Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 4

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Published for John Conrad and Company, 1847 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 224 - That suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States, in any case where plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law.
Page 401 - Whenever any patent is inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his own invention or discovery more than he had a right to claim as new, if the error has arisen by inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention...
Page 567 - The preceding section shall not be construed to extend to [crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian...
Page 659 - ... without neglect or fault on his part, having" failed to obtain, from the use and sale of his invention, a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, and expense bestowed upon the same, and the introduction thereof into use...
Page 303 - Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then this obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue in law.
Page 23 - Hotel, and certain desks and tables therein, should constitute the Court for the Correction of Errors of the State of New York.* What else does this bill do ? It directs that there shall be certain vaults, and safes, and rooms.
Page 24 - For laws, without a competent authority to secure their administration from disobedience and contempt, would be vain and nugatory. A power therefore in the supreme courts of justice to suppress such contempts, by an immediate attachment of the offender, results from the first principles of judicial establishments, and must be an inseparable attendant upon every superior tribunal. Accordingly we find it actually exercised as early as the annals of our law extend.
Page 702 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Page 84 - An Act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates upon the subject of roads and canals.
Page 327 - ... shall give bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties...

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