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Gray Vs. National Steamship Company

Court : US Supreme Court

..... after the sale of its property, the navigation company had no power to do business under the companies act and existed only for purposes of liquidation. ..... both of the companies were english corporations, formed under the english statute known as the companies act of 1862. .....

New Orleans Board of Liquidation Vs. Hart

Court : US Supreme Court

..... . the relator, with his judgment against the city, has a right to stand, with reference to those proceeds, on an equal footing with her other creditors notwithstanding that by the terms of the act of 1882 he is excluded from all participation in them, and, to enable him to do so, he can demand the bonds of the city for the balance due him, pursuant to the compromise with the ..... it authorized the renewal and extension of outstanding bonds of the city other than premium bonds, and the issue of interest-bearing certificates for matured coupons; but the provision of the act of 1880 for transferring all the property of the city not dedicated to public use to the board, creating a fund to purchase and retire her bonds, continued in force ..... . the relator therefore prayed for an alternative writ of mandamus commanding the board to prepare and issue the bonds of the city, pursuant to act 67 of 1884, to the amount and value of the balance due on his judgment, and deliver them to him, and that the board be cited to answer his demand, and that upon the hearing the writ be ..... . the seventh section provided that the surplus, if any, of the premium bond tax of each year, or on hand at the passage of the act, after all the drawn series, interest, and premiums thereon, exigible or due to the holders thereof, had been provided for or fully paid should also be deposited with the fiscal agent of the board on account ..... that, both as to principal and interest, was to be determined by a lottery .....

New Orleans Vs. Houston

Court : US Supreme Court

..... company, and requires it to file a written renunciation of this feature with the secretary of state within sixty days after the ratification of the constitution, the object in view being, as it is contended, obviously to place the louisiana state lottery company, under its charter as granted in the year 1868, but subject to and modified by the provisions of the constitution of 1879, on an equal footing merely with other and new ..... been repealed, but revives it only so far as under that clause the general assembly was authorized to grant lottery charters or privileges in the future; that this constitutional authority to grant new lottery charters or privileges does not warrant the legislature in stipulating, by way of contract, that the minimum license tax of $40,000 per annum shall be in lieu of all other taxes upon the property, and operate to exempt the company, so far as taxation is concerned, from the effect ..... 322, in which it was held that the tax provided for in the section 122 of the internal revenue act of 1864, as amended, requiring railroad and other corporations to pay a tax upon interest and dividends payable by them, with the right to deduct the same from the amounts otherwise due to creditors and stockholders, was a tax upon the latter, and not upon the corporation, because the corporation was made use of merely as a convenient means of collecting the .....

Robbins Vs. Shelby County Taxing District

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the due quality and measure of products and commodities; the passage of laws to regulate or restrict the sale of articles deemed injurious to the health or morals of the community; the imposition of taxes upon persons residing within the state or belonging to its population, and upon avocations and employments pursued therein, not directly connected with foreign or interstate commerce, or with some other employment or business exercised ..... supreme court of tennessee was as to the constitutionality of the act which imposed the tax on drummers, and the court decided that it was constitutional and ..... to say that the tax, if invalid as against drummers from other states, operates as a discrimination against the drummers of tennessee, against whom it is conceded to be valid, is no argument, because the state is not bound to tax its own drummers, and if it does so, while having no power to tax those of other states, it acts of its own free will, ..... 498 a new orleans merchant cannot be taxed there for ordering goods from london or new york, because, in the one case, it is an act of foreign, and, in the other, of interstate, commerce, both of ..... engaged in the act of drumming for said firm, and for the claimed offense of not having taken out the required license for doing said business, the defendant, sabine robbins, was arrested by one of the memphis or taxing district police force ..... tax would apply equally as well to the principal as to his agent, and to a single act of sale as to a hundred acts .....

Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. Vs. Pennsylvania

Court : US Supreme Court

..... through and over any portion of the public domain of the united states, over and along any of the military or post roads of the united states, which had been or might thereafter be declared such by act of congress, and over, under, or across the navigable streams or waters of the united states," upon certain conditions specified therein, and this court held that the telegraph, as an agency of commerce and intercommunication ..... to the court of common pleas of dauphin county on the ground, among others, that the said 16th section of the revenue act is in conflict with the clause of the constitution of the united states declaring that "congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states," article i, section 8, clause 3, and also with the clause declaring that "the citizens of each state shall be entitled ..... treasurer are hereby authorized to settle and have collected an account against any company violating the provisions of this section for the amount of such license fee, together with a penalty of fifty percentum for failure to pay the same, provided that no license shall be necessary for any corporation paying a tax under any previous section of this act, or whose capital stock, or a majority thereof, is owned or controlled page 125 u. s. ..... , lawful in the state of its creation, that other states may be willing to admit within their jurisdiction, or consent that it have offices in them -- such, for example, as a corporation for lotteries. .....

