Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Volum 4Callaghan, 1875 |
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Side 426 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Side 444 - ... provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate...
Side 91 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Side 326 - ... if any of said companies shall fail so to do, all the trustees of the company shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company, then existing, and for all that shall be contracted before such report shall be made.
Side 182 - That the Attorney-General, or any District Attorney of the United States in which said property may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the benefit of the United States ; or any person may file an information with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts.
Side 159 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, , or trade, of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons' burthen, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas ; saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is.
Side 187 - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Side 258 - ... on receiving such excess; or he may sell the property, subject to the claim of the creditor thereon, and in either case the assignee and creditor respectively shall execute all deeds and writings necessary or proper to consummate the transaction. If the property is not sold or released, and delivered up, the creditor shall not be allowed to prove any part of his debt.
Side 444 - ... then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable To an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death •hall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Side 109 - ... any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends, or salaries, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever...