...that in this Court of Requests there is no taxing officer. It is not a Court either of law or equity in the sense in which those words are used in the act of Parliament. GURNEY, B. — I am of the same opinion. The circumstances of there being no taxing officer...

...contravene the clear policy of the legislature. This contract was not " actually made " in Chicago, in the sense in which those words are used in the act of 1861. It is true, as contended by the counsel for defendants in error, that there was no concurrence...

...certificate of Aguilar. As it is, we reject the claim." Is this rejection a final action on the claim, in the sense in which those words are used in the act of the 26th of May, 1830 ? In pursuing this inquiry, in endeavoring to ascertain the intention of congress,...

...public use. It was perfectly apparent, and we so held, that " the conveyance of persons and property" in the sense in which those words are used in the Act of 1868, would be out of the question, and that the only business to be done on the road was the transportation...

...public use. It was perfectly apparent, and we so held that " the conveyance of persons an ! property" in the sense in which those words are used in the Act of 1868, would be out of the question, and that the only business to be done on the road was the transportation...

...construction of this clause, for it seems plain enough that the original proprietors were never "lot owners" in the sense in which those words are used in the act. The right given the-n hy the act to manage the enterprise at the start, and to eel! lots and take the...

...does not come within either its language or its spirit. Deinzer did not intrude upon the complainant's lands in the sense in which those words are used in the rule, nor did he take the profits of their lands. He entered as the tenant of the person who, for over...

...of low water cannot be regarded as " marsh," nor do we consider that they can be regarded as " tide lands " in the sense in which those words are used in the Act of 1861. The phrase " tide lands," considered as a term of description, is unknown, so far as we are advised,...

...does not fall within the description of " salaries, fees, wages, perquisites, profits, or emoluments " in the sense in which those words are used in the Act. I think, therefore, that the judgment appealed from should be reversed, and that of the Commissioners...

...propose to start their elevated railroad (in Noble Street below Broad) is upon their ' main line,' in the sense in which those words are used in the Act of 1864. Upon that question we are of the opinion that the main line there referred to is the main line...