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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... judgment being carried by writ of error before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania , the highest court of law or equity of that State , was affirmed ; and the cause was then brought be- fore this Court , under the 25th section of the Ju ...
... judgment being carried by writ of error before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania , the highest court of law or equity of that State , was affirmed ; and the cause was then brought be- fore this Court , under the 25th section of the Ju ...
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... judgment of the Court was delivered at the present term , by Mr. Justice WASHINGTON , who , after stating the facts of the case , proceeded as fol- lows : There is but one question in this cause , and it is , whether the act of the ...
... judgment of the Court was delivered at the present term , by Mr. Justice WASHINGTON , who , after stating the facts of the case , proceeded as fol- lows : There is but one question in this cause , and it is , whether the act of the ...
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... judgment of the Court below , I understand the leading arguments to be the two fol- lowing : 1. That militia men , when called into the service of the United States by the President's orders , communicated either to the executive ...
... judgment of the Court below , I understand the leading arguments to be the two fol- lowing : 1. That militia men , when called into the service of the United States by the President's orders , communicated either to the executive ...
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... judgment of a State Court , in a civil case of concurrent jurisdiction , may be pleaded in bar of an action for the same cause , instituted in a Circuit Court of the United States . Another objection is , that if the State Court Mar ...
... judgment of a State Court , in a civil case of concurrent jurisdiction , may be pleaded in bar of an action for the same cause , instituted in a Circuit Court of the United States . Another objection is , that if the State Court Mar ...
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... judgment of the Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania erroneous on these grounds . Two of the judges are of opinion , that the law in question is unconstitutional , and that the judgment below ought to be reversed . The other judges are of ...
... judgment of the Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania erroneous on these grounds . Two of the judges are of opinion , that the law in question is unconstitutional , and that the judgment below ought to be reversed . The other judges are of ...
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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.