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Ross Vs. Day

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the title to certain lands in the cherokee nation (a tract of 20 acres and a separate tract of 10 acres within the same quarter-section) that were allotted to defendant in error under the act of july 1, 1902 (32 stat. 716, c. 1375). the decision of the oklahoma supreme court in favor of the latter is reported ..... right to the possession of the improved lands, which right might be transferred to another citizen by a sale of the improvements. the secretary evidently construed 11 of the act of congress of july 1, 1902, as recognizing and confirming this right. but he held that no valuable interest was acquired by plaintiffs under the purchase from keeler, ..... 1, 1904, depended not upon whether it was sufficient to give notice to contestee, but whether it was sufficient to constitute an improvement within the meaning of the act of congress. and so the whole controversy in effect depended upon whether the allotment to defendant was in accord with the ownership of the actual improvements upon the land .....

Lapina Vs. Williams

Court : US Supreme Court

..... she shall have entered the united states, shall be deemed to be unlawfully within the united states, and shall be deported as provided by sections twenty and twenty-one of this act." "sec. 20. that any alien who shall enter the united states in violation of law, . . . shall, upon the warrant of the ..... or characteristics brought them within the descriptive clauses, irrespective of any qualification arising out of a previous residence or domicil in this country. the excluding section, as found in the act of 1907, contains in its own language the clearest answer to the entire argument for the petitioner. it reads as follows (34 stat. 898, ..... and returned to the country whence he came, as provided by section twenty of this act. . . ." [ footnote 2 ] i mmigration acts rev.stat. title, "immigration," 2158-2164. "an act supplementary to the acts in relation to immigration," approved march 3, 1875 (18 stat. 477, c. 141). "an act to regulate immigration," approved august 3, 1882 (22 stat. 214 .....

Faiyaz HusaIn and Vs. Khurshed Husain

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : (1914)ILR36All289

..... emancipates or makes a gift and himself delivers possession it is called munajjaza. the whole of this is munajjaza gift. then it will be further observed if the gratuitous act takes place in a state of health or a disease which is not dangerous it will be enforceable in respect of his entire estate. but if it takes place ..... ' the most important and most erudite of all his books (according to mr. ameer ali, vol. 1, page 30), says as follows:i have already mentioned that a gratuitous act is of two kinds, munajjaza (of immediate operation) and muakhkhara (deferred till death). the muakhkhara is one in which a man makes a bequest for the emancipation of a slave ..... 'the lawyers are unanimous that a disposition by a sick person exceeding one-third of his property is invalid if this disposition is not to have immediate operation. if the act is to have immediate operation, as manumission, gift and connivance at loss in contracts of exchange, there are among us two opinions, one of which is that it is .....

Khulna Loan Co. Limited Vs. Jahir Goldar and anr.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1914Cal687,24Ind.Cas.209

..... officers of the company on its behalf in a duly authorised manner, but because the company is estopped, so far as the plaintiffs are concerned, to repudiate the act of the managing director. under these circumstances, it has been urged on behalf of the company that the court, in its discretion, should refuse specific performance. ..... would clearly fail in a suit for rescission.4. as regards the second question, it is necessary to state that, as has now transpired, the managing director acted only in concurrence with the two secretaries and without the authority of the entire body of directors. while the negotiations with the plaintiffs were in progress, the tenants ..... before he settled the terms with them, had taken [the necessary antecedent steps under the constitution of the company. they would be entitled to presume that he had acted regularly within the scope of his authority and in the manner provided in the articles of association. bargate v. shortridge (1855) 5 h.l.c. 297 : 101 .....

American Iron and Steel Co. Vs. Seaboard Air Line

Court : US Supreme Court

..... claim, to which report in that particular claimant excepted." "subsequently, on the petition of the railway company, a decree was entered approving 'a plan of adjustment' of the finances of the company, and providing for turning back to the company its property, and for ending the receivership at a certain time. from time to time during the receivership and ..... low rate, and hence inequality would result in the payment of interest which accrued during the delay incident to collecting and distributing the funds. as this delay was the act of the law, no one should thereby gain an advantage of suffer a loss. for that and like reasons, in case funds are not sufficient to pay claims of ..... allowed as damages, interest can only be charged against the railway because of delay due to its own fault, while here, the failure to pay was due to the act of the law in taking its property into custody and operating the same by receivers in order to prevent the disruption of a great public utility. and it is .....

