Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volumen5;Volumen18Published for John Conrad and Company, 1820 |
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... decree res- titution . It is altogether upon the evidence of Jones , and the test - affidavit of the claimant ... Decree reversed . • DECREE . This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record of the Circuit Court for ...
... decree res- titution . It is altogether upon the evidence of Jones , and the test - affidavit of the claimant ... Decree reversed . • DECREE . This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record of the Circuit Court for ...
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... decree of the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia in this case , condemning the cargo of the ship Venus , be , and the same is , hereby reversed and annulled . And this Court , proceeding to pass such decree as the said Circuit ...
... decree of the Circuit Court for the district of Georgia in this case , condemning the cargo of the ship Venus , be , and the same is , hereby reversed and annulled . And this Court , proceeding to pass such decree as the said Circuit ...
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... decree of condemnation . For the ship and residue of the cargo no claim was interposed . From this decree , as to the hides , there was an appeal by the captors to the Circuit Court , where the same was reversed . The Court , although ...
... decree of condemnation . For the ship and residue of the cargo no claim was interposed . From this decree , as to the hides , there was an appeal by the captors to the Circuit Court , where the same was reversed . The Court , although ...
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... decree of con- demnation was pronounced . " Mr. Webster and Mr. Pitman , for the captors , ar- gued , that it was a well - settled principle in the Prize Court , that the onus probandi , lies on the claimant . " In the Prize Court ...
... decree of con- demnation was pronounced . " Mr. Webster and Mr. Pitman , for the captors , ar- gued , that it was a well - settled principle in the Prize Court , that the onus probandi , lies on the claimant . " In the Prize Court ...
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... Decree reversed . DECREE . This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts , and the farther proof exhibited in this cause , and was argued by ...
... Decree reversed . DECREE . This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts , and the farther proof exhibited in this cause , and was argued by ...
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Página 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.
Página 26 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 226 - ... children and heirs" just referred to. By an act of the congress of Texas, passed January 28, 1840, it was provided as follows: "In making title to land by descent it shall be no bar to a party that any ancestor through whom he derives his descent from the intestate is or hath been an alien...
Página 78 - Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason.
Página 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...
Página 13 - ... if any seaman shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder and prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship ; every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be a pirate and felon, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer death...
Página 96 - The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest.
Página 79 - ... the trial of crimes committed on the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may first be brought.