Some Account of the Work of Stephen J. Field: As a Legislator, State Judge, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesChauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith 1881 - 527 Seiten |
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... matters fur- nished the material for the most important as well as vio- lent controversies , involving legal questions of the utmost difficulty and magnitude , affecting pecuniary interests to an incalculable amount , and provoking most ...
... matters fur- nished the material for the most important as well as vio- lent controversies , involving legal questions of the utmost difficulty and magnitude , affecting pecuniary interests to an incalculable amount , and provoking most ...
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... , and de- scribed in a previous division of this essay . He exhibited the same power and tendency upon the Bench . They were shown in his constant rejection of ancient common- law dogmas , no matter how firmly settled upon authority 32.
... , and de- scribed in a previous division of this essay . He exhibited the same power and tendency upon the Bench . They were shown in his constant rejection of ancient common- law dogmas , no matter how firmly settled upon authority 32.
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... matter how firmly settled upon authority , which had become outgrown , obsolete , and unfitted for the present condition of society , and in the substitution of more just , consistent , and practical doctrines adapted to the needs of ...
... matter how firmly settled upon authority , which had become outgrown , obsolete , and unfitted for the present condition of society , and in the substitution of more just , consistent , and practical doctrines adapted to the needs of ...
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... matters contained in pages 16 to 38 of the printed volume . I shall , therefore , simply enumerate the leading decisions , arranged in groups according to their subject - matter , which best exhibit his distinctive qualities as a judge ...
... matters contained in pages 16 to 38 of the printed volume . I shall , therefore , simply enumerate the leading decisions , arranged in groups according to their subject - matter , which best exhibit his distinctive qualities as a judge ...
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... Matters of a general interest . — Among the most import- ant of these topics were the following . The powers and liabilities of Municipal Corporations . Certain transactions entered into and acts done by the governing body of San ...
... Matters of a general interest . — Among the most import- ant of these topics were the following . The powers and liabilities of Municipal Corporations . Certain transactions entered into and acts done by the governing body of San ...
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Seite 109 - States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seite 388 - All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Seite 365 - Citizens of the United States visiting or residing in China shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, or exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may there be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation...
Seite 279 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Seite 146 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Seite 109 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Seite 251 - When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.
Seite 258 - Commerce with foreign countries, and among the States, strictly considered, consists in intercourse and traffic, including in these terms navigation, and the transportation and transit of persons and property, as well as the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities.
Seite 258 - If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint ; they may tax...
Seite 260 - It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities of the States, nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxing the means and instrumentalities of that government. In both cases the exemption rests upon necessary implication, and is upheld by the great law of self-preservation; as any government, whose means employed in conducting its operations, if subject to the control of another and distinct...