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..... states, and when such article should have become a part of the constitution of the united states, then that the states respectively should be declared entitled to representation in congress, and the preceding part of the act become inoperative, and that, until they were so admitted, any civil governments which might exist in them should be deemed provisional only, and subject to the paramount authority of the united states, at any ..... it may be said, perhaps with sufficient accuracy, that acts necessary to peace and good order among citizens, such for example, as acts sanctioning and protecting marriage and the domestic relations, governing the course of descents, regulating the conveyance and transfer of property, real and personal, and providing remedies for injuries to person and estate, and other similar acts, which would be valid if emanating from a lawful government must be regarded in general ..... the risk of a bad title, hoping, doubtless, that, through the action of the national government, or of the government of texas, it might be converted into a good one. ..... this answer, and after mentioning his getting with difficulty the payment of the four bonds: "that afterwards, and during the year 1866, chiles called upon him with the printed report of the first comptroller of the treasury, hon. r. w. ..... under it, delegates were elected from some sections of the state, whilst in others no ..... [ footnote 2/1 ] as the case is short, i hope to be excused for a full report of it as stated and .....
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..... it is argued that as the clause declaring that "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts" is associated in the same section of the constitution with the prohibition to "coin money, emit bills of credit," or "make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts," and as these all evidently ..... in the effort to get rid of the universal vote of mankind in favor of limitation acts and laws against gaming, usury, marriage, brokerage, buying and selling of offices, and many of the same description, we have heard it argued that as to limitation acts, the creditor has nothing to complain of, because time is allowed him of which, if he does not avail himself, it is his own neglect, and as to all others, there is ..... natural obligation of private contracts between individuals in society ceases and is converted into a civil obligation by the very act of surrendering the right and power of enforcing performance into the hands ..... the country where the contract is made, for it is the law which creates the obligation, and whenever, therefore, the lex loci provides for the dissolution of the contract in any prescribed mode, the parties are presumed to have ..... in force at any given time is but of short duration, and if the inhibition be of retrospective laws only, a very short lapse of time will remove every subject on which the act is forbidden to operate and make this provision of ..... the little slip of paper which lawyers know by the title of a bail piece. .....
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..... the witness concerning usage, the court observed that "if he was to be understood as stating that an assent to the formation or dissolution of a policy, if manifested according to the forms required by law, is as binding as the performance of the act agreed to be done, it is probable that the practice he alludes to is correct. ..... contrary, we are persuaded that the introduction of the rule itself would be attended with serious public mischiefs, and shake many titles and rights which have been consummated in entire good faith, and the confidence that no such written record was necessary to their ..... it was of a nature unexceptionable as conducing to proof of the issues joined if anything short of record proof were admissible as competent to establish the approval or acceptance of the bond ..... decided that such an entry is not necessary to the validity of the marriage, and that an erroneous entry will not vitiate it. ..... it proceeds to enact in the 7th section that the subscribers to the said bank of the united states, their successors and assigns, shall be and hereby are created a corporation and body politic by the name and style of " ..... the charter in the first section declares that a bank of the united states of america shall be established, with a capital of $35,000,000, of which $7,000,000 shall be subscribed by the united states, and the residue ..... the 8th section empowers the stockholders to choose directors for the management of their affairs, but does not require that the election shall .....
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..... non-election or informality of a city council, on the first monday in june last, it shall not be taken, construed, or adjudged, in any manner, to have operated as a dissolution of the said corporation, or to affect any of its rights, privileges, or laws passed previous to the second monday in june last, but the same are hereby declared to exist in full force. ..... keep, within the jail for washington county, at the expense of the city, all persons committed thereto under the sixth section of this act, until other arrangements be made by the corporation for the confinement of offenders, within the provisions of the said section; and in all cases where suit shall be brought before a justice of the peace, for the recovery of any ..... shall remain subject to the order of the original proprietor or proprietors, his or their heirs, or legal representatives; and the purchaser shall receive a title in fee simple to the said lot or lots, under the hand of the mayor, and seal of the corporation, which shall be deemed good and valid in law and equity. ..... and improbable, yet there are gradations of opposition to the laws, far short to those cases, which might have a baneful influence on the affairs of ..... of the state courts which may conflict with the constitution, laws, or treaties, of the united states without converting them into federal courts or converting the national into a state tribunal. ..... to provide for registering of births, deaths and marriages; to cause abstracts or minutes page 19 u. .....
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..... if, under the faith of existing laws, a contract of marriage be duly solemnized, or a marriage settlement be made (and marriage is always in law a valuable consideration for a contract), it is not easy to perceive why a dissolution of its obligations, without any default or assent of the parties, may not as well fall within the prohibition as ..... of the united states which was drawn in question in the court from whence this transcript has been sent is that part of the tenth section of the first article which declares that "no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or any law impairing the obligation ..... there refused to do, and has ever since neglected and refused to do, but converted the same to his own use, if the said trustees of dartmouth college could, after the passing of the said act of the 27th day of june, lawfully demand the same, and if the ..... favor of their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under, the united states, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said constitution, treaty, statute or commission. ..... the rights and authorities of the trustees and vitally affecting the interests and organization of dartmouth college under its old charter, it is difficult to conceive what acts, short of an unconditional repeal of the charter, could have that effect. .....
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..... the subsequent statute of this state, declaring aliens incapable of purchasing or holding lands in this state, does not affect the plaintiff's title, otherwise than by recognizing and enforcing it, for it hath a proviso that "the act shall not be construed to work a "forfeiture of any lands, which belonged to any subjects of the king of "great britain before the late war, or to prevent proprietors of such "lands, from selling and ..... he made his election before any new government was formed, and on the dissolution of the old one; and therefore never was a subject of the state ..... the state of new-jersey, by declaring him a subject, and punishing him as such, have also taken him as their subject; and by law have only done what is commonly produced by the act of the party; that is to say, created a kind of double allegiance; a matter which happens here every day in the case of the naturalized englishmen. ..... -and both this ordinance and this section of the act, contained in them nothing more than the principle acted on throughout the war, that americans could at no period legally act against this country, but were bound to take its part from the ..... the lessor of the plaintiff, was born in new jersey, where he resided from his birth until some time in the year 1777, when he removed to the city of philadelphia while or shortly before it was in the possession of the british troops. ..... , who ought not to owe allegiance even to the people themselves-in short, it could not exist in a free country. .....
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