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Dec 03 1915 (PC)

Abdurahim Haji Ismail Mithu Vs. Halimabai

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1916)18BOMLR635

..... they carry with them their personal law, and, if they are alleged to have become subject to a new local custom, this new custom must be affirmatively proved to have been adopted, but when such a family emigrate to another country, and, being themselves mahomedans, settle among mahomedans, the presumption that they have accepted the law of the people whom they have joined seems to their lordships to be one that should be much ..... all that has to be shown is that they have so acted as to raise the inference that they have cut themselves off from their old environments. ..... there seems to be no sufficient reason in what has been brought before the courts in this case for regarding the memons who have emigrated from cutch to mombasa as other than a number of individual mahomedans who have settled down among a people who are of their own religion. .....

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Feb 01 1892 (FN)

Boyd Vs. Nebraska Ex Rel. Thayer

Court : US Supreme Court

..... contrary, that the oaths he took and his action as a citizen entitled him to insist upon the benefit of his father's act, and placed him in the same category as his father would have occupied if he had emigrated to the territory of nebraska; that in short he was within the intent and meaning, effect and operation, of the acts of congress in relation to citizens of the territory, and was made a citizen of the united states and of the state of nebraska ..... court that the first clause of the fourteenth article was primarily intended to confer citizenship on the negro race, and secondly to give definitions of citizenship of the united states and citizenship of the states, and it recognized the distinction between citizenship of a state and citizenship of the united states by those definitions; that the privileges and immunities of citizens of the states embrace generally those fundamental civil rights for the security and establishment of which ..... a freehold of fifty acres of land in the district and citizenship of one of the states and residence in the district, or the like freehold and two years' residence in the district, said: "the word 'inhabitants' in the first section of this act must be taken lato sensu; it cannot be restrained so as to include citizens of the united states only, for other persons are afterwards called upon to vote. .....

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Jan 04 2013 (HC)

Additional Commissioner of Police Vs. Sushil Kumar and anr.

Court : Delhi

..... ) sh.r.k.kaushal from judicial custody on 16.7.05 after obtaining 3 days police custody remand from the court of acmm, delhi during the investigation of case fir no.671/04 u/s 420/120b ipc and 24 emigration act, ps karol bagh, delhi and he had taken the said accused along with 2 constables to dehradun for investigation where all of them stayed in room no.207 & 208 of hotel doon regency, 1-b, haridwar road, dehradun from 17.7.05 at 8:45 p.m. to 18.7.05 at 11.40 a.m. ..... ) r.k.kaushal became an accused in fir no.671/04 for offences punishable under section 420/120-b ipc read with section 24 of the emigration act. ..... sushil kumar not d-3073 that while posted in anti-forgery section of economic offences wing of delhi police as sub-inspector, he arrested major general (retd. ..... vide impugned order dated july 22, 2010 the central administrative tribunal, principal bench has allowed oa no.3482/2009 filed by the respondent holding the action to be an act of harassment and probably the result of some kind of pressure brought about by maj.gen. ..... ) r.k.kaushal in the police lock-up being an act of not following the proper procedures of investigation was not investigated when the first fact finding inquiry was ordered and thus would urge that at least said part of the chargesheet ought not to have ..... the above act on the part of inspr. .....

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Jan 15 2014 (HC)

M/S Sandal Travel Pvt. Ltd. Vs. Union of India and Another

Court : Punjab and Haryana

..... the concerned authorities of the union of india vide an order dated 25.3.2013 had cancelled the eligibility letter of the appellant- company and rejected the application for grant of registration certificate as a recruiting agency under the emigration act, 1983. ..... in matters of emigration, the issue is serious and problems permeating in the state are a matter of concern. ..... the finding is that the material aspect concealed was an fir lodged dated 13.7.2008 under the prevention of corruption act as well as the passport act against shri mukesh sharma. .....

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1851

United States Vs. Reid

Court : US Supreme Court

..... and the only known rule upon the subject which can be supposed to have been in the minds of the men who framed these acts of congress, was that which was then in force in the respective states, and which they were accustomed to see in daily and familiar practice in ..... but this could not be the common law as it existed at the time of the emigration of the colonists, for the constitution had carefully abrogated one of its most important provisions in relation to testimony which the ..... established the english colonies in this country, undoubtedly brought with them the common and statute laws of england, as they stood at the time of their emigration, so far as they were applicable to the situation and local circumstances of the colony. ..... think it may be found with sufficient certainty, not indeed in direct terms, but by necessary implication, in the acts of 1789 and 1790, establishing the courts of the united states, and providing for the punishment of certain offenses ..... but the 34th section of the judiciary act of 1789, declaring that the laws of the several states shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the united states, meant only to include civil cases at common law, and ..... eastern district of virginia, and on the points or questions on which the judges of said circuit court were opposed in opinion, and which were certified to this court for its opinion, agreeably to the act of congress in such case made and provided, and was argued by counsel. .....

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Feb 18 1924 (FN)

United States Ex Rel. Mensevich Vs. Tod

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 137 territory occupied and administered by a country, but not officially recognized as being a part of it, is to be deemed a part for the purposes of this section we have no occasion to consider, for, since the entry of the judgment below, the treaty of riga has so defined the eastern boundary of poland as to include grodno, and the united states has officially recognized this boundary ..... " he insists that the warrant for deportation is illegal because, prior to his emigration to the united states, he had been a resident of tychny, in the province of grodno, then a part of russia; that, at the time the warrant for deportation issued, grodno had not been recognized by the united states as a part of ..... in 1911, mensevich emigrated from russia to the united states. ..... in the provision of the immigration act, 20, for the deportation of aliens to the country whence they came, "country" means the page 264 u. s. ..... 1012, as amended by act june 5, 1920, c. ..... the immigration act feb. ..... act oct. .....

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Feb 24 1930 (FN)

White Vs. Sparkill Realty Corp.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... entry and possession of the lands by appellants and all alleged wrongful acts and proceedings preliminary thereto and in aid thereof had been consummated long before suit was brought, and preventive relief by injunction consequently had ceased to be appropriate. ..... 636 ; united states freehold land & emigration co. v. ..... in united states freehold land & emigration co. v. ..... section 274a of the judicial code, u.s.c. ..... section 59 authorizes the conservation department to enter upon and take possession of lands, etc. ..... section 761 confers upon the commissioners of the palisades interstate park power to acquire lands by entry and appropriation in the manner provided for in 59. ..... section 274a of the judicial code (u.s.c. ..... 509 the statement that, acting under the statutory provisions above set forth, the property in question was "appropriated by the people of the state of new york for public and state park purposes with the approval of the governor," and ..... the prayer is that the acts of the board and state officers, and the statutes of the state purporting to authorize them, be declared invalid as violating the fourteenth amendment and other provisions of the federal constitution, as well as a provision of the state constitution, ..... the board of commissioners, acting for the state, entered upon the lands and had been in the exclusive possession thereof for several months before the filing of the bill, effectively preventing appellees from using, enjoying, or occupying the .....

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1823

Kirk Vs. Smith Ex Dem. Penn

Court : US Supreme Court

..... and not to the purchase money, it has been supposed that the purchase money for lands within as well as without the manors has been abolished, and that the concluding words of the section, that the "same lands shall be held free and discharged therefrom, forever," apply to the purchase money of lands within the manors, as well as to the quit-rents of lands not within the manors ..... of the instrument itself, and in the case of a will, would be considered as an undisposed residue, for when we look through the whole act and find this 8th section to be the only one which purports to give anything to the proprietaries, their whole interest having been previously confiscated, and when in this section we find their individual interests in the soil of the state, whether acquired as other individuals or as proprietary appropriations, carefully designated, and even to ..... considerations draw a line of demarcation between the subjects of this act, infinitely more definite and rational than that marked out by trees or streams. ..... of the more pressing importance at the moment, because no means existed at the time of obtaining titles to ungranted lands, in consequence of which, as the 4th section recites, "multitudes of inhabitants were daily emigrating from the state. ..... the value of the lands must necessarily depend on the progress of settlement, it was obviously the interest of the great purchasers and adventurers, as well as of the proprietor, that he should open the country generally to emigrants. .....

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1870

St. Louis Vs. Ferry Company

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the act of 1789, section 2, [ footnote 10 ] and the act of 1792, section 3, [ footnote 11 ] require every vessel to be registered in the district to which she belongs, and the fourth section of the former act, and the third section of the latter, declares that her home port shall be that at or near which her owner ..... this is not altered by the facts that the boats were enrolled in pursuance of our navigation acts at the city; that the ferry company had an office there; that its president, vice-president, and other principal officers lived there; that the stockholders mainly resided there, and none in the ..... the case as found by the court below (to which it had been submitted under the act of march 3, 1865) [ footnote 1 ] was this: the ferry company was incorporated by the laws of illinois, and had its principal office in ..... that state, and from the inherent law of its nature could not emigrate or become a citizen elsewhere. ..... louis under the laws of the united states; that is to say, under the acts of 1789 and 1792, which require every vessel to be registered in the district to which she belongs, and declare that her home port shall be that at or near to which her owner ..... footnote 1 ] the reader who does not recall the provisions of this act may see then supra, towards the bottom of page 78 u. s. ..... has no faculty to emigrate. ..... counsel upon both sides entered into a written stipulation waiving a jury, and the cause was submitted to the court, pursuant to the act of congress of march 3, 1865. .....

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1834

Wheaton Vs. Peters

Court : US Supreme Court

..... to be examined and tried by a jury at the bar of said court upon this point, whether the said wheaton as author, or any other person as proprietor, had complied with the requisites prescribed by the third and fourth sections of the said act of congress passed 31 may, 1790, in regard to the volumes of wheaton's reports in the said bill mentioned or in regard to one or more of them in the following particulars, viz. ..... or the proprietor, after the publishing thereof, did deliver or cause to be delivered to the secretary of state of the united states a copy of the same, to be preserved in his office according to the provisions of the said third and fourth sections of the said act, and that such further proceedings be had therein as to law and justice may appertain and in conformity to the opinion of this court. ..... that this purchase was made by an arrangement with the said henry wheaton with the expectation of a renewal of the right of the said henry wheaton under the provisions of the said acts of congress, of which renewal he, the said robert donaldson, was to have the benefit until the first and second editions of the said volume which he, the said donaldson, was to publish should be sold. ..... but the existence of the common law in pennsylvania is not left to inference upon the general principles applicable to emigrants, before alluded to; there is positive legislation on the subject. ..... when the ancestors of the citizens of the united states emigrated to this page 33 u. s. .....

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