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..... the supreme court of the state of missouri syllabus the jurisdiction of this court, when a case is brought up from a state court under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act does not extend to questions of evidence ruled by that court unless it is sought to give such evidence effect for other purposes over which this court has ..... the powers of the supreme court are limited in cases coming up from the state courts, under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act, to questions of law, where the final judgment or decree draws in question the validity of a treaty or statute ..... the validity of their claims in a court or courts of justice, and the second section declared that if it should be found that any tract or tracts thus confirmed, or any part thereof, had been previously located by any other person or persons under any law of the united states or had been surveyed or sold by the united states, the present act should confer no title to such lands in opposition to the rights acquired by such location ..... of the recorder of land titles for missouri territory, as to claims entered under act of 13 june, 1812, and proven before 1 january, 1814, as provided by the act of 3 march, 1813, comprehending also the claims in the late district of arkansas, which, by act of 2 august, 1813, were permitted to be entered until 1 january, 1814, and proven until 1 july, 1814, together with the extensions of quantity provided by fourth section of act of 3 march, 1813, and confirmations under the .....
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..... gibson, having been examined separate and apart from their husbands, and acknowledged that they signed, sealed, and delivered the same as their act and deed, free of fears, threats, or compulsion of their said husbands. ..... it is altogether the act of the husbands, and they alone convey. .....
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..... it be of a slave, a certificate declaring the privileges or mortgages, which may be inscribed on the object of the contract, and to mention them in his act, under penalty of damages towards the party who may suffer by his neglect in that respect," "they, the said parties, declared, that, as tenants in common, they are fully aware of the state of things in relation ..... ." "and the notary undersigned having made known to the parties hereto article 3,328 of the new civil code of louisiana, which reads as follows:" " every notary who shall pass an act of sale, mortgage, or donation, of an immovable or slave, shall be bound to obtain from the office of mortgages of the place where the immovable is situated, or where the seller, debtor, or donor has his domicile, if ..... improvements of the property gained by alluvion, accessory to the property derived from the estate of claude francois girod, which was abandoned to nicholas girod by the heirs of bertrand gravier, by an act of compromise, executed on 29 march, 1823, and the expenses and cost paid by him in recovering the alluvion before mentioned, and including also improvements on the lot at the corner of st ..... amended bill, and a supplemental bill, and another amended bill, and then another amended ..... particular property except under particular restraints, on account of the rules of equity, is compendiously given by sir edward sugden, in his second section of purchases by trustees, agents &c .....
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..... tract or tracts confirmed as aforesaid, or any part thereof, had been previously located by any other person or persons under any law of the united states, or had been surveyed and sold by the united states, this act shall confer no title to such lands in opposition to the rights acquired by such location or purchase, but the individual or individuals whose claims are hereby confirmed shall be permitted to locate so much thereof as interferes with such location ..... or that of 1831 could deprive the plaintiff of her right, it is insisted she had a vested interest to the land confirmed when the united states acquired louisiana which is protected by treaty stipulation, and that such right no act of congress could defeat; that by the third article of the treaty of 1803, with france, the inhabitants of the ceded territory were to be incorporated into the union, to be admitted to the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the ..... land department had to construe this law with its exceptions; the matter was referred to the attorney general, and in september, 1842, he gave it as his opinion that the confirmations must yield to prior confirmations, school sections, ordinary sales prior to the act of july 4, 1836, &c. ..... the fifth section of the act declares "that any claim not brought before the district court within two years from the passing thereof shall be forever barred, both in law and equity, and that no other action at common law or .....
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..... on their part, gave in evidence a bill of exchange, drawn and dated at the treasury department of the united states, washington, 7 february, 1833, by the secretary of the treasury on the minister and secretary of state for the department of finance of the kingdom of france for 4,856,666 66/100 francs, payable at sight to the order of defendants' cashier ( prout bill); and the several endorsements thereon, (prout) ; and a writing of the same date with the said ..... it stated the substance of the treaty; the act of congress authorizing the secretary of the treasury to have the installments, as they became due, transferred to the united states, and that the secretary had drawn a "bill on the minister and secretary of state for the department of finance of the french government, payable at sight, for four millions eight hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six francs and sixty-six centimes ..... , 1832 ( prout same), together with an act of congress passed 13 july, 1832 (prout) , by the seventh section of which it was made the duty of the secretary of the treasury" "to cause the several installments, with the interest payable thereon, payable to the united states, in virtue of the said convention, to be received from the french ..... by the fifteenth section of its charter, the bank, when required by the secretary of the treasury, was bound "to give the necessary facilities for transferring the public funds from place to place within the united states or territories, without .....
