Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volume 2Gilbert Book Company, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Actions admiralty affirmed Agency alleged allowed amendment amount answer Appeals application arbitrators assignment Att'ys attorney authority award Bank bill of exceptions bond brought cause charge circuit court citation claim client Company complainant considered costs counsel damages decided decision decree defendant directed dismissed district court effect entered equity evidence execution facts filed final finding follows further give given granted ground hearing held interest issue judge judgment jurisdiction jury justice land matter ment motion necessary notice objection opinion original Otto parties peals person plaintiff practice present proceedings proper question reason received record referred refused removed rendered respect reversed rule signed STATEMENT statute sufficient suit supersedeas supreme court taken term tion trial United unless verdict Wall writ of error
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Page 1397 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Page 1402 - States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the supreme Court of the United States...
Page 1306 - It is furthermore hereby provided and mutually agreed, that no suit or action against this company, for the recovery of any claim by virtue of this policy, shall be sustainable in any Court of Law or Chancery until after an award shall have been obtained fixing the amount of such claim in the manner above provided...
Page 1153 - ... the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the state within which such circuit or district courts are held, any rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding,
Page 1062 - It is a doctrine of law too long established to require a citation of authorities that, where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause, and, whether its decision be correct or otherwise, Its judgment, till reversed, Is regarded as binding in every other court...
Page 1384 - Their rights in such cases do not depend upon the actual title or authority of the party with whom they deal directly, but are derived from the act of the real owner, which precludes him from disputing, as against them, the existence of the title or power, which, through negligence or mistaken March, 1886.] WOODSUM v. COLE. 145 confidence, he caused or allowed to appear to be vested in the party making the conveyance.
Page 1222 - ... appeal, such presiding judge may make such rule or order for the safe-keeping, transporting and return of such original papers as to him may seem proper ; and this court will receive and consider such original papers in connection with the transcript of the proceedings.
Page 1290 - It was an action of trespass for breaking and entering the plaintiff's close, situate in the County of Alexandria. The suit was brought in July, 1839. The declaration contained but one count, in the usual form, stating the trespass to have been committed on divers days and times between the 1st of January, 1836, and the commencement of the suit.
Page 974 - ... is only required in an amount sufficient to secure the sum recovered for the use and detention of the property, and the costs of the suit, and just damages for delay, and costs and interest on the appeal.
Page 1440 - The attorney and counsellor being, by the solemn judicial act of the court, clothed with his office, does not hold it as a matter of grace and favor. The right which it confers upon him to appear for suitors, and to argue causes, is something more than a mere indulgence, revocable at the pleasure of the court, or at the command of the legislature. It is a right of which he can only be deprived by the judgment of the court, for moral or professional delinquency.