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Tucker Vs. Alexandroff

Court : US Supreme Court

..... constables to apprehend him. these provisions have been substantially carried into the new merchants' shipping act. 57 & 58 vic. c. 60, sec 221. congress, however, has so often spoken upon this subject that we think it can hardly be open to doubt. by rev.stat. sec. 4522, as amended in 1898, 30 stat. 755, regulating seamen engaged in interstate commerce, ..... leave, and refuse to perform to the end of the service for which they were engaged." the rule is the same in england. by section 243 of the merchants' shipping act of 1854 (17 & 18 vic. c. 104), "whenever any seaman who has been lawfully engaged, or any apprentice to the sea service, commits any of the ..... , as amended, 30 stat. 757, "if, after judgment that such vessel is fit to proceed on her intended voyage, . . . the seamen, or either of them, shall refuse to proceed on the voyage, he shall forfeit any wages that may be due him." section 4596 is largely a reproduction of the section above cited from the merchants' shipping act, and .....

Patterson Vs. Bark Eudora

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 275 , in which sections 4598 and 4599, rev.stat., insofar as they require seamen to carry out the contracts contained in their shipping articles, were held not to be in conflict with the thirteenth amendment, and in which a deprivation of personal page 190 u. s. 175 liberty not warranted in respect to other employees was sustained as ..... bound to accept this legislation and enforce it whenever its provisions are violated. the implied consent of this government to leave jurisdiction over the internal affairs of foreign merchant vessels in our harbors to the nations to which those vessels belong may be withdrawn. indeed, the implied consent to permit them to enter our harbors may ..... . 110 f. 430. on appeal to the circuit court of appeals for the third circuit, that court certified the following questions to this court: "first. is the act of congress of december 21, 1898, properly applicable to the contract in this case?" "second. under the agreed statement of facts above set page 190 u. s. 172 .....

Armour Packing Co. Vs. Lacy

Court : US Supreme Court

..... section 3 of article y of the constitution of north carolina, which requires taxation 'by uniform rule;' (4) that the tax is forbidden by the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the united states; (5) that singling out 'meatpacking houses' for taxation is arbitrary or class legislation, and prohibited by both state and ..... use, or for other purposes," but that, after the animals are slaughtered, dressed, and prepared for food or other commercial purposes in kansas, such product is shipped in bulk to wilmington, greensboro, asheville, charlotte, and fayetteville, north carolina, where the company has cold storage plants and warehouses, and sold from such storage plants ..... carcasses of slaughtered animals for food and commercial purposes, and, under the laws of north carolina, said commission merchants, brokers, and butchers are not amenable to the tax levied under 56 of said revenue act of 1903. at all points in north carolina where the armour packing company is engaged in business, and .....

Ayer and Lord Tie Co. Vs. Kentucky

Court : US Supreme Court

..... was concluded there could be nothing but the port of entry, thereby taking away this privilege from the men who built the ship?" "mr. frye. i so understand it." and, without debate, the amendment was adopted, and subsequently, with other amendments, was incorporated as part of the bill which came from the house of representatives, relating to the same general subject as the ..... , although it might be neither the actual situs of the property nor the residence of the owner. the act in question was an elaborate one, containing thirty sections relating to the american merchant marine, and was entitled "an act to remove certain burdens on the american merchant marine, and encourage the american foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes." 23 stat. 53, c. 121 .....

Alagappa Chetty Vs. Chidambaram Chetty and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1906)ILR29Mad526

..... 1863, was a decision under the merchant shipping act of 1854, as modified by the act of 1862, and that it therefore applied the decision in the liverpool borough bank v. turner 29 l.j. ch. 827 which was a decision under the act of 1854, prior to amendment to the provisions of the act as it stood after the act of 1862 was passed. the ..... the allegations in his plaint, was not entitled to rely on his alleged right to a share of the ship referred to in the plaint in consequence of the provisions of the merchant shipping act of 1894 (57 and 58 vict, chapter 60). the ship in question was owned in shares by the defendants nos. 1, 2 and 3 and the brother of the ..... first defendant. the ship is registered under the act in the name of the fourth defendant who, however, has no proprietary .....

