A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity, and Admiralty, of the Courts of the United States: From the Oganization of the Government in 1789 to 1847, in the Supreme, Circuit, District and Admiralty Courts; Reported in Dallas, Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, and Howard's Supreme Court Reports; in Gallison, Mason, Paine, Peters, Washington, Wallace, Sumner, Story, Baldwin, Brockenbrough, and M'Lean's Circuit Court Reports; and in Bees, Ware, Peters, and Gilpin's District and Admiralty Reports, Volume 1Lewis & Blood, 1860 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Common terms and phrases
11 Wheat act of congress action admiralty agent agreement alleged amount appeal assignment assumpsit authority averment Bank Bank of Alexandria bankrupt bill of exchange bottomry bottomry bond capture cargo cause certified chancery charge circuit court claim common law Cond consignee contract court of chancery court of equity Cranch creditor damages debt debtor declaration decree deed defendant discharge district court drawer duties endorser entitled evidence execution fact feme covert fraud Gallis given held holder Ibid judges judgment jurisdiction jury land Lessee liable libel lien Mason's C. C. R. master ment notice opinion owner paid party payment person Peters plaintiff plea pleaded port possession principles proceedings proceeds promise promissory note purchase question received recover rule salvage seamen ship statute suit Sumner's C. C. R. supreme court sureties tion United vessel voyage wages Wash Wheat writ of error writ of right
Popular passages
Page 165 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission...
Page 163 - A final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity...
Page 419 - It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains, and consequently can never be construed to violate neutral rights, or to affect neutral commerce, further than is warranted by the law of nations as understood in this country.
Page 397 - As men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
Page 284 - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Page 199 - The testimony of any witness may be taken in any civil cause depending in a district or circuit court by deposition de bene esse, when the witness lives at a greater distance from the place of trial than one hundred miles...
Page 105 - 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 216 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Page 371 - It is clear, there can be no common law of the United States. The federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent states; each of which may have its local usages, customs and common law. There is no principle which pervades the Union and has the authority of law, that is not embodied in the constitution or laws of the Union.
Page 165 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...