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..... judge of the county court of orleans " "the petition of zulime carriere desgrange, an inhabitant of the city of new orleans, humbly showeth:" "that whereas it is provided by the first section of an act, entitled an act concerning alimony, and for other purposes, that the county court shall have jurisdiction on application from wives against their husbands, for alimony, on the husband deserting his wife, for one year successively ..... the following order: "ordered by the court, that the bond referred to in the petition on file in the office of the clerk of this court be cancelled, and the security discharged, and that, as the defendant hath forfeited her right to the property acquired in the community, that the same vest in and belong to the petitioner. ..... it is reported in all the city, publicly and notoriously, that the said geronimo desgrange has three wives, and not being able to keep secret such an act, as scandalous as it is opposed to the precepts of our holy mother church, his excellency has ordered, that in order to proceed in the investigation, and to the corresponding penalty, testimony be produced to ..... on 10 june, 1844, the mother of the complainant, styling herself madame marie zulime carriere, and widow of the late daniel clark, by her notarial act, made in the city of new orleans, accepted, without benefit of inventory, the community of acquests and gains of one moiety, which it is alleged existed between her and her late ..... american vessels in this port since i was here .....
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..... that this law levies a duty on tonnage or on imports or exports is not admissible, and, if so, it also follows that this law is not repugnant to the first clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, which declares that all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the united states, for if it is not to be deemed a law levying a ..... fees and charges for pilotage, and from the penalties by which commercial states enforced their pilot-laws, as they were from charges for wharfage or towage, or any other local port-charges for services rendered to vessels or cargoes, and to declare that such pilot fees or penalties are embraced within the words imposts or duties on imports, exports, or tonnage would ..... extent of this particular discrimination in favor of vessels engaged in the coal trade which would enable us to declare it to be other than a fair exercise of legislative discretion, acting upon the subject of the regulation of the pilotage of this port of philadelphia with a view to operate upon the masters of those vessels who, as a general rule, ought to take a pilot, and with the further view of relieving ..... section of the act of 1803 now under consideration does not apply to coasting vessels of less burden than seventy-five tons, not to those bound to, or sailing from, a port ..... eighth section of the first article: "the congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the indian tribes .....
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..... essential difference between them, but regards them as resolving themselves into the single objection of the want of an obligee or grantee capable of receiving any legal rights from the acts of samuel sargeant, for it follows necessarily that if any legal or equitable rights were invested or transferred by the title bonds delivered by sargeant in his lifetime to the commissioners ..... the circuit court, it may be proper here to refer to an act of the legislature of the state of indiana approved on 20 january, 1826, entitled "an act amendatory of the law for the better advancement of justice," under which statute the decision of the circuit court of tippecanoe, impugned by the plaintiffs below, was made by the tenth section of this statute it is provided "that whenever any person or persons ..... by the general law of indiana, approved january 14, 1824, entitled "an act to establish the seats of justice in new counties," it is provided in section first "that whenever any new county shall be laid off, five commissioners shall be appointed whose duty it shall be to locate the seat of justice ..... ; the act of the indiana legislature creating the county of tippecanoe, passed january 20, 1826, by section seventh so far alters the general law of 1824, for the establishment of new counties, as to substitute a board of five justices of ..... " by section fourth of the same act, it is declared "that the county commissioners, so soon as the report of the locating commissioners is received, shall appoint a county .....
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..... as shall remain unsold, that they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall stand seized thereof to the use of the united states until the debt aforesaid shall be fully brk:" paid and discharged, and there afterwards to the use of the said president, directors, and company, their successors and assigns forever, provided always, and it is hereby expressly agreed and declared by and between the ..... did decide, we cannot infer that they decided wrong; otherwise nothing would be necessary in any case to prevent this court from reversing an erroneous judgment under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act, but that counsel should raise on the record some point of local law, however erroneous, and suggest that the court below may have rested its judgment thereon. ..... times thereafter, by deed duly executed, to fill up such vacancies, and the said trustees, when so appointed by the secretary of the treasury as aforesaid, shall all of them have the like power and authority to act in the several trusts according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if such new or other trustee or trustees had been actually named herein by ..... from the record that the highest court of the state passed on one of the questions described in the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act, and different modes in which this may appear by the record are pointed out in armstrong v. ..... relied on its giving time as discharging them from their obligation. .....
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..... unsettled territory, we have learned that when georgia did cede it to the united states, she was then in possession and had a right to all the land, subject to the indian title, which that state had declared to be within her limits except so much as there was between the tugaloo and keowee rivers, which georgia had ceded to south carolina by the convention of ..... the defendant in error claims under a patent from the united states to himself to fractional section 11, township 7, range 30, and proved title to himself to lots 1, 2, 3, 4, in the town of gerard, in russell county, alabama, specifically described, in some of said counts of his declaration as land having for ..... in february, 1785, georgia passed another act for the establishment of a county to the west of the chattahoochee, within a line to be drawn down the mississippi from where it receives the yazoo till it intersects the 31st degree of north latitude, thence due east as far as the lands might be found to reach which had at any time been relinquished by the indians, then along the line of relinquishment to the river ..... its limits will be found in the 13th section of the act of february, 1783, wat.dig. ..... the supreme court of alabama, and brought to this court to be reviewed, under the 25th section of the judiciary act. ..... , where the judgment was affirmed, whence it was brought to this court under the 25th section of the judiciary act. ..... produced a patent from the united states to himself dated in 1802 to fractional section no. .....
