United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 287

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Page 464 - No gain or loss shall be recognized if property is transferred to a corporation by one or more persons solely in exchange for stock or securities in such corporation, and immediately after the exchange such person or persons are in control of the corporation...
Page 463 - Mother corporation) or (B) a transfer by a corporation of all or a part of its assets to another corporation if immediately after the transfer the transferor, or its stockholders, or both, are in control of the corporation to which the assets are transferred ; or (C) a recapitalization or (D) a mere change in identity, form or place of organization however effected. (2) The term "a party to a reorganization...
Page 530 - This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those States which enact it.
Page 275 - ... injury the personal representative of such seaman may maintain an action for damages at law with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States conferring or regulating the right of action for death in the case of railway employees shall be applicable. Jurisdiction in such actions shall be under the court of the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which his principal office is located.
Page 241 - The Supreme Court and the district courts shall have power to issue writs of scire facias. The Supreme Court, the circuit courts of appeals, and the district courts shall have power to issue all writs not specifically provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.
Page 372 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 552 - That in the case of mines, oil and gas wells, discovered by the taxpayer, on or after. March 1, 1913, and not acquired as the result of purchase of a proven tract or lease...
Page 79 - Third. If in package form, the quantity of the contents be not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count...
Page 156 - ... and that if the appellant does not make such payment within thirty days after the filing of the remittitur from the supreme court in the court from which the appeal is taken, judgment may be entered on motion of the respondent, in his favor against the sureties, for such amount, together with the interest that may be due thereon, and the damages and costs which may be awarded against the appellant upon the appeal.
Page 44 - All that it is necessary now to decide, as we do decide, is that in a capital case, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel, and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, feeble-mindedness, illiteracy, or the like it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him as a necessary requisite of due process of law...

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