Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1824
Gibbons v. Ogden - 22 U.S. 1 (1824) U.S. Supreme Court Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 9 Wheat. 1 1 (1824) Gibbons v. Ogden 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1 APPEAL FROM THE COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF IMPEACHMENTS AND CORRECTION OF ERRORS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Syllabus The laws of New York granting to Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton the exclusive right of navigating the waters of that State with steamboats are in collision with the acts of Congress regulating the coasting trade, which, being made in pursuance of the Constitution, are supreme, and the State laws must yield to that supremacy, even though enacted in pursuance of powers acknowledged to remain in the States. The power of regulating commerce extends to the regulation of navigation. The power to regulate commerce extends to every species of commercial intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, and among the several States. It does not stop at the external boundary of a State. But it does not extend to a commerc...
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Love v. Simm's Lessee - 22 U.S. 515 (1824) U.S. Supreme Court Love v. Simm's Lessee, 22 U.S. 515 (1824) Love v. Simm's Lessee 22 U.S. 515 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TENNESSEE Syllabus A question under the registry acts of Tennessee whether a junior conveyance registered should take precedence of a prior unregistered deed. Held that the registry did not, under the circumstances, vest the title against the elder deed. Page 22 U. S. 516 MR. JUSTICE JOHNSON delivered the opinion of the Court. This cause comes up from the Circuit Court for the District of West Tennessee. The judgment in that court is in favor of the plaintiff in ejectment, and error is brought to reverse that judgment on the ground that the court below instructed the jury that the plaintiff there had the better title, and ought to recover. The facts of the cause are exhibited in a bill of exceptions, and, so far as are necessary to illustrate this opinion, may be stated thus: One Stockly Donaldson obtained...
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Ex Parte Wood and Brundage - 22 U.S. 603 (1824) U.S. Supreme Court Ex Parte Wood and Brundage, 22 U.S. 9 Wheat. 603 603 (1824) Ex Parte Wood and Brundage 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 603 Syllabus Under the tenth section of the Patent Act of 21 February 1793, ch. 11, upon granting a rule by the judge of the district court upon the patentee, to show cause why process should not issue to repeal the patent, the patent is not repealed de facto by making the rule absolute, but the process to be awarded is in the nature of a scire facias at common law to the patentee to show cause why the patent should not repealed, with costs of suit, and upon the return of such process, duly served, the judge is to proceed to stay the cause upon the pleadings filed by the parties and the issue joined thereon. If the issue be an issue of fact, the trial thereof is to be by a jury; if an issue of law, by the court, as in other cases. In such a case, a record is to be made of the proceedings antecedent to th...
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