Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Band 5;Band 18Published for John Conrad and Company, 1820 |
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... Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania , in a case where was drawn in question the validity of a statute of that Vor . V .1 1820 . Houston V. Moore . State , on the Holmes, (The United States v ) [LAW OF NATIONS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ] ...
... Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania , in a case where was drawn in question the validity of a statute of that Vor . V .1 1820 . Houston V. Moore . State , on the Holmes, (The United States v ) [LAW OF NATIONS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ] ...
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... statute which formed the ground of controversy in the State court , was passed on the 28th of March , 1814 , and enacts , among other things , ( sec . 21. ) that every non - commissioned officer and private of the militia who shall have ...
... statute which formed the ground of controversy in the State court , was passed on the 28th of March , 1814 , and enacts , among other things , ( sec . 21. ) that every non - commissioned officer and private of the militia who shall have ...
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... statute above referred to . He appeared before the Court Martial , pleaded not guilty , and was in due form sentenced to pay a fine ; for levying of which on his property , he brought an action of trespass in the State Court of Common ...
... statute above referred to . He appeared before the Court Martial , pleaded not guilty , and was in due form sentenced to pay a fine ; for levying of which on his property , he brought an action of trespass in the State Court of Common ...
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... statutes enacted by them , have not intended to compel citizens enrolled in the militia to enter into the actual service of the United States . It is not a conscription ; but a draft , with the option to the individual to be excused ...
... statutes enacted by them , have not intended to compel citizens enrolled in the militia to enter into the actual service of the United States . It is not a conscription ; but a draft , with the option to the individual to be excused ...
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... statute . the person charged , depends section of the act of 1795 . And the criminality of altogether on the 5th The 1st section of the act of 1814 , makes no difference in this particular , inasmuch as it does no more than create a ...
... statute . the person charged , depends section of the act of 1795 . And the criminality of altogether on the 5th The 1st section of the act of 1814 , makes no difference in this particular , inasmuch as it does no more than create a ...
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Seite 95 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.
Seite 26 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Seite 422 - Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution...
Seite 95 - It is a modification of the ancient maxim, and amounts to this: that, though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.
Seite 96 - To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute because it is of equal atrocity, or of a kindred character with those which are enumerated.
Seite 379 - When a great river is the boundary between two nations or states, if the original property is in neither, and there be no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. But when, as in this case, one State is the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river within its own domain, and the newly created State extends to the river only.
Seite 115 - ... 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...
Seite 99 - that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Seite 328 - Smith, cashier of the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States at Washington, to be paid in liquidation of a balance due from the said Mechanics...
Seite 18 - But the extension of the judicial power of the United States to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction must necessarily be understood with some limitation.