The American Law Register, Volume 2; Volume 11D.B. Canfield & Company, 1863 |
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... resident of the State , are not exempt from taxation under State laws , if no unfriendly discrimination to the United States , as borrowers , is applied by the State law ; and property in United States stock is subjected to no greater ...
... resident of the State , are not exempt from taxation under State laws , if no unfriendly discrimination to the United States , as borrowers , is applied by the State law ; and property in United States stock is subjected to no greater ...
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... resident of the State may be taxed with other personal estate . II . That the Act of Congress of February , 1862 , exempting such stocks from taxation is valid , so far as relates to all stocks , bonds , and other securities issued by ...
... resident of the State may be taxed with other personal estate . II . That the Act of Congress of February , 1862 , exempting such stocks from taxation is valid , so far as relates to all stocks , bonds , and other securities issued by ...
Page 147
... residence " in the Constitution is the same as domicil - a word which means the place where a man establishes his abode , makes the seat of his pro- perty , and exercises his civil and political rights . 8. The right of a soldier to ...
... residence " in the Constitution is the same as domicil - a word which means the place where a man establishes his abode , makes the seat of his pro- perty , and exercises his civil and political rights . 8. The right of a soldier to ...
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... residence was reduced from two years to one , and the words requiring a residence in the election district 152 CHASE vs. MILLER .
... residence was reduced from two years to one , and the words requiring a residence in the election district 152 CHASE vs. MILLER .
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... residence in an election district , and is to offer his ballot in that district . The second section of this article requires all popular elections to be by ballot . To " offer to vote " by ballot , is to present oneself , with proper ...
... residence in an election district , and is to offer his ballot in that district . The second section of this article requires all popular elections to be by ballot . To " offer to vote " by ballot , is to present oneself , with proper ...
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Page 228 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Page 340 - ex majore cautela" and in anticipation of such astute objections, passing an act "approving, legalizing, and making valid all the acts, proclamations, and orders of the President, &c., as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States.
Page 231 - That the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds...
Page 756 - The general government, and the States, although both exist within the same territorial limits, are separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres. The former in its appropriate sphere is supreme; but the States within the limits of their powers not granted, or, in the language of the Tenth Amendment, "reserved," are as independent of the general government as that government within its sphere is independent of the States.
Page 231 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 338 - The Constitution confers on the President the whole executive power. He is bound to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. He is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States. He has no power to initiate or declare a war, either against a foreign nation or a domestic State.
Page 616 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; but does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Page 231 - And any attachment of the goods or estate of the defendant, by the original process, shall hold the goods or estate so attached to answer the final judgment, in the same manner as by the laws of such State they would have been holden to answer final judgment, had it been rendered by the court in which the suit was commenced.
Page 339 - WHEREAS we are happily at peace with all sovereigns, powers, and states : And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America...
Page 41 - If the states may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government.