Veach Vs. Rice

Court : US Supreme Court

..... strengthening the existing security," but that when the second or subsequent bond is given for a new and different undertaking, it operates ipso facto as a discharge of the prior parties, and hence that when the provisions of the act are fully complied with the sureties on the first bond are discharged from all further liability on account of their principal ..... there are more than one, the trust remains in the hands of the other, "and with him, as to an administrator de bonis non, the removed co-administrator must account" ( 2514), and his sureties are "liable for his acts in connection with his trust, up to the time of his settlement with an administrator de bonis non or the distributees of the estate" ( 2512) ..... . in all cases of removal of an administrator for any cause, the sureties on his bond are liable for his acts in connection with his trust, up to the time of his settlement with an administrator de bonis non, or the distributees of the estate ..... . 432, the second section of an act of 1812 came under consideration, which read as follows: "any executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, or guardian whose residence may be changed from one county to another either by the creation of a new county, removal, or otherwise, shall have the privilege of making the annual returns required of them by this act to the court of ordinary of the county in which they reside, by having previously obtained a copy of all the records concerning the estates .....

In Re Baiz

Court : US Supreme Court

..... or inhabitant of the united states, "in the service of a public minister," and the process is founded upon a debt contracted before he entered upon such service; nor shall the preceding section apply to any case where the person against whom the process is issued is a "domestic servant of a public minister," unless the name of the servant has been registered and posted as therein prescribed. ..... temporary leave of absence, duly granted to him, and that from on or about that day down to on or about the 10th day of july, 1889, this defendant became and was the acting minister and sole representative of the said republic of guatemala in the place, and during the absence, of the said envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, and was exclusively in charge of the diplomatic affairs ..... and by reason of the facts herein alleged, this defendant claims that this court has no jurisdiction of this action, and that if any jurisdiction for said act in fact exists in any court, it is vested solely in the supreme court of the united states, pursuant to the provisions of the constitution and the statutes of ..... commencement of the action, and until and including the 10th day of july, 1889, which was the eighth day after service of process upon him, he was "the acting minister and sole representative of said republic [of guatemala] in the united states," and for that reason came within the words ..... sections 4062, 4063, 4064, and 4065 were originally sections 25, 26, 27, and 28 of the crimes act .....

Texas and Pacific Railway Co. Vs. City of Marshall

Court : US Supreme Court

..... pacific railway company three hundred thousand dollars in the bonds of said county, payable in gold coin, having thirty years to run, and bearing seven percentum interest per annum, and to levy a tax in the manner required by said act, to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, upon the condition that said company shall establish its eastern terminus and texas office at the city of marshall, and ..... to be enforced in the future under the eye of a court of chancery, against the public interest, and perhaps manifestly to the prejudice and injury of the railroad company, exercising to some extent the public function authorized by the acts of congress or of the legislature of texas, present difficulties far more formidable than the action at law. ..... the city of marshall will procure said land by issuing its bonds in accordance with the provisions of the act of the legislature of texas already referred to, which bonds will be used in the purchase of said land ..... office at the city of marshall, and shall locate and construct at said city its main machine shops and car works, thereby securing at said city connections with said terminus provided for by the act incorporating said texas and pacific railway company and ..... shall locate and construct at said city its main machine shops and car works, thereby securing at said city the connections with said terminus provided for by the act incorporating said texas and pacific railway company and .....

R Vs. R

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1891)ILR14Mad88

..... 135 a month was made payable to the petitioner, was framed upon the supposition that, in calculating the nett income of a husband as required by section 36 of the divorce act, there should be deducted, from his monthly receipts, all sums expended on his children or in liquidation of his debts.6. ..... with regard to the so-called adjournment of the suit, we are of opinion that the order is not one made under section 156 of the code, cited by the learned counsel. ..... in our opinion it is an entire mistake to suppose that the phrase 'nett income' in the act has any other meaning than that which it ordinarily bears. ..... 1,600 per mensem after deducting income-tax and the contribution to pension and annuity fund. ..... ' ordinarily with an official drawing a fixed salary and having no other means, that expression would be taken to mean the amount of his salary minus deductions on account of income-tax, charges for a pension fund, and the like; and, in our judgment, that is the sense in which nett income is to be understood in dealing with a case under the divorce act.7. ..... 1,600, the maximum alimony which under the act we could allot would be about rs. .....

Solomons Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 343 of the secretary of the treasury under the general powers conferred by the second section of the act of july 11, 1862, 12 stat. ..... that bureau was not one created by any special act of congress, but was established by order page 137 u. s. ..... clark had filed an application for a patent, the commissioner of internal revenue adopted the stamp as the one to be used in the collection of the tax on whiskey and distilled spirits. ..... 344 given special charge of the tax on whiskey and distilled spirits. ..... immediately after the enactment of the act 20th july, 1868, 15 stat. ..... clark was acting in his official capacity, as chief of the bureau of engraving and printing, and it was not understood or intimated that the stamp which he was to devise would be patented or become his personal property." "ii. .....