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..... against corporations, not the foreign governments, the distinction does not matter. insisting on a sharp line between public and private 398 syllabus acts in defining the legitimate scope of the executive's international negotiations would hamstring the president in settling international controversies. generally, then, valid ..... injunctive relief against respondent insurance commissioner of california, challenging the constitutionality of hvira. the district court issued a preliminary injunction against enforcing the act, reflecting its probability judgment that "hvira is unconstitutional based on a violation of the federal foreign affairs power and a violation of the ..... thomas join, dissenting. responding to holocaust victims' and their descendents' long-frustrated efforts to collect unpaid insurance proceeds, california's holocaust victim insurance relief act of 1999 (hvira), cal. ins. code ann. 13800 et seq. (west cum. supp. 2003), requires insurance companies operating in the state .....
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..... to enforce the laws of the state within the aforesaid territory." at the same session of its legislature, the state of georgia passed another act, entitled "an act to authorize the governor to take possession of the gold, silver, and other mines lying and being in that section of the chartered limits of ..... subject only to indian occupancy, not as foreign states or nations, but as dependent on and appendant to the state governments; that, before the convention acted, congress had erected a government in the northwestern territory containing numerous and powerful nations or tribes of indians whose jurisdiction was continued and whose sovereignty was overturned ..... treated the country of the six nations as one appendant to the government of new york; that they have been so recognized and admitted by their public acts by massachusetts, connecticut, pennsylvania, maryland and virginia; that, by accepting this cession, the jurisdiction of the whole western territory, belonging to the six nations .....
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..... absence of any evidence of confirmations by intendants, with positive evidence of their approbation by the captain general of cuba, in making (record 12) formal acts of confirmation without objection by the intendant general of cuba or by local intendants. when to these considerations is added another, arising from the circumstance of ..... as the supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power, subordinate to the king only. and as it became afterwards in the hands of the governor alone by act of congress subordinate only thereto, while under both, the government was administered in conformity to the local laws and municipal regulations. it cannot, therefore, be doubted ..... in the ceded provinces, which were declared to continue in force by the proclamation of the governor in taking possession of the provinces, and by the acts of congress, which assured all the inhabitants of protection in their property. it would be an unwarranted construction of these treaties, laws, ordinances, and municipal .....
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..... 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 ..... 23 may, 1775, the first legislative assembly of said colony was held therein, and regulations adopted for the future government of the same. col. richard henderson, acting for himself and the other proprietors, communicated with the assembly, by an address delivered to it; the proprietors exhibited their deed to the soil of transylvania from ..... 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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..... would not seem to vitiate it under the reservation made of a right to proceed against savage for what he had received. the complainants, then, fully confirmed savage's acts as a sale, just as much as if no further money had been paid. though they asked for this additional sum, this was no injury to savage, and should ..... kentucky in 1837 to look after their interests. the previous special attorneys had not interfered, as hutchinson, one of them, soon died, and bennock, the other, declined to act. and samuel taylor, in letters to him in 1824 and 1825, inquiring, among other things, if savage had returned to south carolina and exhibited any further account of his ..... u. s. 1 how. 284, in this case. and it is clear that under a statute of alabama, which must, by the thirty-fourth section of the judiciary act, govern this case, the objection cannot be sustained. this statute provides that "where any suit may have been commenced on behalf of or against the personal representative or representatives .....
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..... the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the said general assembly passed an act in the words following, to-wit:" " an act in amendment of an act, entitled an act revising the act entitled an act regulating the manner of admitting freemen, and directing the manner of electing officers in this state." " ..... relating merely to imprisonment, like the suspension of the habeas corpus, but forms of arrest without warrant, breaking into houses where no offenders were found, and acting exclusively under military orders, rather than civil precepts. had the legislature meant merely to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, they, of course, would have said ..... ratified and confirmed the same, and, as one of the united states of america under said articles of confederation and perpetual union, was received, recognized, and acted with and by the other states of the said confederation, and by the united states of america in congress assembled, during the continuation of said confederacy." .....
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..... upon the circumstances of each case, and that, before the ascertainment of that fact, a court of equity cannot take cognizance either for enjoining or abating an act alleged, but not proven, to be nuisance; seeing that the commonwealth of virginia, within whose territory and jurisdiction the wheeling bridge has been erected, has authorized ..... us, that sovereignty and that jurisdiction reside either in the commonwealth of virginia or in the federal government. if in the former, she has expressly sanctioned the act complained of; consequently, no nuisance has been committed with respect to her. if the sovereignty and jurisdiction be in the united states, it is a limited and ..... a court of chancery. the ohio is a navigable stream, subject to the commercial power of congress, which has been exercised over it, and if the act of virginia authorized the structure of the bridge so as to obstruct navigation, it would afford no justification to the bridge company. congress has sanctioned the compact .....
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..... congress. to a metropolis, the riverfront was absolutely necessary. if the land was selected adjoining the river, fractions must of necessity be taken, and therefore the act of congress cannot be construed in the restricted sense contended for without violating a leading object of grantor and grantee; nor does it seem to have entered ..... depends, and therefore this court has unrestricted power to adjudge and conclude the controversy. plaintiffs claim title under a new madrid certificate and the defendant under an act of congress granting to the state of missouri a tract of four sections to the end of locating the seat of government on it, and the principal ..... deriving title from the united states after said location and before said patent. [refused.]" "11th. that the notice of location, survey, patent, and other documents and acts shown in evidence by the plaintiffs touching the location of the new madrid certificate no. 347, issued to john b. delisle &c.;, if true and genuine documents, .....
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..... promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." the act of congress of 1836 confers this exclusive right for a limited time, on "any person who has discovered or invented any new and useful art, ..... produced by chemical agency or combination, or by the application of discoveries or principles in natural philosophy known or unknown before his invention, or by machinery acting altogether upon mechanical principles. in either case, he must describe the manner and process as above mentioned and the end it accomplishes. and anyone may lawfully ..... stand on different principles? is there any reason why the inventor's patent should cover broader ground? it would be difficult to discover anything in the act of congress which would justify this distinction. the specification of this patentee describes his invention or discovery and the manner and process of constructing and using .....
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..... executive" required by the law was communicated to them. that approbation having been thus obtained, the departmental authorities proceeded to grant; and in so doing acted in precise conformity with the colonization laws. it had appeared to this court, that the effect of that dispatch was simply to communicate to the departmental ..... absence, throughout james alexander forbes' voluminous correspondence, of any reproach, or even regret, that the forgery had been so clumsily effected as to leave the act of possession "precarious and illegal;" how account for the allusions to the documents of registry in judicial proceedings, official letters of forbes to the alcalde, ..... requirement, andres castillero, on the 30th day of september, 1852, presented the claim in controversy for adjudication to the board of commissioners constituted under that act, and at the same time submitted certain documentary evidences of title, to show that the claim ought to be confirmed. among other things, he represented .....
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