Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volumer 66-69

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LEXIS Law Pub., 1912
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.

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Side 157 - that the laws of the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Side 273 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Side 273 - The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes shall be levied upon such property as the legislature shall prescribe.
Side 154 - All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act, shall be severally, individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders, to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of capital stock fixed and limited by such company shall have been paid in...
Side 181 - In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...
Side 159 - States,' in those of equity and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity and to courts of admiralty respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law...
Side 157 - States no witness shall be excluded In nuy action on account of color, or In any civil action, because he Is a party to or Interested In the Issue tried. Provided, that In actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians. In which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with or statement by the testator. Intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify...
Side 140 - That the lands hereby granted shall be exclusively applied in the construction of that road for and on account of which such lands are hereby granted, and shall be disposed of only as the work progresses! and the same shall be applied to no other purpose whatsoever...
Side 159 - An act to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio and other banking companies.
Side 159 - ... that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.

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