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State of Minnesota Vs. Bachelder

Court : US Supreme Court

..... on the premises, nor erect a dwelling house thereon, nor make any improvements on the same, previous to the survey of the sections by the government; and besides their false representations to the register and receiver, they procured one george dazner to make a false affidavit as evidence of the settlements, erection of the dwelling houses and improvements before these officers ..... court: it is not important to inquire as to the power of congress to pass this law independently of any application from the territorial legislature, as the assent of the people through their convention, by coming into the union as a state, upon the terms proposed, must be regarded as binding the state. the right of the state to the school .....

The Fossat or Quicksilver Mine Case

Court : US Supreme Court

..... within certain natural boundaries. when he presented the petition, he filed with it copies of the expediente and of the original grant under which he claimed, and his representation was that he held the title to the tract through certain mesne conveyances therein mentioned and described. referring to the expediente, it will be seen that it consists ..... of justice, and the judges of this court being unable, of course, to visit the place, three thousand miles away, which the judge below had actually done, sworn representations, the artists' oaths accompanying their work were laid before this bench. to exhibit these photographs and landscapes as part of the "case" page 69 u. s. 677 ..... in certain directions as to be visible for fifteen miles -- a prominent feature in the landscape. it was testified, in fact, to be so well known to the people of the neighborhood as to have acquired the name of "encino coposo de la sierra azul." further, on the diseno of berreyesa, the mining ridge was styled lomas .....

Bates Vs. Brown

Court : US Supreme Court

..... descend in equal parts to the next of kin to the intestate, in equal degree, computing by the rules of the civil law; and there shall be no representation among collaterals, except with the descendants of the brothers and sisters of the intestate; and in no case shall there be a distinction between the kindred of the ..... of march, 1845, are to be considered in this connection. the ordinance created a court which it declared "shall have common law jurisdiction," and it guaranteed to the people of the territory "judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law." there is no allusion in it to the common law but these. the two acts ..... which illinois was originally page 72 u. s. 712 part, created a court which it declared should have "common law jurisdiction;" and the ordinance guaranteed also to the people of the territory "judicial proceedings, according to the course of the common law." this ordinance declared that the estates of persons dying intestate. "shall descend to and be .....

Mississippi Vs. Johnson

Court : US Supreme Court

..... commissions, which the act authorized. it provided further that, on the formation of new constitutions and certain conditions which the act prescribed, the states respectively should be declared entitled to representation in congress, and the preceding part of the act become inoperative, and that, until they were so admitted, any civil governments which might exist in them should be deemed provisional ..... bill set out the political history of mississippi so far as related to its having become one of the united states, and "that forever after, it was impossible for her people, or for the state in its corporate capacity, to dissolve that connection with the other states, and that any attempt to do so by secession or otherwise was a nullity .....

Georgia Vs. Stanton

Court : US Supreme Court

..... reside," and when such article should have become a part of the constitution of the united states, then that the states respectively should be declared entitled to representation in congress and the preceding part of the act become inoperative, and that until they were so admitted, any civil governments which might exist in them should ..... were about setting in motion a portion of the army to take military possession of the state, and threatened to subvert her government and to subject her people to military rule; that the state was wholly inadequate to resist the power and force of the executive department of the united states. she therefore insisted that ..... disturbers of the public peace and criminals, either through the local civil tribunals or through military commissions, which the act authorized. it provided further that when the people of any one of these states had formed a constitution in conformity with that of the united states, framed by a convention of delegates elected by male .....

Texas Vs. White

Court : US Supreme Court

..... authorized to make any engagement in behalf of the state, and in fact made none. it is true also that the treasury department, influenced perhaps by these representations, departed to some extent from its original rule and paid bonds held by some of the defendants without the required indorsement. but it is clear that this ..... united states, and when such article should have become a part of the constitution of the united states, then that the states respectively should be declared entitled to representation in congress, and the preceding part of the act become inoperative, and that, until they were so admitted, any civil governments which might exist in them should ..... which compose it one people and one country. the use of the word in this sense hardly requires further remark. in the clauses which impose prohibitions upon the states in respect to the making of treaties, emitting of bills of credit, and laying duties of tonnage, and which guarantee to the states representation in the house of .....

In Re: William Tayler

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : 44Ind.Cas.930

..... avowed by defaming the proceedings of the court, standing upon its rules and orders, and interesting the public, prejudiced in favour of the author by her own partial representation, to procure a different species of judgment from that, which would be administered in the ordinary course; and by flattering the judge to taint the source of justice. ..... independent bar, a profession of which the members, from their education and habits of mind, have ever been the watchful guardians of the rights and liberties of the people, and the foremost to protect against any arbitrary or unconstitutional exercise of power. if i have exercised tyrannically the powers committed to me (as i have been ..... so far as the village was concerned, could not by any attempt on the part of the vendor be industriously concealed, for it was known to hundreds of people residing in the village sold. the attachment would be known in no time if a proper man had been deputed to make necessary enquiries on the spot. therefore .....

Virginia Vs. West Virginia

Court : US Supreme Court

..... island denied that she had ever consented to a line run by certain commissioners. the plea of massachusetts averred that she had consented. a question of fraudulent representation in obtaining certain action of the state of rhode island was also made in the pleadings. it is said in that opinion that, "title, jurisdiction, sovereignty ..... footnote 1 ] congress passed " an act for the admission of the state of "west virginia" " " into the union, and for other purposes " " whereas the people inhabiting that portion of virginia known as west virginia did by a convention assembled in the city of wheeling, on the 26th november, 1861, frame for themselves a constitution with ..... called "ordinance of secession" to separate that state from the union, and, combined with certain other southern states, to accomplish that separation by arms. the people of the northwestern part of the state, who were separated from the eastern part by a succession of mountain ranges and had never received the heresy of .....

Legal Tender Cases

Court : US Supreme Court

..... state of things is acceptable to debtors, investors in bonds, and speculators. it is their opportunity of relief or wealth. and many are persuaded by their representations that the forced circulation is not only a necessity but a benefit. but the apparent benefit is a delusion, and the necessity imaginary. in their legitimate use ..... justice and civil liberty, lurked under any general grant of legislative authority or ought to be implied from any general expressions of the will of the people. the people ought not to be presumed to part with rights so vital to their security and well being without very strong and direct expressions of such an ..... , all which are forbidden to the state governments. it has jurisdiction over all those general subjects of legislation and sovereignty which affect the interests of the whole people equally and alike and which require uniformity of regulations and laws, such as the coinage, weights and measures, bankruptcies, the postal system, patent and copyright laws .....

White Vs. Hart

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of the united states having been ratified in good faith by a legal legislature of said state, it is hereby declared that the state of georgia is entitled to representation in the congress of the united states. [ footnote 3 ]" her representatives and senators were thereupon admitted to seats in congress. this act removed the last of the ..... such further remarks as are called for by the exigencies of the case before us. the national constitution was, as its preamble recites, ordained and established by the people of the united states. it created not a confederacy of states, but a government of individuals. it assumed that the government and the union which it created, and ..... states are each alike absolute and independent of each other in their respective spheres of action, but the former is as much a part of the government of the people of each state, and as much entitled to their allegiance and obedience as their own local state governments -- "the constitution of the united states and the laws .....