Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 22

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Page 68 - The legislature shall pass general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this section, and for all other cases which in its judgment may be provided for by general laws.
Page 401 - ... and the net proceeds of the separate estate of each partner shall be appropriated to pay his separate creditors...
Page 275 - That as soon as said assignee is appointed and qualified, the judge, or, where there is no opposing 'interest, the register, shall, by an instrument under his hand, assign and convey to the assignee all the estate, real and personal, of the bankrupt, with all his d^eeds, books, and papers relating thereto...
Page 280 - Senators present concur ; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States...
Page 352 - ... the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal of the debt; but in this too much has been conceded.
Page 527 - ... a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 121 - ... in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.
Page 449 - ... by law from the payment of such cost, there shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying, selecting, and conveying the same by the said company or persons in interest.
Page 172 - ... the sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance shall be void, and the assignee may recover the property, or the value thereof, as assets of the bankrupt.
Page 20 - December, 1840, which is in substance one of the prayers refused by the court, viz. : "if plaintiffs paid the amount of said prize, under the belief that said ticket had been fairly drawn, the plaintiffs cannot recover.

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