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..... exception does not extend to opening shops, to mechanical work in compact places, etc.). 1798: an act prohibiting sports and labour on the first day of the week, public laws of rhode-island and providence plantations (1798) 577. south carolina: 1692: an act for the better observance of the lord's day, commonly called sunday, 2 statutes at large of ..... police officer, a stipendiary magistrate, or two justices of the peace. [ footnote 2/16 ] common informer practice under this statute has since been abolished. common informers act, 1951, 14 & 15 geo. vi, c. 39. [ footnote 2/17 ] see fennell v. ridler, 5 b. & c. 406, 407-408 (1826): "the spirit of the ..... sales with exceptions). cf. state v. trahan, 214 la. 100, 36 so.2d 652 (1948), and arrigo v. city of lincoln, 154 neb. 537, 48 n.w.2d 643 (1951) (exceptions for classes of businesses), holding unconstitutional sunday statutes in particular applications deemed discriminatory. [ footnote 2/134 ] city of denver v. bach, 26 colo. 530, 58 p. 1089 ( .....
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..... as to distinguish it from other inventions. patents granted without page 90 u. s. 236 a compliance with those conditions are invalid, as the express requirement of the act of congress is that every inventor or discoverer shall do so before he shall receive a patent for his invention or discovery. [ footnote 2/1 ] letters patent were ..... making, constructing, using, and compounding the same in such full, clear, and exact terms as to enable a person skilled in the art to reproduce it, and the act directs that the inventor shall "particularly specify and point out the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his own invention or discovery." this, of course, ..... thereby saving much labor. the bergen dropper and the selby dropper agreed with brown's in having each a slide hopper valve having two passages, a double-acting vibrating seed tube valve located within and extending the length of the seed tube, which vibrating valve formed alternate seed passages for the grain to the ground, at .....
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..... competent to make it effectual as a contract. hence a married woman is not estopped by her covenants. plainly the wife was not competent to purchase supplies for the plantation of the husband, and therefore cannot be estopped by these recitals. bigelow, estoppel 276; jackson v. vanderheyden, 17 johns. (n.y.) 167. viewed in the ..... for property purchased on credit, the rule being that such an obligation cannot be enforced. contracts made in the purchase of supplies for the cultivation of her own plantation, where the cultivation is on her own account and for her own benefit, may be enforced against her separate property. previously, says the chief justice, the ..... not purchased directly by her but by the husband, they imposed no liability on her separate property, unless the husband had her consent to act. unlike that, the rule is that supplies for her plantation, or for the repairs or improvement of her separate estate, or for work, labor, and services in cultivating the same, the contracts .....
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..... and limits of the said several colonies, or that shall enterprise or attempt at any time hereafter the least detriment or annoyance of the said several colonies or plantations." the charter to connecticut concludes a general power to make defensive war with these terms: "and upon just causes to invade and destroy the natives or ..... and are under the protection of the united states. the plaintiff is a citizen of the state of vermont, condemned to hard labour for four years in the penitentiary of georgia under colour of an act which he alleges to be repugnant to the constitution, laws, and treaties of the united states. the legislative power of a state ..... offending against the provisions of this section shall guilty of a high misdemeanour, and subject to indictment therefor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by confinement at hard labour in the penitentiary for the space of four years." "sec. 2. and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that, after the time aforesaid, it shall .....
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..... under the commerce clause, enacted the provisions authorizing the quotas and penalties the validity of which is questioned in this case. plaintiffs contend that the act is a plan to control agricultural production, and therefore beyond the powers delegated to congress. the court impliedly concedes that such a plan would be beyond ..... of opinion, therefore, that a case is stated for the interposition of a court of equity. the appellants plant themselves upon three propositions: (1) that the act is a statutory plan to control agricultural production and, therefore, beyond the powers delegated to congress; (2) that the standard for calculating farm quotas is uncertain, ..... industrial products in such commerce, and diminishes the volume of interstate commerce in industrial products, and that the establishment of quotas as provided by the act is necessary and appropriate to promote, foster and obtain an orderly flow of tobacco in interstate and foreign commerce. there is no provision for continuous .....
