Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 5 ;Volume 18Published for John Conrad and Company, 1820 |
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... father would have been entitled to had he lived or fallen in the service , & c . Here , if the heir took quasi heir , the debts of his ancestor might sweep the gift away . The differ- ence between pay and bounty cannot well be over ...
... father would have been entitled to had he lived or fallen in the service , & c . Here , if the heir took quasi heir , the debts of his ancestor might sweep the gift away . The differ- ence between pay and bounty cannot well be over ...
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... father who is dead , before the commencement of the statute itself , would be unjustifiable . The principle of the law is , that after marriage , the father , if he pleases , may render his children legitimate . Legiti- mation , in this ...
... father who is dead , before the commencement of the statute itself , would be unjustifiable . The principle of the law is , that after marriage , the father , if he pleases , may render his children legitimate . Legiti- mation , in this ...
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... father , willing to soothe his wife , and make the best of his case , might be brought to say Sullivant . that her children , born before their marriage , were his , at a time when such acknowledgment would have no legal effect whatever ...
... father , willing to soothe his wife , and make the best of his case , might be brought to say Sullivant . that her children , born before their marriage , were his , at a time when such acknowledgment would have no legal effect whatever ...
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... father , after the 1st of January , 1787. But this is said to be nothing more than an obiter dictum of Judge Roane . But we regard it as the reasoning of the Court , given by the only Judge who gave any reason for the decision . A ...
... father , after the 1st of January , 1787. But this is said to be nothing more than an obiter dictum of Judge Roane . But we regard it as the reasoning of the Court , given by the only Judge who gave any reason for the decision . A ...
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... father's recognition . " This legitimation was the subject of the famous proceeding at the par- liament of Merton . The ecclesiastics there demand- ed , that the marriage of the parent should legitimate the children ; to which the ...
... father's recognition . " This legitimation was the subject of the famous proceeding at the par- liament of Merton . The ecclesiastics there demand- ed , that the marriage of the parent should legitimate the children ; to which the ...
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Page 95 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.
Page 26 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Page 422 - Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution...
Page 95 - It is a modification of the ancient maxim, and amounts to this: that, though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.
Page 96 - To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute because it is of equal atrocity, or of a kindred character with those which are enumerated.
Page 379 - When a great river is the boundary between two nations or states, if the original property is in neither, and there be no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. But when, as in this case, one State is the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river within its own domain, and the newly created State extends to the river only.
Page 115 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen...
Page 99 - that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 328 - Smith, cashier of the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States at Washington, to be paid in liquidation of a balance due from the said Mechanics...
Page 18 - But the extension of the judicial power of the United States to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction must necessarily be understood with some limitation.