 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 684 pages
...utterly unimportant and illusory. The common law would give such judgments precis- ly the same effect. It is manifest however that the constitution contemplated...congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. And we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act of • congress, unless it declares a judgment... | |
 | William Ballantine - Entail - 1829 - 652 pages
...utterly unimportant and illusory. The common law would give such judgment precisely the same effect. It is manifest however that the constitution contemplated...Congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. And we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act of Congress, unless it declares a judgment... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...constitution intended something more than to make the judgments of state courts prima facie evidence only. It contemplated a power in Congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. A judgment is, therefore, conclusive in every other state, if a court of the particular state where... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...explanation, or contradiction, in the courts of every other state ; but that, the Constitution contemplates a power in Congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments ; which power it has exercised by rendering a judgment conclusive when the courts of the particular... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...appointed under the authority of another make the judgments of state courts primafade evidence only. It contemplated a power in congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. (1) A judgment is, therefore, conclusive in every other state, if a court of the particular state where... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 510 pages
...unimportant and F"CH. illusory. The common law would give such judgments precisely the same effect. It is manifest, however, that the constitution contemplated a power in Congress to give a conclusn e effect to such judgments. And we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act of Congress,... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Estoppel - 1872 - 732 pages
...utterly unimportant and illusory. The common law would give such judgments precisely the same effect. It is manifest, however, that the Constitution contemplated...Congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. And we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act of Congress, unless it declares a judgment... | |
 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - Electronic books - 1877 - 1088 pages
...unimportant and illusory. The common law would give precisely the same effect. It is manifest, ho wevei, that the Constitution contemplated a power in Congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments, and we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act of Congress, unless it declares a judgELECTORAL... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...persons and things justly within the range of the proceeding. Bowen v. Johnson, 5 RI 112. It is manifest that the Constitution contemplated a power in Congress to give a conclusive effect to judgments in the State courts, otherwise this clause would be utterly unimportant and illusory. The... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 866 pages
...utterly unimportant and illusory. The common law would give such judgments precisely the same effect. It is manifest however that the constitution contemplated...Congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. And we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act of Congress, unless it declares a judgment... | |
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The common law would give such judgments precisely the same effect. It is manifest, however, that the constitution contemplated a power in congress to give a conclusive effect to such judgments. And we can perceive no rational interpretation of the act... 
