 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 pages
...justice can administer no effectual redress ; for, when the terms of a stipulation import a contract, or when either of the parties engages to perform a particular...act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, and not to the judicial, department ; and the legislature must execute the contract, before it can... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 538 pages
...of the legislature, wherever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, when either of the parties engages to per- 199. form a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, ***• not the judicial... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 452 pages
...of the legislature, wherever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, when either of the parties engages to per- 199. form a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, ***• not the judicial... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1870 - 674 pages
...the legislature, whenever it operates of itself, without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...contract before it can become a rule for the court. Id. ibid. TREBLE COSTS. In practice. A rate of costs given in certain actions, consisting, according... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 540 pages
...of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...political, not the judicial department; and the legislature rnjisi execute the contract before it can become a rule for the court. ^f The article under consideration... | |
 | 1880 - 554 pages
...of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...the treaty addresses itself to the political, not to the judicial department; and the Legislature must execute the contract before it cuu become a rule... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1871 - 918 pages
...the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But, when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...contract before it can become a rule for the court. (Ibid.) By the stipulations of a treaty are to be understood its language and apparent intention, manifested... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1871 - 934 pages
...aid of any legislative provision. But, when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, íTÍien either of the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty undresses itself to the political, not the judicial department; and the legislature must execute the... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1874 - 774 pages
...of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract,...act, the treaty addresses itself to the political and not the judicial department; and the Legislature must execute the contract before it can become... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 pages
...contract, and not a legislative act ; in cases of this kind it addresses itself to the political, not to the judicial department ; and the Legislature must...contract before it can become a rule for the court. \ But there are many other cases where the treaty is to be regarded not as a contract but as a rule... | |
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Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the... 
