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Page 83 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 338 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify.
Page 556 - States; or, being a subject or citizen of a foreign state, and domiciled therein, is in custody for an act done or omitted under any alleged right, title, authority, privilege, protection, or exemption claimed under the commission, or order, or sanction of any foreign state, or under color thereof, the validity and effect whereof depend upon the law of nations; or unless it is necessary to bring the prisoner into court to testify.
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Page 159 - Before this time a petition for the removal of the cause to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nevada had been filed by Herman Shainwald and Ralph L.
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Page 186 - The act of incorporation is to them an enabling act; it gives them all the power they possess ; it enables them to contract, and when it prescribes to them a mode of contracting, they must observe that mode, or the instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated.
Page 590 - ... after the case is decided. When this is not done, it shall be the duty of the marshal to notify the counsel in the case, by mail or otherwise, t See note 28, page clxx.
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| Title | United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ... |
| Author | United States. Supreme Court |
| Publisher | Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1884 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2007 |
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