United States Vs. Birdsall

Court : US Supreme Court

..... not fall within the condemnation of the statute on which the indictment is based, it necessarily construes that statute, and this court has jurisdiction under the criminal appeals act of 1907. sections 39 and 117, criminal code, 35 stat. 1109, defining and punishing the giving and accepting of bribes, cover every action within the range of official duty. ..... . . . any fraud . . . on the united states, or to induce him to do or omit to do any act in violation of his lawful duty." every action that is within the range of official duty comes within the purview of these sections. there was thus a legislative basis ( united states v. george, 228 u. s. 14 , 228 u. s. 22 ..... it is not necessary in order to constitute an act of an officer of the united states official action that it be prescribed by statute; it is sufficient if it .....

O'Sullivan Vs. Felix

Court : US Supreme Court

..... verbal or written, and those for damages caused by animals, or resulting from offenses or quasi -offenses." and the prescription runs from the day the damage is sustained. section 3537. that the action depends upon or arises under the laws of the united states does not preclude the application of the statute of limitations of the state is established ..... another of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws, and the persons conspiring to or cause to be done any act in furtherance of the object of the conspiracy whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived of having or exercising any right or privilege as a ..... his legal representatives in an action on the case. any number of defendants may be joined in the action. if the death of any party be caused by such act or neglect, the legal representatives of the deceased shall have an action therefor, and may recover not exceeding $5,000 for the benefit of the widow of the deceased .....

Carondelet Canal and Navigation Co. Vs. Louisiana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of said property as herein provided, then this corporation shall be in existence for twenty-five years from and after the expiration of the term in this section mentioned aforesaid, and at the end of such second term of twenty-five years, the said property shall become absolutely the property of the state of louisiana ..... contract clause of the federal constitution, and the act of 1906 repealing the act of 1858 impaired the contract obligation of the latter. the natural and grammatical use of a relative pronoun is to put it in close relation ..... on contract rights which determines the question of constitutionality. the repeal of a law which constitutes a legislative contract is an impairment of its obligation. the acts of 1857 and 1858 of the legislature of louisiana did grant certain contract rights to the carondelet canal and navigation company which are within the protection of the .....

Holden Land Co. Vs. Interstate Trading Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... , which, in unequivocal terms, provides (rev.stat. 5198) that the "taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done [which the record discloses was so taken in this case], shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence ..... court under a federal statute which has been in substantially the same form, so far as this writ of error is concerned, since the passage of the judiciary act in 1789. this is not controverted in the opinion in this case, but the position is taken that the decision rests upon an independent ground not involving ..... upon this point the supreme court of kansas said (87 kan. 221, 233, 234): "usury was charged and collected upon the holden note. by the national banking act, the exaction of usury destroys the interest-bearing quality of a debt. the referee decided that the plaintiffs were estopped from claiming the benefit of that provision. nothing was .....

Richards Vs. Washington Terminal Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... to an extent amounting to an entire deprivation of its use and enjoyment without compensation to the owner, "nor could such authority be invoked to justify acts creating physical discomfort and annoyance to others in the use and enjoyment of their property, to a less extent than entire deprivation, if different places from ..... time, there is no exclusive and permanent appropriation of any portion of plaintiff's land, which, indeed, does not even abut upon defendant's property. the acts of congress do not in terms provide for the payment of compensation to property owners damnified through the construction and operation of the tunnel and railroad lines in ..... , parliament, being omnipotent, may authorize the taking of private property for public use without compensation, the english courts decline to place an unjust construction on its acts, and, unless so clear as not to admit any other meaning, do not interpret them as interfering with rights of private property. legislation of congress is .....