, and fix part to the soil, and so convert them into a fixed engine on the land itself, so as to pump the water out of a mine.' 61. ..... 507, an act of parliament had provided for the dissolution of two companies under a scheme of amalgamation with a third company under which the shareholders were to be given in exchange for their shares in the dissolved companies, in the case of ..... the short answer to this contention is that the madras general sales tax act is a law relating not to sale of goods, but to tax on sale of goods, and that it is not one of the matters enumerated in the concurrent list or over which the dominion legislature is competent ..... 1866 .....

Mcgowan Vs. Maryland

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 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 .....

Communist Party Vs. Sacb

Court : US Supreme Court

..... among these were the league of nations; the russo-finnish war, 1939; the hitler-stalin non-aggression pact, 1939; attitude toward world war ii before and after the german attack on the soviet union; dissolution of the communist international, 1943; west germany; the italian election of 1948; north atlantic pact; control of atomic energy; election of yugoslavia to the united nations security council, 1949; cardinal mindszenty ..... . i am compelled to say in closing that i fear that all the arguments and urgings the communists and their sympathizers can use in trying to convert americans to an ideology wholly foreign to our habits and our instincts are far less dangerous to the security of this nation than laws which embark us upon a policy of repression by the outlawry of ..... section 13(e) of the act provides that, "in determining whether any organization is a 'communist action organization,' the board shall take into consideration --" "(1) the extent to which its policies are formulated and carried out and its activities performed, pursuant to directives or to effectuate the policies of the foreign government or foreign organization in which is vested, or under the domination or control of which is exercised, the direction and control of the world communist movement referred to in section 2 of this title; ..... same time, budenz was instructed to reprint the duclos article in the daily worker; shortly thereafter, the communist political association was reconstituted as the communist party u.s.a .....

Baker Vs. Carr

Court : US Supreme Court

..... impracticable to bring them all before the court; that there is a common question of law involved, namely, the constitutionality of tennessee laws set forth in the tennessee code annotated, section 3-101 through section 3-109, inclusive; that common relief is sought against all members of said election commissions in their official capacities, it being the duties of the aforesaid county election commissioners, within ..... mccanless, is the duly appointed and acting attorney general of the state of tennessee, with his office in nashville in said state, and is charged with the duty of advising the officers of the state upon the law, and is made by section 23-1107 of the tennessee code annotated a necessary party defendant in any declaratory judgment action where the constitutionality of statutes of the state of tennessee ..... footnote 37 ] similarly, recognition of belligerency abroad is an executive responsibility, but if the executive proclamations fall short of an explicit answer, a court may construe them seeking, for example, to determine whether the situation ..... bases of local legislative apportionment is an examination of the apportionment provisions of the thirty-three states which ratified the amendment between 1866 and 1870, at their respective times of ratification. ..... counties of the state of tennessee, the organization and supervision of the biennial elections as provided by the statutes of tennessee, chapter 9 of title 2 of the tennessee code annotated, sections 2-901, et seq. .....