Commentaries on Law, Embracing Chapters on the Nature, the Source, and the History of Law: On International Law, Public and Private : and on Constitutional and Statutory Law |
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Mr. Monroe , in his message , declared , in addition , that the American continents , by the free and independent conditions which they have assumed and maintained , are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future ...
Mr. Monroe , in his message , declared , in addition , that the American continents , by the free and independent conditions which they have assumed and maintained , are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future ...
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Page 345 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 563 - Looking, then, to the common law, from whence came the right which the Constitution protects, we find that when private property is "affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 588 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 683 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 695 - Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation.
Page 347 - I arose, but that her Majesty's Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries, and of making satisfactory provision for the future, agrees that in deciding the questions between the two countries arising out of those claims the arbitrators should assume that her Majesty's Government had undertaken to act upon the principles set forth in these rules.
Page 563 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 563 - Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens one towards another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.
Page 591 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 667 - To adopt appropriate legislation for correcting the effects of such prohibited State laws and State acts, and thus to render them effectually null, void, and innocuous.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Commentaries on Law, Embracing Chapters on the Nature, the Source, and the History of Law: On International Law, Public and Private : and on Constitutional and Statutory Law Legal classics library Making of modern law Online Access with Subscription: Heinonline |
| Author | Francis Wharton |
| Publisher | Kay & Brother, 1884 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 855 pages |
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