Polk Vs. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the statutory appraisement of the policies for bookkeeping purposes no more affects the rights of the members under their contracts than the account of stock of a merchant would affect the rights of his creditors. the first question must be answered in the negative. the second question certified is whether the law of 1901 ..... person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." the circuit court of appeals desires instruction upon the following: " questions " "1. does the amended bill of complaint disclose that any contract obligations between complainants and the defendant mutual reserve fund life association were impaired by the incorporation of the mutual reserve life ..... of law. wright v. minnesota mutual life insurance co., 193 u. s. 657 . the legislative power to alter, amend and repeal charters is equally effectual whether it be reserved in the original act of incorporation, the articles of association under a general law, or in the constitution of the state in force when the .....

Waters-pierce Oil Co. Vs. Deselms

Court : US Supreme Court

..... duly inspected in the territory, the fluids subject to inspection might be shipped to any portion of the territory without additional inspection. see laws 1895, 1, p. 174. this act was amended in 1899. session laws 1899, p. 186. section 2 of the act amended 8 of the prior act to read as follows: "all illuminating fluids that flash under the conditions ..... of these instructions, the agent at guthrie, without any renewed inspection of the oil in the tank containing the mixture of gasolene and coal oil, sold the same to merchants in his territory as coal oil. on january 28, 1903, three barrels of the mixture were so sold to powers & deselms, retail grocers at orlando, oklahoma. one ..... of the barrels was sold by the firm to another merchant, and the two remaining barrels were taken to the store of the firm, and their contents placed in an empty tank used for that purpose. the barrels thus sold .....

Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky Vs. Tennessee

Court : US Supreme Court

..... to warrant turning the defendant out of the state for an interference with interstate trade. the transaction complained of was inducing merchants in gallatin to revoke orders on a rival company for oil to be shipped from pennsylvania by an agreement to give them 300 gallons of oil. it is said that, as the only illegal purpose ..... 420 the basis of the former contention is that, by 3 of the act, any violation of it is made a crime, punishable by fine, imprisonment, or ..... against the corporation were held to entail the ouster under a statute of tennessee. act of march 16, 1903. the corporation brings the case here on the contentions that the statute, as construed by the court, is contrary to the fourteenth amendment, and also is an unconstitutional interference with commerce among the states. page 217 u. s. .....

Richardson Vs. Harmon

Court : US Supreme Court

..... unnecessary statement if it was only meant to extend the limitation to obligations ex contractu? the meager debate which occurred upon this section of the act -- an act which included many other matters concerning the shipping interests of the country -- if competent page 222 u. s. 103 at all, throws little or no light as to the meaning which ..... the necessary effect be to repeal any part of the former law because of repugnance, that consequence must be declared. so, too, if it be in effect an amendment of the law as it stood, by extending that law to cases not before within it, that effect must be given to it without any unnecessary disturbance of the ..... such was the law, and so it still is unless changed by the eighteenth section of the act of june 26, 1884. that section is found in a chapter the title of which is, "an act to remove certain burdens on the american merchant marine, and encourage the american foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes." the eighteenth section reads as .....

United States Vs. Twenty-five Packages of Panama Hats

Court : US Supreme Court

..... punished for his fraud. but when the consignor made the fraudulent undervaluation in the foreign country, and on such false invoice the goods were shipped, and arrived consigned to a merchant in new york, the merchandise was within the protection and subject to the penalties of the commercial regulations of this country, even though ..... such means "to introduce any imported merchandise into the commerce of the united states." this latter phrase necessarily included more than an attempt to enter, otherwise the amendment was inoperative against the consignor against whom it was specially aimed, for he does not, as such, make the declaration, sign the documents, or take ..... syllabus the expression -- to attempt to introduce into the commerce of the united states -- includes more than to attempt to enter merchandise, and, as used in the act of august 5, 1909, c. 6, 36 stat. 11, 97, it covers fraudulent invoices made by consignors in foreign countries. as statutes have no extraterritorial operation .....