The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869, Τόμος 5

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Bancroft-Whitney, 1886
 

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Σελίδα 511 - That in all controversies at law respecting property, the ancient mode of trial by jury is one of the best securities of the rig-hts of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable.
Σελίδα 540 - new grant.' since it is an undisputed principle, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversaries.
Σελίδα 367 - ... assigned, granted, or surrendered, unless it be by deed, or note in writing, signed by the party so assigning, granting or surrendering the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, or by act and operation of law.
Σελίδα 508 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Σελίδα 701 - That all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Σελίδα 294 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Σελίδα 407 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Σελίδα 334 - Though the constitution has discarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against religion and morality which have no reference to any such establishment, or to any particular form of government, but are punishable because they strike at the root of moral obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties.
Σελίδα 263 - The very denial of goods to him that has a right to demand them is an actual conversion, and not only evidence of it, as has been holden ; for what is a conversion, but an assuming upon one's self the property and right of disposing of another's goods ? And he that takes upon himself to detain another man's goods from him without cause takes upon himself the right of disposing of them.
Σελίδα 165 - The records and judicial proceedings of the. courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with the certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.

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