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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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..... 1730, obtained their submission to the crown, and took to england some of their chiefs, to ratify a treaty there with the lords commissioners of trade and plantations. this treaty describes no boundaries, but is one of amity, and contains stipulations that the cherokees in future shall be subject to the sovereignty of the british ..... upon any warrant for lands within the country reserved for the officers and soldiers, until the apportionment and draft for the same, as directed by the act entitled 'an act to adjust and regulate the pay and accounts of the officers and soldiers of the virginia line.'" on 18 december, 1782, a warrant was issued to ..... in continental service, and the regulations for the surveying and appropriating the same, shall be extended to the state officers." in may, 1782, an act was passed, entitled "an act for providing more effectual funds for the redemption of certificates granted the officers and soldiers raised by this state." the seventh section provided that "whereas .....
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..... , whether within or without the limits of where the commons fence stood. i went within the commons to get horses and hunt while the fence stood. there were plantations on the bank of the mississippi -- brazeau, tayon, and others. brazeau, tayon, and others had separate fences, including all their cultivated ground, but did not ..... in a supreme court of error of a state, when reversing the proceedings of inferior courts of original jurisdiction -- and on this principle we are compelled to act in the present suit when dealing with the instruction given on behalf of the defendant. 2. the following instructions were next asked on part of the plaintiffs, ..... mackay" "received for record, st. louis, 27 february, 1806." "antoine soulard" " surveyor-general of territory of louisiana " 3. proceedings of the board of commissioners, under the act of congress passed in 1805, 2 lit. & brown's ed. 324, and in connection with this the second volume of american state papers, "public lands," 549, 377. copied .....
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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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..... coal trade. it was held that the general regulation as to half pilotage was proper, and that the exemption was a fair exercise of legislative discretion acting upon the subject of the regulation of the pilotage of the port of philadelphia. the court said that in making pilotage regulations, the legislative discretion had ..... tobacco or his agent. in order to determine whether the statutory provisions in question are obnoxious to the objection made, their meaning must be ascertained. the act of 1864 requires the inspector to examine the hogshead to ascertain whether it is of the required dimensions, and then to inspect the tobacco itself by sampling ..... seq. c. 22. size of casks for pickled fish. id., p. 1000. act of 1757. rhode island: regulating the inspection of beef, pork, pickled fish, and tobacco and ascertaining the assize of casks, clapboards, shingles, boards, etc. public laws of rhode island and providence plantations (ed. 1789), pp. 509, 512, 522. connecticut: stat.conn. (ed. 1786 .....
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..... be held in common; that the certificate of armental of 1798 was probably signed before the act of juridical possession, and reasonably bore the construction that the petitioners had agreed, in pursuance of an original understanding that a colony of twenty persons should be ..... the boundaries specified, and as an offer of release of all claims to any part of the land by virtue of the grant of 1788; that the act of juridical possession showed that the twenty petitioners, including the garcias, were placed in possession, and each received 300 varas of land, leaving the remainder to ..... other petitioners (naming them) being present, "all interested, and well informed in regard to the matter," he took them over the lands, performing the usual formal acts in proof of legal possession, "which they received quietly and peaceably, without any opposition whatever, because, after concluding all these ceremonies, i delivered to each one of .....
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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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..... the original entry when made. an erroneous interpretation of a statute by the commissioner of the department to which it applies does not confer any legal rights on one acting in conformity with such interpretation in opposition to the express terms of the statute. congress having said without qualification, by 452, rev.stat., that employees in the general ..... in the purchase of, public lands, this prohibition applies to special agents of that office and renders an entry made by a special agent under the timber culture act void, leaving the land open to entry, notwithstanding that such agent made the same in good faith when there was a ruling of the commissioner that 452 did ..... an entry under what is known as the timber culture statutes. page 208 u. s. 68 asserting that, in virtue of such entry, he was entitled, under the acts of congress, to a patent from the united states, prosser brought the present suit against finn in one of the courts of washington, the relief asked being a decree .....
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..... -- omitted]. the facts, briefly stated, upon which relief is asked, are these: the state, as a part of its economic policy, operates with its convicts three sugar plantations and three sugar mills. it is therefore a producer of sugar, which must find a market in competition with that imported from the republic of cuba and other sugar exporting ..... of either judgment or discretion, he may be required to do that thing upon application of one having a distinct legal interest in the doing of the act. such an act would be ministerial only. but if the matter in respect to which the action of the official is sought is one in which the exercise of either ..... such reduction is more than the preferential under the cuban convention, the preferential duty under that convention ceases. upon the other hand, the contention is that the underwood act manifested a plain purpose to continue a preferential of 20% upon the reduced duties provided therein, a purpose manifested by the abrogation page 234 u. s. 631 of .....
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