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..... , "indirect." in answer, the government argues that the statute regulates neither production nor consumption, but only marketing, and, in the alternative, that, if the act does go beyond the regulation of marketing, it is sustainable as a "necessary and proper" [ footnote 15 ] implementation of the power of congress over interstate ..... several million extra acres of wheat. . . . farmers should not be penalized because they have provided insurance against shortages of food." pursuant to the act, the referendum of wheat growers was held on may 31, 1941. according to the required published statement of the secretary of agriculture, 81 percent of those ..... three judges which permanently enjoined the secretary of agriculture and other appellants from enforcing certain penalties against the appellee, a farmer, under the agricultural adjustment act. mr. justice jackson delivered the opinion of the court. the appellee filed his complaint against the secretary of agriculture of the united states, three .....
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..... 34 and 30 farms for 1947 and 1948, respectively. but these low figures resulted from a classification which counted only the "plantations." when smaller independent farms were included in the 1951 figures, the number of hawaiian sugar farms jumped to 786. agricultural, manufacturing and income statistics for the domestic sugar areas, ..... processing plant but also transport farming implements and field laborers on a narrow-gauge railway extending throughout the plantation, are within the agriculture exemption of the act. pp. 349 u. s. 260 -263. (a) the act draws no distinction between large and small farms, or between mechanized and nonmechanized agriculture. p. 349 u ..... of the processing farmers under the agricultural exemption. in 13(a)(10), [ footnote 2/7 ] congress similarly exempted from the wage and hour provisions of the act all employees " within the area of production . . . engaged in handling, packing, storing, ginning, compressing, pasteurizing, drying, preparing in their raw or .....
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..... bona fide grants, and giving full effect to the treaty. no action appears to have been taken before him to ascertain the validity or boundaries of this grant, although the act seems to have remained in force until 1891, when the court of private land claims was created. the public land surveys were extended over the tract in 1861; homestead and ..... by representatives of the original grantee since 1839, but for sixty years thereafter there was no attempt made to assert title thereto. by section 7 of the private land claims act, 26 stat. 854, "all proceedings" therein "shall be conducted, as near as may be, according to the practice of the courts of equity of the united states;" and, by ..... be pleased to make me, in the name of his majesty, a grant for the said piece of land, for myself and my children, heirs and successors, and that the act of royal possession be executed to me, whereby i will receive benefit and favor as well as justice which i seek. and i swear in due form that this, my .....
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..... been previously noted here that the court applied these labels as a heritage from prior decisions under the commerce clause, dealing not, as the knight case, with an act or acts of congress, but with the validity of state statutes, wickard v. filburn, 317 u. s. 111 , 317 u. s. 121 ; united states v ..... be accurately determined. [ footnote 5 ] [ footnote 6 ] paragraph xix of the amended complaint summarized petitioners' conclusions as follows: "by reason of the foregoing acts of the defendant and its said conspirators, interstate commerce in sugar was illegally restrained, competition therein was not only substantially lessened, but was destroyed, the price of ..... concerning its boundaries as the basic criterion of effective congressional action. the transition, however, was neither smooth nor immediately complete, particularly for applying the sherman act. the old ideas persisted in specific applications as late as the 1930's. but after the historic decisions of 1911, and even more following the .....
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..... at one time been, disoriented or confused." george f. kennan, where do you stand on communism? new york times magazine, may 27, 1951, pp. 7, 53, 55. civil liberties draw, at best, only limited strength from legal guaranties. preoccupation by our people with the ..... by force and violence. see page 341 u. s. 500 williams v. united states, 341 u. s. 97 , 341 u. s. 101 -102 (1951); screws v. united states, 325 u. s. 91 , 325 u. s. 101 -105 (1945); cramer v. united states, 325 u. s. 1 ..... affirmed. the question, the court held, was entirely different from that involved in schenck v. united states, where the statute prohibited acts without reference to language. here, where "the legislative body has determined generally, in the constitutional exercise of its discretion, that utterances ..... 1950 decided june 4, 1951 341 u.s. 494 certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the second circuit syllabus 1. as construed and applied in this case, 2(a)(1), 2(a)(3) and 3 of the smith act, 54 stat. 671, .....
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