Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1822
..... parish a corporation by the name of the protestant episcopal church in the parish where they respectively resided. when, by the subsequent act of 1786, ch. 12, this act was repealed, there was provision made that all religious societies might, according to the rules of their sect, appoint from time to time, ..... who did "not profess himself a member of the protestant episcopal church, and actually contribute towards its support." although this act was repealed by the act of 1786, ch. 12, yet the same act saved the management of their property and regulation of their discipline, according to the rules of their own sect, to ..... parish church fell within the boundaries of alexandria, the embarrassment arising from this new state of things, might well create doubts as to the proper designation, and introduce the new appellation. whether this description was right or wrong is of no consequence, for if there has been no legal change of ..... as the alexandria church was the only worshipping church in the parish, nothing could be more natural than, in common parlance, and in parochial records, to designate the vestry as the vestry of the episcopal church of, page 22 u. s. 460 in, or at alexandria. it was so in a strict ..... authority of the general episcopal church of virginia, and by the canons of that church, made in conformity with the laws of virginia, and never repealed, the vestry were to be elected for the parish. it is not lightly to be presumed, therefore, that an election of a vestry was .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1822
..... is not denied; that the patent is good without it is the subject of inquiry. let this be decided by reference to the patent act. the third section of the patent act requires, as has been already stated, that the party "shall deliver a written description of his invention in such full, clear, and ..... about to make will have a very extensive, if not a disastrous bearing on many other patents for improvements and will in fact amount to a repeal of many of them, i have though proper to assign my reasons for dissenting from the opinion just delivered. in doing this, my remarks will ..... language or the ignorance of a patentee, that defective specifications would be made; it was also foreseen that an imperfect specification might be made from design, and with a view of deceiving the public. we accordingly find it provided by law that among other matters which the defendant may rely on ..... and gathering the meal and the raising and lowering of its arms by its motion to accommodate itself to the meal under it. but does this description designate the improvement or in what it consists? where shall we find the original hopperboy described, either as to its construction, operation, or use or by ..... gathering the meal, and the rising and lowering of its arm, by its motion to accommodate itself to the meal under it. but does this description designate the improvement or in what it consists? where shall we find the original hopperboy described either as to its construction, operation, or use or by reference .....
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