The Most Material Parts of Kent's Commentaries Reduced to Questions and Answers: Upon the Plan and in the Place of Kinne's Kent

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Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1890 - 418 halaman
 

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Halaman 69 - ... by the laws of either of the States or Territories of the United States, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall...
Halaman 355 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Halaman 125 - All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to .be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.
Halaman 117 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Halaman 119 - The constitutional guaranty of freedom of speech and press, which in terms provides that "every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press
Halaman 197 - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Halaman 81 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Halaman 91 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Halaman 10 - In the absence of higher and more authoritative sanctions, the ordinances of foreign States, the opinions of eminent statesmen, and the writings of distinguished jurists, are regarded as of great consideration on questions not settled by conventional law. In cases where the principal jurists agree, the presumption will be very great in favor of the solidity of their maxims ; and no civilized nation, that does not arrogantly set all ordinary law and justice at defiance, will venture to disregard the...
Halaman 165 - It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being.

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