United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 142United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1892 - Courts |
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... executed and delivered . Ninety - nine creditors proved debts in the aggregate sum of $ 829,198.45 , upon which dividends were declared and paid as follows : July 19 , 1872 , ten per cent ; May 12 , 1873 , nine per cent ; April 5 , 1878 ...
... executed and delivered . Ninety - nine creditors proved debts in the aggregate sum of $ 829,198.45 , upon which dividends were declared and paid as follows : July 19 , 1872 , ten per cent ; May 12 , 1873 , nine per cent ; April 5 , 1878 ...
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... execute any instrument , deeds and writings which may be proper to enable the assignee to possess himself fully of all the assets of the bankrupt . " This provision is without any limitation of time . A principle applies similar to that ...
... execute any instrument , deeds and writings which may be proper to enable the assignee to possess himself fully of all the assets of the bankrupt . " This provision is without any limitation of time . A principle applies similar to that ...
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... executed to him by the trustees of the estate of Ira Couch deceased . The bal- ance , $ 2165.72 , was paid at the time in cash through James H. Rice . Upon each of two of the Couch notes due respec- tively on the first days of July and ...
... executed to him by the trustees of the estate of Ira Couch deceased . The bal- ance , $ 2165.72 , was paid at the time in cash through James H. Rice . Upon each of two of the Couch notes due respec- tively on the first days of July and ...
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... execute and deliver a general assignment of all his property and effects . This was done by him November 1 , 1882 ... executed by the trustees of Ira Couch's estate to my order , each of said notes being for the sum of five thou- sand ...
... execute and deliver a general assignment of all his property and effects . This was done by him November 1 , 1882 ... executed by the trustees of Ira Couch's estate to my order , each of said notes being for the sum of five thou- sand ...
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... executed of its judgment against Foote . Pearce alone appealed from the decree . Mr. Huntington W. Jackson for appellant . I. The facts in the pleas of the bank and Pearce to which replications were filed by Rice having been proved ...
... executed of its judgment against Foote . Pearce alone appealed from the decree . Mr. Huntington W. Jackson for appellant . I. The facts in the pleas of the bank and Pearce to which replications were filed by Rice having been proved ...
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Page 367 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 659 - ... and if on such examination there shall be found among such passengers any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 463 - ... may be removed into the Circuit Court of the United States for the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein being non-residents of that State...
Page 177 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States...
Page 227 - Constitution leads to the conclusion that no State has the right to lay a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, and the reason is that such taxation is a burden on that commerce, and amounts to a regulation of it, which belongs solely to Congress.
Page 581 - But the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying. A person so testifying to the giving of a bribe which has been accepted, shall not thereafter be liable to indictment, prosecution, or punishment for that bribery, and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accordingly, in bar of such an indictment or prosecution.
Page 580 - Amendment; and compelling a man "in a criminal case to be a witness against himself," which is condemned In the Fifth Amendment, throws light on the question as to what is an "unreasonable search and seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
Page 498 - The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station...
Page 68 - Each director, when appointed or elected, shall take an oath that he will, so far as the duty devolves on him, diligently and honestly administer the affairs of such association...
Page 351 - Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways.