Introduction to American Law: Designed as a First Book for Students

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Little, Brown, and Company, 1882 - 816 páginas
 

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Improvement suggested
539
LECTURE XXXV
540
Crimes affecting the public welfare
541
394
546
Crimes affecting private persons
548
Crimes affecting private property
559
308
564
as to weights and measures
570
Treason and other crimes against the general welfare
575
Crimes committed in places of exclusive federal juris diction
578
Crimes against the revenue laws
579
against the postoffice regulations
580
against foreign nations 202
581
by federal officers
582
THE LAW OF PROCEDURE LECTURE XXXVII
584
Redress by suit
587
Actions
588
395
593
Analysis of wrongs and remedies
600
311
607
397
609
445
611
Pleading
623
Trial
641
Judgment
660
Execution
664
Survivorship of actions
667
Forms of conveyance 399
669
LECTURE XXXVIII
675
Bill
679
Subpoena
682
Appearance and defence
683
Demurrer
684
Plea
686
Formalities of a deed 405
698
Parties to a deed 415
708
Form of a deed 429
713
LECTURE XXXIX
720
LECTURE XL
727
312
744
588
746
INTERNATIONAL
754
Proprietary rights
760
Diplomatic rights
762
Commercial rights
765
Belligerent rights
766
Neutral rights
771
Незал LECTURE XLII
773
As to the law of persons
774
As to the law of property
778
As to the law of crimes
779
As to the law of procedure
780
LECTURE XLIII
782
Proposed constitutional amendments
784
Proposed extension of the civil code
785
as to State acts and records
786
Proposed changes in the law of property
788
Proposed changes in the law of crimes
790
Ways and means of professional success
792
600
797
660
798
664
799
479
800
314
804
510
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512
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Página 469 - ... unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Página 116 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Página 123 - that the laws of the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Página 215 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Página 116 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the states, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other states or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Página 223 - That all courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.
Página 540 - ... 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.
Página 210 - Private property shall ever be held inviolate, but subservient to the public welfare. When taken in time of war, or other public exigency, imperatively requiring its immediate seizure, or for the purpose of making or repairing roads, which shall be open to the public, without charge, a compensation shall be made to the owner, in money, and in all other cases where private property shall be taken for public use, a compensation therefor shall...
Página 227 - Thus I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Página 5 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

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