Two Centuries' Growth of American Law, 1701-1901C. Scribner's Sons, 1901 - 538 էջ |
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... England and the United States , and it is upon English foundations that our law has been mainly built . Nor are we indebted merely to the England of our colonial days . For a quarter of a century at least after the Revolu- tion ...
... England and the United States , and it is upon English foundations that our law has been mainly built . Nor are we indebted merely to the England of our colonial days . For a quarter of a century at least after the Revolu- tion ...
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... England being that it should so continue in England and the " Territories thereto belonging . " In behalf of Episcopalians in America , and with the sanction of the Bishop of London , 2 to whose see they were , in a measure , attached ...
... England being that it should so continue in England and the " Territories thereto belonging . " In behalf of Episcopalians in America , and with the sanction of the Bishop of London , 2 to whose see they were , in a measure , attached ...
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... England before taking orders in the church . Palfrey , Hist . of New England , II . 26 . 4 Thomas Lechford of Clement's Inn . See his Note Book , xxi , 182 . 5 Hutchinson's Hist . of Massachusetts , III . 104 . teenth century , but few ...
... England before taking orders in the church . Palfrey , Hist . of New England , II . 26 . 4 Thomas Lechford of Clement's Inn . See his Note Book , xxi , 182 . 5 Hutchinson's Hist . of Massachusetts , III . 104 . teenth century , but few ...
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... England concerning their own charters . These were not matters which they could handle for themselves , and their agents at London were obliged to rely on English counsel . The correspondence , however , between their governors and the ...
... England concerning their own charters . These were not matters which they could handle for themselves , and their agents at London were obliged to rely on English counsel . The correspondence , however , between their governors and the ...
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... England . Long before 1701 , these boards in most of the colonies had been replaced by local legislatures , meeting ... England , from The doings of the original companies , under colonial judg which the British plantations here were ...
... England . Long before 1701 , these boards in most of the colonies had been replaced by local legislatures , meeting ... England , from The doings of the original companies , under colonial judg which the British plantations here were ...
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Էջ 242 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Էջ 500 - And I do hereby also make known, that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding, or abetting hostilities against any of the said powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles, which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations...
Էջ 25 - Council of revision with authority to examine every act of the National Legislature before it shall operate, & every act of a particular Legislature before a Negative thereon shall be final; and that the dissent of the said Council shall amount to a rejection, unless the Act of the National Legislature be again passed, or that of a particular Legislature be again negatived by of the members of each branch.
Էջ 242 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Էջ 279 - Charter of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Church of England, in America...
Էջ 243 - The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city of this State, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of existing debt, shall not in the aggregate exceed in any one year two per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of such county or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section in respect to county or city debt.
Էջ 175 - ... no devise in writing of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, shall be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the same by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his directions and consent...
Էջ 23 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Էջ 141 - suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law.
Էջ 351 - The Constitution of the United States provides that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.