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... reported on page * 110 , which should be noted in the margin of that book . After the argument for the appel- lants ( the trustees under the first assignment ) was closed , the Court volunteered the statement that the rule , now stated ...
... reported on page * 110 , which should be noted in the margin of that book . After the argument for the appel- lants ( the trustees under the first assignment ) was closed , the Court volunteered the statement that the rule , now stated ...
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... Reports ; assisted by Edwin A. Pratt , of the Louisville Bar . San Francisco : Bancroft - Whitney Co. , 1888 . Personally we do not like the " get up " of what is called the " pony " series . It may be the result of old foginess , but ...
... Reports ; assisted by Edwin A. Pratt , of the Louisville Bar . San Francisco : Bancroft - Whitney Co. , 1888 . Personally we do not like the " get up " of what is called the " pony " series . It may be the result of old foginess , but ...
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... reported from time to time , he feels safe in the assertion that the increase of supply is equal to all demands , so far as numbers are concerned . An average of one lawyer to every one thousand inhabitants at first thought might seem a ...
... reported from time to time , he feels safe in the assertion that the increase of supply is equal to all demands , so far as numbers are concerned . An average of one lawyer to every one thousand inhabitants at first thought might seem a ...
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... reports of cases , that thrust themselves in upon us in " pale , sickly calf " at the rate of five or six volumes a year , at as many dollars respectively per volume , the lawyer of one book who can sustain his text is to be commended ...
... reports of cases , that thrust themselves in upon us in " pale , sickly calf " at the rate of five or six volumes a year , at as many dollars respectively per volume , the lawyer of one book who can sustain his text is to be commended ...
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... reports on agriculture , geology , mining , railroads and canals , banks , insu- rance , schools , health , charities , labor , and the like , are desired . Duplicates will bring an equiva- lent in exchanges with other libra- ries ...
... reports on agriculture , geology , mining , railroads and canals , banks , insu- rance , schools , health , charities , labor , and the like , are desired . Duplicates will bring an equiva- lent in exchanges with other libra- ries ...
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Page 85 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 84 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 12 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
Page 162 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. "For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Page 210 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 86 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 399 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 15 - A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases the punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense.
Page 363 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.
Page 12 - A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential ; and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him.