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..... he had on board, and one which he had preserved through the war, at the hazard of his life or liberty, before he was captured." "that when boarded he told the officer why his vessel was in this predicament and demanded protection for himself and property, but was seized as prize. " "that he answered the interrogatories put to ..... establish the negative. "property cases, where the rights of third persons shall have intervened," are excluded in terms by the proclamation. the proclamation is founded upon the act of july 17, 1862, and has reference only to property subject to confiscation as there denounced. both the statute and proclamation are wholly silent as to maritime captures ..... by the secretary of the treasury to the attorney general, who objected to it to that officer "that it contained no allegation so as to bring it within the act of july 13, 1861, that the cargo was proceeding, when captured, from a revolted state into other parts of the united states. " the requisite words, indicated .....
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..... of the united states" where other provision had not been made. and it authorized any person injured in person or property on account of any act done "under any law of the united states for the protection of the revenue or the collection of duties on imports" to maintain suit in the circuit court. it also allowed any person sued in a ..... duties or taxes under such laws should be entitled to all the exemptions, immunities, benefits, rights, and privileges therein enumerated or conferred. [ footnote 7 ] undoubtedly the original act was passed for the protection of officers of the revenue and persons acting under them charged by law with the collection of import duties, and the first proviso in the sixty-seventh section of the .....
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..... purpose of signing and endorsing the blank bills of exchange. kirby stated that they were signed and endorsed before the absconding of true, to enable himself to protect the circulation of the company. another witness said that they were signed and endorsed after that event, at the suggestion of kirby, to relieve mcmahon from ..... in operation, was valid. we think this construction of the statute of tennessee too narrow. the intention of the act was declared by its title. it was an act to suppress private banking. its object was the protection of the people against the evils of an unauthorized currency -- than which hardly any object of legislation is more ..... to issue any bills or notes for the purpose of erecting, establishing, or putting in operation any banking institution, association, or concern. in january, 1856, this act being in force, several persons, of whom one richard m. kirby seems to have been the principal, undertook to establish a banking association or company in memphis, .....
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..... under a recorded deed, and had paid the taxes and cultivated the land for that length of time. the limitation of three years now under consideration was intended to protect settlers under junior grants emanating from the state of texas against older titles under the former mexican sovereignty, as well as a fraudulent issue of head right certificates or land ..... defect, " &c.; now this case shows no such "chain of title or transfer from the sovereignty" as to constitute either title or color of title. as defined by the act, a link in the chain is absent which is necessary to make the whole one chain. it is not merely a defect or flaw in some link in the chain ..... or land scrip, with a chain of transfer down to him, her or them in possession, and provided this section shall not bar the right of the government." with this act in force, atchison brought suit against league to recover a lot of ground in galveston. on the trial, it appeared that both parties claimed title under the directors of the .....
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..... the united states, or in any of their territories, or under the united states, shall thereafter have sought or received, under claim of alienage, the protection of any foreign government, through any consul or other officer thereof, in order to secure exemption from military duty in the militia of this state, or ..... past conduct is punishment, and can be in no other wise defined. punishment not being, therefore, restricted, as contended by counsel, to the deprivation of life, liberty, or property, but also embracing deprivation or suspension of political or civil rights, and the disabilities prescribed by the provisions of the missouri constitution being ..... comforters, abettors, partakers, confederates, or adherents unto the said" late earl, and certain other parties, who were named, "in his or their false and traitorous acts and purposes, shall in likewise stand, and be attainted, adjudged, and convicted of high treason," and that "the same attainder, judgment, and conviction against the said .....
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..... the defendants from carrying into execution the several provisions of these acts, acts known in common parlance as the "reconstruction acts." both these acts had been passed over the president's veto. the former of the acts, reciting that no legal state governments or adequate protection for life or property now existed in the rebel states of virginia and ..... observes: "i certainly do not claim as belonging to the judiciary the exercise of political power. that belongs to another branch of the government. the protection and enforcement of many rights secured by treaties most certainly do not belong to the judiciary. it is only where the rights of persons or property ..... acts threatened to be committed. page 73 u. s. 77 that these matters, both as stated in the body of the bill and in the prayers for relief, call for the judgment of the court upon political questions and upon rights not of persons or property but of a political character will hardly be denied. for the rights for the protection .....
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..... the united states as being reconstructed. on the contrary, congress passed, in march, 1867, three certain acts known as the reconstruction acts. by the first of these, reciting that no legal state governments or adequate protection for life or property then existed in the rebel states of texas, and nine other states named, and that it ..... the army, and to detail a sufficient military force to enable him to perform his duties and enforce authority within his district. the act made it the duty of this officer to protect all persons in their rights, to suppress insurrection, disorder, violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of ..... states, must be treated as valid or invalid need not be attempted. it may be said, however, that acts necessary to peace and good order among citizens, such, for example, as acts sanctioning and protecting marriage and the domestic relations, governing the course of descents regulating the conveyance and transfer of property, real and personal .....
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..... is fully and plainly, substantially and formally, described to him," nor be "despoiled or deprived of his property, immunities or privileges, put out of the protection of the law, exiled or deprived of his life, liberty or estate, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land [ footnote 10 ]" is answered by the construction which ..... within their jurisdiction. in reference to judges of limited and inferior authority, it has been held page 74 u. s. 536 that they are protected only when they act within their jurisdiction. if this be the case with respect to them, no such limitation exists with respect to judges of superior or general authority. they are ..... and that it was a bold attempt both against the government and justice in general." mr. justice fox, in the case of taaffe v. downes, conceded that the act of the chief justice was illegal, but held that he was not responsible in the action, and observed that without the existence of the principle that a judge administering justice .....
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..... and the courts of the state of iowa, but it involves a principle and rule of property, in our opinion, so just and so essential to the protection of the rights of the bona fide holder of this class of securities that however much we may respect the judgment of those differing from us, we cannot ..... any suit brought to recover the principal or interest of such bonds that the same are usurious, irregular, or invalid in consequence of the informalities cured by this act." the third section reaffirms the validity of all bonds theretofore issued by the county, and the subscriptions to the railroads, notwithstanding any informalities or irregularities in the ..... cure the defects in the proceedings before the county judge in the submission of the question to the voters, which became a law on the 29th january, 1857. this act very comprehensive. after confirming the proceedings in the first section, it declares that "the subscriptions made by said county &c.;, and the bonds of said counties &c .....
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..... after the contract was made, he procured it within the rebel lines. neither the law nor the regulations through which it was administered was intended to protect a speculation of this sort. the purchasing agent had no authority to negotiate even with anyone in relation to the purchase of southern products, unless at the ..... besides the liability of having their principal product -- cotton -- confiscated or destroyed, they were, as is well known, in want of many of the necessaries of life. they were substantially told in the regulations of the treasury department, "if you will bring your cotton within our lines, we will not only not seize it, ..... districts declared in insurrection, whether with each other or with persons being within such insurrectionary districts, but not within our military lines." section 8 of this act provided that the secretary of the treasury might authorize agents "to purchase for the united states any products of states declared in insurrection at such places therein .....
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