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..... than forty years and claiming to hold the same in his or their own right, and which possession shall have been adverse, open, peaceable, notorious, and exclusive." "sec. 2. this act shall take effect at the end of one day from and after its approval by the governor." this action was commenced on the fourteenth of april, 1846, and, ..... the supreme court in the case referred to, which adjudication was understand to contain an established principle in the fundamental law of that state. the thirty-fourth section of the judiciary act, 1 stat. 92, as well as the rule of general jurisprudence, as to the operation of the lex loci upon titles to land, requires us to ..... every citizen the right of "acquiring, possessing, and enjoying property," page 55 u. s. 504 and that, by the true intent and meaning of this section, property cannot, by a mere act of the legislature, be taken from one man and vested in another directly; nor can it, by the retrospective operation of law, be indirectly transferred from .....
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..... city should wish to grant the said franchise to any railroad before the expiration of the lease, they reserved the power to do so. by the fifteenth section of the act incorporating the city, power is given to the city council to license and establish ferries across the mississippi river from the city of dubuque to the opposite shore ..... was authorized to keep a horse ferry boat instead of a steamboat. in 1847, the general assembly of the state of iowa passed an act to incorporate the city of dubuque, the fifteenth section of which enacted that the "city council shall have power to license and establish ferries across the mississippi river, from said city to the ..... at any place on the public landing of said town, which was set apart for public purposes by act of congress approved the 3d of july, 1836, for the term of twenty years from the passage of the act." the second section declared "that no court or board of county commissioners shall authorize any person (unless as herein provided .....
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..... . 509 government, was conclusive of boundary, was the question before the court. mr. justice catron, in delivering the opinion of the court, says, "by the first section of the act of 1812 congress confirmed the claim to commons adjoining and belonging to st. louis, with similar claims made by other towns. but no extent or boundaries were given to ..... -sac prairie lying together, that of guitard's being to the north of the others. the land sued for is within the survey directed by the first section of the act referred to. the defendant produced a patent from the united states for the land in dispute, but as the case was determined upon the title of the ..... chain of title to defendant. he also introduced map x, purporting to contain the outboundary lines of the surveyor general, at st. louis, projected under the first section of the act of the 13th of june, 1812, and it was proved that the land described in the declaration, but not the whole forty arpens claimed by plaintiff, lies within .....
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..... shall fail to sustain his action on the ground that in his specification or claim is embraced more than that of which he was the first inventor." the 7th section of the act of march 3, 1837, specially defines the meaning of the phrase "too broad" to be "when the patent claims more than that of which the patentee was the original ..... term of fourteen years from its date. the application of 1838 had a set of drawings annexed to the specification. the second set of drawings, required by the 6th section of the act of 1837, being for the purpose of annexation to the patent, they were entirely unnecessary till the patent issued, and are not required by law to accompany the application ..... regard to two great points of the case, i shall proceed to express my own. i. does the complainant's first patent come within the proviso of the 6th section of the act of 1839?, and should the term of fourteen years granted by it commence from the date of his patent here or from the date of his french patent in .....
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..... facts and law of this case, as i understand them, have led me to a different conclusion from that of a majority of the court. the twenty-fourth section of the act of 30 june, 1834, after making various provisions defining the limits of the indian country and imposing penalties for several offenses by white persons, provides "that for ..... the district of the state of arkansas should be vested with the same power and jurisdiction to punish crimes committed within the indian country designated in the 24th section of the act of 1834, and therein annexed to the territory of arkansas, as were vested in the courts of the united states for said territory before the same ..... decision is whether or not the circuit court for the eastern district is competent to try this indictment since change in the arrangements of the districts. by the 24th section of act of congress, june 30th, 1834, 4 stat. 733, it was provided that all that part of the indian country west of the mississippi river, bounded north .....
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..... appraisers reported them to be manufactures of cotton and flax. upon such goods, collector maxwell charged duties at the rate of 25 percent ad valorem, according to the 20th section of the act of 30 august, 1842, which enacted, ". . . and on all articles manufactured from two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates ..... and it provided that a duty of twenty percent ad valorem should be levied on all articles not therein provided for. yet this 20th section made a consistent part of that act. the 26th section of the act of 1842 provides "that the laws existing on first day of june, 1842, shall extend to and be in force for the collection ..... tautologous might turn out to be truly descriptive of different subjects. on the whole, our opinion is that there is no necessary repugnance between the act of 1846 and the 20th section of the act of 1842, and consequently the former did not repeal the latter, and the duty in question was rightly assessed. the judgment of the circuit .....
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..... all right to unlade in any part of the united states which had not been made a collection district with ports of entry or delivery. the ninety-second section of that act had four objects in view. first, to exclude foreign goods subject to the payment of duties from being brought into the united states, except in the localities ..... duties on foreign goods exported from any district in the united states otherwise than by sea, and in vessels less than thirty tons burden. the sixty-third section also of that act, directing when tonnage duties were to be paid, became as operative in california after its cession to the united states, as it was in any collection ..... legislation. mr. gallatin, in his report of the 25th of october, 1803, american state papers, finance, vol. 2, 48, suggested that it should be done. congress, however, did not do so until the act of the 24th of february, 1804, was passed, by the third section of which the repeal was effected. the postponement of the operation of the .....
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..... conveyed to the grantees. the first appeal was not taken within the time specified by law, and another appeal was granted 23 may, 1850. this appeal also was not acted upon for the reason assigned on page 86, that a compromise was pending between the parties. in the meantime, the case was docketed and dismissed under the rule of this ..... in that court was then pending there, and submits a decision of the supreme court of the state of florida, showing that by the decision of that court and the acts assembly of florida, the decree directing the partition of lands is not a final, but an interlocutory, decree. he also urges that he should not be charged with ..... which the suit is brought. this was an appeal from the district court of the united states for the northern district of alabama, exercising circuit court equity jurisdiction, under the act of congress of february 19, 1831, ch. 28, 4 stat. 444. the following is the statement contained in the brief of the counsel for the appellant, which is .....
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..... settled principle. see instructions to register and receiver, 13th april, 1835. 2d part birchard's comp. printed laws, instructions and opinions, page 757 &c.; "as the 3d section of the act of 26 may, 1824, then expressly declares that the list to be furnished by the recorder page 57 u. s. 468 'shall serve as a guide' to the ..... extent of each claim, so as to enable the surveyor general to distinguish the private from the vacant lots appertaining to the said towns and villages." "the third section of the said act of 1824 made it the duty of the recorder to issue a certificate of confirmation for each claim confirmed, but further declares as follows: " " and so ..... this case was brought here by writ of error to the supreme court of missouri, and presents questions alleged to be cognizable in this court under the 25th section of the judiciary act. the plaintiffs claimed a tract of land of six arpents in front, and forty back, lying adjoining to the village of carondelet, in missouri. it was .....
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..... . s. 30 a complete french grant, and a confirmation to d'auterieve, who was then in possession under it, of part of the land. now the first section of the act of 1824 provides that a person claiming lands by virtue of a french or spanish grant, concession, warrant, or order of survey, which might have been perfected into ..... the first place, the title, as derived from duvernay, if still a subsisting one in them, is a complete and perfect one, and consequently not within the first section of that act, which confers the jurisdiction upon this court. the place to litigate it is in page 56 u. s. 24 the local jurisdiction of the state by the common ..... of a title under the spanish government, independently of any previous grant -- hence an incomplete title, and therefore an appropriate case for examination by the district court under the act of 1844. this we think, cannot be denied, and shall therefore proceed to examine the claim to the tract in question, under this survey by andry. we have before .....
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