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... litigation grew out of this act , and there is one case reported in 10th Wendell 163 ; Baldwin vs. Calkins , but no question is made of its constitutionality . Another law of that state entirely analagous to the proposed law , was the ...
... litigation grew out of this act , and there is one case reported in 10th Wendell 163 ; Baldwin vs. Calkins , but no question is made of its constitutionality . Another law of that state entirely analagous to the proposed law , was the ...
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... litigation in Washtenaw county , would , undoubtedly , be a fair proportion , according to its population , for the rest of the State , except the county of Wayne . During the four years preceding and ending February , A. D. 1842 ...
... litigation in Washtenaw county , would , undoubtedly , be a fair proportion , according to its population , for the rest of the State , except the county of Wayne . During the four years preceding and ending February , A. D. 1842 ...
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... litigation in chancery grows , and when a suit in chancery is contested it is hard to say whether it will be finally disposed of in two years or in ten . and whether the costs will be $ 200 or $ 2,000 . But if we estimate the aggregate ...
... litigation in chancery grows , and when a suit in chancery is contested it is hard to say whether it will be finally disposed of in two years or in ten . and whether the costs will be $ 200 or $ 2,000 . But if we estimate the aggregate ...
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... litigation and costs in the two States , in proportion to the population of each . The aggregate expense of all kinds in our own courts of record , both in civil and criminal , including all costs in chancery , we have estimated at ...
... litigation and costs in the two States , in proportion to the population of each . The aggregate expense of all kinds in our own courts of record , both in civil and criminal , including all costs in chancery , we have estimated at ...
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... litigation are still more blighting to the prosperity of the country , than those enormous costs . That if the real damage to the country , from the laws ' delay , were properly estimated in dollars , it would fully equal all other ...
... litigation are still more blighting to the prosperity of the country , than those enormous costs . That if the real damage to the country , from the laws ' delay , were properly estimated in dollars , it would fully equal all other ...
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Page 2 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 47 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book— left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 2 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 1 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers ! for ye lade men with burdens, grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Page 38 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Page 38 - ... all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in, and to the same, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.
Page 11 - Mr. Nesmith, from the committee on judiciary, to whom was referred that portion of the governor's message relating to the erection of a jail, reported they deemed it inexpedient in the present embarrassed condition of finance, to incur the expense of a jail.
Page 3 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Page 38 - ... have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey and confirm...
Page 6 - But if the public interest can be in any way promoted by the taking of private property, it must rest in the wisdom of the legislature to determine whether the benefit to the public will be of sufficient importance to render it expedient for them to exercise the right of eminent domain, and to authorize an interference with the private rights of individuals for that purpose (2 Kent's Com.