United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 291United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1934 - Courts |
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... statute gives it to the trustee , not to the bankrupt or his creditors . A judgment of dis- missal , as prayed by the petitioners , would have dissolved the attachment and thus would have enabled the bankrupt to cut off the privilege ...
... statute gives it to the trustee , not to the bankrupt or his creditors . A judgment of dis- missal , as prayed by the petitioners , would have dissolved the attachment and thus would have enabled the bankrupt to cut off the privilege ...
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... statute be construed to impose an inheritance tax upon the paintings merely because they were temporarily within the Commonwealth at the time of the decedent's death , it is unconstitutional as depriving the appellant of property ...
... statute be construed to impose an inheritance tax upon the paintings merely because they were temporarily within the Commonwealth at the time of the decedent's death , it is unconstitutional as depriving the appellant of property ...
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... statute of the State , the form of a suit at law , and was thenceforth subject to its ordinary rules and incidents . The point in issue was the compensation to be made to the owner of the land ; in other words , the value of the ...
... statute of the State , the form of a suit at law , and was thenceforth subject to its ordinary rules and incidents . The point in issue was the compensation to be made to the owner of the land ; in other words , the value of the ...
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... statute suggests a restraint upon its meaning . To know whether liability has been barred by limitation it will not do to refer to the flight of time alone . The limitation may have been postponed by force of a simple waiver , which ...
... statute suggests a restraint upon its meaning . To know whether liability has been barred by limitation it will not do to refer to the flight of time alone . The limitation may have been postponed by force of a simple waiver , which ...
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... statute provides that no suit or proceeding shall be begun for the collection of the tax after the expiration of five years succeeding the filing of the return " unless both the Commissioner and the taxpayer consent in writing to a ...
... statute provides that no suit or proceeding shall be begun for the collection of the tax after the expiration of five years succeeding the filing of the return " unless both the Commissioner and the taxpayer consent in writing to a ...
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Page 213 - Provided, That no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
Page 1 - That all levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens, obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt...
Page 222 - Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 105 - Even so, they are not of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty. To abolish them is not to violate a "principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.
Page 501 - So far as the requirement of due process is concerned, and in the absence of other constitutional restriction, a State is free to adopt whatever economic policy may reasonably be deemed to promote public welfare, and to enforce that policy by legislation adapted to its purpose.
Page 521 - But neither property rights nor contract rights are absolute ; for government cannot exist if the citizen may at will use his property to the detriment of his fellows, or exercise his freedom of contract to work them harm. Equally fundamental with the private right is that of the public to regulate it in the common interest.
Page 615 - In respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which euch receiver or manager was appointed...
Page 501 - It is clear that there is no closed class or category of businesses affected with a public interest, and the function of courts in the application of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is to determine in each case whether circumstances vindicate the challenged regulation as a reasonable exertion of governmental authority or condemn it as arbitrary or discriminatory. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations, 262 US 522, 535. The phrase "affected with a public interest...
Page 148 - It being understood that all the water communications and all the usual portages along the line from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods, and also Grand Portage, from the shore of Lake Superior to the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open to the use of the citizens and subjects of both countries.
Page 184 - ... there shall be included in computing the net income of each beneficiary his distributive share, whether distributed or not, of the net income of the estate or trust for the taxable year...