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..... follows:" " the congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the indian tribes," "and are also repugnant to that clause of the tenth section of said constitution of the united states which provides as follows:" " no state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports and exports except what may be ..... as many persons to be common victuallers as they shall think the public good may require, and every such license shall contain such a specification or description, as is mentioned in the preceding section, of the street or other place, and of the building where the licensed person shall exercise his employment, and the license shall not protect him from the penalties provided in this chapter for ..... also the opinion and judgment of said supreme court of said state of rhode island and providence plantations, in the application and construction of said acts to the proof submitted in said cause, are void, the same being repugnant to that clause of the eight section of the constitution of the united states which provides" " that the congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and ..... "sovereign or transcendental property" ( 7th), and those which we class under the right of "eminent domain," are recognized in the fifth amendment to the constitution itself, and go far beyond this. ..... 205 -206, that a state may, in the execution of its police and health laws, make regulations .....
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..... mutual but inchoate rights, but still of rights founded on some valid consideration, such as courts can take notice of and enforce; that manumission by the laws of maryland is a mere gratuity, and until evidenced by all the acts or requisites the law prescribes, has no legal existence, and can have created no faculty in the contemplated object of that gratuity. ..... the chancellor, deeming himself so authorized by the third section of the act of 1785, decreed that the deed be admitted to record within six months from the date of his ..... but if the said deed ought to have been signed by said witnesses, they claim that this court, acting as a court of chancery, will permit the execution thereof to be proved now, and will decree the said deed to be put on ..... upon the construction of this section of the act of 1796 arose the questions presented to the court below, and now brought here for ..... the year of our lord eighteen hundred and forty-two, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace in and for said county and district, george miller, and acknowledged the foregoing deed or manumission to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, as witness my hand and seal. ..... the power of manumission by writing under seal was reenacted from previous statutes, enumerated, and repealed in the 31st section of the act of 1796. ..... 1, where they are collated, by their dates, down to the act of december 31, 1796, under which last mentioned statute the questions now before this court have .....
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..... ) 215 on certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the circuit court of the united states for the district of ohio syllabus under the fourth section of the act of 12 february, 1793, respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their master, on a charge for harboring and concealing fugitives from labor, the notice need not be in writing by the claimant or his ..... service of their master, on a charge for harboring and concealing fugitives from labor, the notice need not be in writing by the claimant or his agent, stating that such person is a fugitive from labor, under the third section of the above act, and served on the person harboring or concealing such fugitive, to make him liable to the penalty of five hundred dollars under the ..... agent, stating that such person is a fugitive from labor under the third section of the above act, and served on the person harboring or concealing such fugitive, to make him liable to the penalty of five hundred dollars under the .....
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..... principles and proceedings of the common law, which, by the mere force of implication in the terms "admiralty and maritime," overrides the seventh amendment of the constitution, and the important saving in the ninth section of the judiciary act; which by a like implication frees itself altogether from all restriction imposed, both by the second section of the third article of the constitution, and by the eleventh section of the judiciary act, with respect to controversies between citizens of the same state. ..... us, reflected either from the jurisprudence of the mother country, from the history of the colonial government, or the transactions of the general confederation, i am satisfied that the civil, admiralty, and maritime jurisdiction conferred by the second section of the third article of the constitution was the restricted jurisdiction known to be that of the english admiralty, insisted upon and contended for by the north american colonies, limited in matters of contract (seamen's wages excepted) to ..... omitted to observe even slight diligence and failed in the lowest degree of prudence to guard against fire, then they must be deemed in a court of justice to have been guilty of gross negligence, by which expression i mean that they acted reckless of consequences as respected the safety of the vessel and the lives and property on board and in their charge, that such conduct was contrary to common honesty, and that the master and owners were ..... & adm.law 206 note. ..... 269, 203-206. .....
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..... people of the state of illinois, represented in the general assembly, that the proviso to the seventh section of the act to which this is an amendment shall not be held to extend to any nonresident, unless such nonresident be under the age of twenty-one years, insane, or feme covert, and then in that case the rights of such persons shall be saved for the time limited by the different sections of said act after his or her becoming of full age, sane, or feme sole. ..... 784 entry, accrued, to maintain their action within ten years after their return, was expressly repealed by the first section of the act of january, 1814, which, by a subsequent clause in the third section of the same act, was to take effect at the expiration of six months from its passage, and it was not until more than a year after the passage of that act that this suit was brought by luckett in the circuit court. ..... -one years, insane, beyond the limits of this state, or feme covert, such person or persons may make such entry, or institute such action so that the same be done within such time as is within the different sections of this act limited after his or her becoming of full age, sane, feme sole, or coming within this state. ..... " the other act was passed on 11 february, 1837, and was as follows: "an act to amend an act entitled 'an act for the limitation of actions, and for avoiding vexatious law suits. .....
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