United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1892 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... limit this act of 1886 to the constitutional limitations of Congress , when the purpose of the law is that it be unlimited and unrestricted . If this act be good , there is no limit to the power of Congress in the regulation of commerce ...
... limit this act of 1886 to the constitutional limitations of Congress , when the purpose of the law is that it be unlimited and unrestricted . If this act be good , there is no limit to the power of Congress in the regulation of commerce ...
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... limits it to that which is in some manner connected with foreign nations or among the several States , or with the Indian tribes . 9 Wheat . 1 , 197 . In the Passenger Cases , 7 How . 283 , 400 , Mr. Justice McLean says : " If Congress ...
... limits it to that which is in some manner connected with foreign nations or among the several States , or with the Indian tribes . 9 Wheat . 1 , 197 . In the Passenger Cases , 7 How . 283 , 400 , Mr. Justice McLean says : " If Congress ...
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... limits the liability of ship owners was passed in amendment of the maritime law of the country , and the power to make such amendments is coexten- sive wich that law . It is not confined to the boundaries or class of subjects which limit ...
... limits the liability of ship owners was passed in amendment of the maritime law of the country , and the power to make such amendments is coexten- sive wich that law . It is not confined to the boundaries or class of subjects which limit ...
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... limits of maritime law under the disposal and regulation of the several States , as that would have defeated the uni- formity and consistency at which the Constitution aimed on all subjects of a commercial character affecting the ...
... limits of maritime law under the disposal and regulation of the several States , as that would have defeated the uni- formity and consistency at which the Constitution aimed on all subjects of a commercial character affecting the ...
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... limits of the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction are matters of judicial cognizance , and cannot be affected or controlled by legislation , whether state or national . Chief Justice Taney , in The St. Lawrence , 1 Black , 522 , 526 ...
... limits of the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction are matters of judicial cognizance , and cannot be affected or controlled by legislation , whether state or national . Chief Justice Taney , in The St. Lawrence , 1 Black , 522 , 526 ...
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Page 644 - ... board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage or injury by collision, or for any act, matter or thing, loss, damage or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 487 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 84 - ... have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 331 - States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed...
Page 3 - The power of congress, then, comprehends navigation within the limits of every State in the Union, so far as that navigation may be, in any manner, connected with " commerce with foreign nations, or among the several States, or with the Indian tribes.
Page 110 - the rule for jurisdiction is that nothing shall be intended to be out of the jurisdiction of a superior court but that which specially appears to be so, and, on the contrary, nothing shall be intended to be within the jurisdiction of an inferior court but that which is so expressly alleged;" and this rule has been so frequently repeated as to have become a maxim in the law.
Page 251 - No right Is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law. than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or Interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.
Page 392 - No person or corporation shall, directly or indirectly, take or receive any money, goods or things in action, or in any other way, any greater sum or greater value for the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or things in action, than is above prescribed.
Page 704 - And when the writing itself upon its face is couched in such terms as import a complete legal obligation without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of the engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, were reduced to writing.
Page 112 - Except as to crimes the punishment of which is expressly provided for in this title the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of crimes committed in any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian country.