Pittsburgh Reports, Volume 2Boyd Crumrine J. Campbell, 1872 |
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Page 41
... payment of debts , the rebuilding and improvement , changes and repairs on the church edifice , and payment of the pastor , to raise additional amounts to that which would accrue from the assessment of six per cent . , according to the ...
... payment of debts , the rebuilding and improvement , changes and repairs on the church edifice , and payment of the pastor , to raise additional amounts to that which would accrue from the assessment of six per cent . , according to the ...
Page 50
... pay the sum of forty - five hundred dollars , with the penalty of one per cent . per month thereon , from and after the ... payment was pleaded . On this issue the cause was tried on the 21st September , 1857 , and a verdict and judgment ...
... pay the sum of forty - five hundred dollars , with the penalty of one per cent . per month thereon , from and after the ... payment was pleaded . On this issue the cause was tried on the 21st September , 1857 , and a verdict and judgment ...
Page 60
... payments on such terms and in such manner as may be agreed upon by said company and the proper county , " confers , by such provision , full authority upon the county to issue coupon bonds in payment of such subscription . 2. All doubts ...
... payments on such terms and in such manner as may be agreed upon by said company and the proper county , " confers , by such provision , full authority upon the county to issue coupon bonds in payment of such subscription . 2. All doubts ...
Page 63
... payment of said stock , making the conditions such as will best promote the interest of said railroad company and the county of Lawrence . 1. As to the authority to the officers of the county to make subscription to the stock of the ...
... payment of said stock , making the conditions such as will best promote the interest of said railroad company and the county of Lawrence . 1. As to the authority to the officers of the county to make subscription to the stock of the ...
Page 64
... pay- ment of interest half yearly , if the legislature so intended . That the power " to make payment on such terms and in such manner " may be satisfied , in many ways , without such an expansive con- struction as has been given to it ...
... pay- ment of interest half yearly , if the legislature so intended . That the power " to make payment on such terms and in such manner " may be satisfied , in many ways , without such an expansive con- struction as has been given to it ...
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Page 462 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in a doubtful case.
Page 455 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 167 - ... a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state or territory from whence the person so charged has fled...
Page 517 - July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,' there shall be levied, collected, and paid, for and in respect of the several bonds, debentures, or certificates of stock and of indebtedness, and other documents, instruments, matters, and things mentioned and described in Schedule A of this...
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Page 247 - ... no patent shall be held to be invalid by reason of such purchase, sale, or use prior to the application for a patent as aforesaid, except on proof of abandonment of such invention to the public ; or that such purchase, sale, or prior use has been for more than two years prior to such application for a patent.
Page 505 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 361 - That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident or presumption great...
Page 505 - ... the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction...
Page 437 - The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary to, constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. A war may exist where one of the belligerents claims sovereign rights as against the other.