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..... the modes of acquiring lands or gravel on the shores or in the bed of the river and for compensating the owners of property used in the prosecution of the contemplated improvement, the act proceeds to limit the time for the completion of the undertaking, within particular termini therein named, to the period of seven years from its date, and further requires that within the period ..... the rule here given with respect to the regulation of foreign commerce equally excludes from the regulation of commerce between the states and the indian tribes the control over turnpikes, canals, or railroads, or the clearing and deepening of watercourses exclusively within the states, or the management of the transportation upon and ..... a law of the state granting the exclusive navigation of the upper river to a company who were to improve it is not in conflict with the 8th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the united states, and a license to carry on the coasting trade did not entitle a vessel to navigate the ..... , that the statute of the state of maine is in derogation of the power vested in congress by the article and section above mentioned, "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the indian tribes. ..... the fact of procuring from the collector of the port of bangor a license to prosecute the coasting trade for the boat placed upon the penobscot by the plaintiff in error, the governor dana does not affect, in the slightest degree, the rights or .....
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..... one of those reserved for schools in the different townships in the territory of mississippi by an act of congress passed in 1803, and that afterwards, as late as the year 1815, another act was passed authorizing the county court of each county in the territory to lease the sections so reserved in order to improve them and to apply the rents to purposes of education within the township, and also to proceed and recover damages against any persons found trespassing upon them ..... it also denies that the territorial government had any power to incorporate the plaintiffs; that the title remained in the united states, it never having been appropriated to any special grantee; that under the act of congress of 19 april, 1816, for the admission of the state of indiana into the union, the title to the land in question became vested in the state. ..... 281 whether the opposing party had not a right prior and superior to the state by virtue of an indian reservation made in the treaty by which the territory had been ceded to the united states. ..... if, on general principles, the title to this township cannot be considered as vested in the state of indiana, it is contended it so vested by the provision in the sixth section of the act of 19 april, 1816, which admitted the state into the union. ..... the boundaries of the vincennes land district were the same as designated in a late treaty with the wabash indians. .....
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..... property for the benefit of his creditors, provides that his after acquired property shall be liable to seizure, and also that liens previously acquired shall not be affected by such assignment and discharge; but it does not affect to change the relative priority of lien creditors, as it existed at the time of the discharge, or to take away from any lien creditor his prior right of satisfaction, which had been vested in him previous to such ..... but if the plaintiff be remitted to other remedies by a discharge of his debtor by act of law, or by an escape, it will not operate to restore his lien on the debtor's property, which he has elected to waive or abandon as against creditors who have obtained a precedence during such ..... it is true, if the debtor should die in prison, or be discharged by act of the law without consent of the creditor, he may have an action on the judgment or leave to have other executions against the property of his ..... the plaintiff afterwards, in march, 1844, on affidavit and proof of the defendant's discharge by force of the insolvent law, had leave of the court to issue a ..... defendant was taken and imprisoned, until discharged by due process of law. ..... waives and extinguishes all other remedies on the goods or lands of the debtor while the imprisonment continues, and if the debtor be discharged by the consent of the creditor, the judgment is forever extinguished, and the plaintiff remitted to such contracts or securities as he has taken as the price of the discharge. .....
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..... became a state, provided that the courts of the united states 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 became a state, and that for the sole ..... jury empanelled on the 16th april, 1845, for feloniously killing seaborn hill a white man, on the 8th of july, 1844, in the country belonging to the creek nation of indians west of arkansas, and which formed a part of the indian country annexed to the judicial district of arkansas, by the act of congress approved on the 17th of june, 1844, "an act supplementary to the act entitled an act to regulate trade and intercourse with indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,'" passed 30 june, 1834. ..... 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 sole purpose of carrying this act into effect, the indian country, bounded east by arkansas and missouri, west by mexico, north by the osage country, and south by red river, shall be and hereby is annexed to the territory of arkansas. .....
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..... and franchises in relation thereto, confirmed and declared by the said acts, and that the route of that part of the western division of said railroad lying between michigan city, in the county of laporte, and the western line of the state of indiana was duly surveyed ..... that the northern indiana railroad company, after being duly organized, examined, surveyed, marked, and located the route of their railroad, and by the means specified in the aforesaid acts procured the right of way for said railroad as the same has been constructed, and become seised in fee of the right to the lands acquired for that purpose, with all the privileges ..... the old bank of the united states sued devereux and robertson in the circuit court of georgia, alleging that it was a corporation established under an act of congress of 1791, and alleging further that the petitioners, the president, directors, and company of the bank of the united states, were citizens of the state of pennsylvania and that devereux and robertson, ..... and the complainants further allege that the new albany & salem railroad company is a corporation, created by and under certain acts of the legislature of the state of indiana and doing business therein, has no power or franchise to construct or to authorize the construction of any railroad whatsoever except what is contained in certain statutes referred to .....
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